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Tech giants face fine of up to 10% of turnover for EU rule breaches
Tech giants could be fined up to 10% of their annual turnover for violating rules aimed at curbing their power,...
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Google's YouTube, Gmail recover after global outage
Google services, including YouTube, Gmail, and Google Drive, were restored for most users on Monday, following a global outage that...
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Russia had nothing to do with suspected U.S. Treasury email snooping, says Kremlin
Russia had nothing to do with alleged monitoring by hackers of internal email traffic at the U.S. Treasury and Commerce...
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Apple is sued by rival over alleged App Store monopoly
Apple Inc was sued on Thursday by the creator of a once-popular app store that accused the iPhone maker of...
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Facebook says some users facing issues with Messenger, Instagram
Facebook Inc said on Thursday some users were facing issues while sending messages on Messenger, Instagram, and its office collaboration...
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Win, lose or settle: Facebook lawsuits will take years to resolve
Facebook, faced with two major antitrust lawsuits, could be forced to break up, settle with changes to its business, or...
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U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye says it was hacked by a nation-state
FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the United States, said on Tuesday that it had been hacked, likely...
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Resilient European tech startups near record $41 billion investment
European tech startup investment has bounced back from the spring shock of the coronavirus outbreak and is on track to...
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EU sets out search ranking guidelines for Google, Microsoft, platforms
Alphabet unit Google, Microsoft, and other tech giants will have to be more transparent in how they rank online search...
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IBM warns hackers targeting COVID vaccine 'cold chain' supply process
IBM is sounding the alarm over hackers targeting companies critical to the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, a sign that digital...
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U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week
A group of U.S. states led by New York is investigating Facebook Inc for possible antitrust violations and plans to...
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Trump vows defense bill veto unless internet liability shield scrapped
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would veto the $740 billion National Defense Authorization Act unless it includes...
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Amazon delves deeper into voice recognition, call-center work as COVID-19 drives cloud
Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday announced voice recognition as part of a suite of call-center services for businesses, as the company...
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Brazil planemaker Embraer says hackers gained access to company data
Brazilian plane manufacturer Embraer said late on Monday that it had been targeted by hackers, who obtained the "disclosure of...
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Canada plans digital tax in 2022 on global tech giants such as Facebook, Google
Canada plans to impose a tax on corporations providing digital services from 2022 that will stay in place until major...
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Italy's antitrust fines Apple 10 million euros for misleading commercial practices
Italy's antitrust authority said on Monday it had fined Apple 10 million euros ($12 million) for "aggressive and misleading" commercial...
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Britain bans new Huawei 5G kit installation from September 2021
British telecommunications firms must not install new Huawei 5G kit after September 2021, the government said on Monday, as part...
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Suspected North Korean hackers targeted COVID vaccine maker AstraZeneca
Suspected North Korean hackers have tried to break into the systems of British drugmaker AstraZeneca in recent weeks, two people...
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Britain to curb Google and Facebook with tougher competition rules
Britain will impose a new competition regime next year to prevent Google and Facebook using their dominance to push out...
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France orders tech giants to pay digital tax
France's finance ministry has sent out notices to big tech companies liable for its digital service tax to pay the...
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