Industry Keyword: Regulation
Media & Content Platforms
Netflix will not add state-run channels to Russian service
Netflix Inc has said that in the current circumstances it has no plans to add state-run channels to its Russian service, despite a regulation that would require the streaming service to distribute state-backed channels.
"Given...
FinTech Platforms
Bitcoin runs into Russian rules and regiments
Bristling tensions and looming laws in Europe could offer clues to two questions: Can bitcoin be a safe-haven asset? And can Russia emerge as a crypto superpower?
The answer to the first, for now at...
Mobile & Infrastructure
FCC nominee does not support US internet rate regulation
President Joe Biden's pick for a seat on the Federal Communications Commission told a US Senate Committee she does not back government regulation of broadband rates.
Gigi Sohn, a former senior aide to Tom Wheeler...
App Stores
Top Joe Biden adviser seen as making tech regulation more likely
Joe Biden's top tech advisor helped craft California's landmark online privacy law and recently condemned a controversial federal statute that protects platforms from accountability, indicators of how a Biden-led government could come down to...
Application Platforms
Where do Trump and Biden stand on tech policy issues?
The CEO's of Facebook and Google were grilled about the regulation of Big Tech by US senators, a hot-button issue before the presidential election on November the 3rd.
Here is a look at the stances...
App Stores
Chinese regulators remove ‘Plague Inc’ game from Apple’s China app store
BEIJING/SHANGHAI - The video game "Plague Inc", which has surged in popularity amid the coronavirus epidemic, has been removed from Apple's China app store after regulators said it contained illegal content, its developer...