Tag: EU
German Watchdog Welcomes Google’s “Reject All’ Cookie Plan
Google’s plan to include a “reject all” button on cookie banners after its existing policy violated EU law was welcomed by Hamburg’s top data...
Big Tech Faces 0.1% Fee Under New EU Regs
Major online platforms face a yearly fee up to 0.1% of annual net income to cover the costs of monitoring compliance with new European...
Apple In DMA’s Crosshairs Over Payments
Apple’s latest plan to develop its own payment processing system may test the limits of the recently approved European Digital Markets Act (DMA).
According...
EU Watchdog Goes After Microsoft Cloud
EU antitrust regulators are quizzing Microsoft's rivals and customers about its cloud business and licensing deals, a questionnaire seen by Reuters showed, in a...
EU’s DMA May Face Challenges With Limited Resources
Looming regulations in the EU — specifically through the Digital Markets Act — have raised questions regarding the apparent focus on technology sector giants,...
EU Set To OK Parker’s $8.3b Meggitt Buy
Parker-Hannifin is set to gain EU antitrust clearance for its 6.3 billion pound ($8.3 billion) bid for Britain's Meggitt after offering to sell a US factory...
EU Watchdogs Scrap Qatar Energy Probe
EU antitrust regulators on Friday scrapped their investigation into Qatar Energy after evidence they collected did not confirm their initial concerns.
"Today's closure decision is...
67% Of US Websites Violate EU Data Protection Law: New Study
The European Union has passed several laws aimed at providing digital identity protection, among them the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into...
Mixed Outcomes For KLM & Air France On EU Cartel Decision
Air France-KLM and its Dutch subsidiary KLM on Wednesday lost their challenge against million-euro fines re-imposed by EU antitrust regulators five years ago for...
EU Antitrust Watchdogs Raid Gazprom Offices
Russian gas company Gazprom's offices were raided by EU antitrust regulators, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, as the EU watchdog ramped...