Microsoft has joined forces with several news publishers in Europe to call on the EU to adopt Australian-style media arbitration laws.

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Microsoft has joined forces with several news publishers in Europe to call on the EU to adopt Australian-style media arbitration laws.
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The Wall Street Journal has viewed an unredacted version of a 10-state antitrust lawsuit against Google and uncovered some unsettling new details.
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In the wake of Facebook’s public complaints about Apple, the consumer electronics giant has fired back at the baseless claims.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 46 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam have joined forces to accuse Facebook of antitrust violations.
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A new report claims that Facebook and Google will both face multiple federal and state antitrust lawsuits by the end of January 2021.
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Facebook has launched a free cloud gaming service for some reason, and it’s available basically everywhere but Apple’s devices.
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A new report says that European Union regulators have drawn up a “hit list” of the 20 biggest tech companies whose market power it will curb.
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Here is a quick summary of the arguments made against Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, and the recommended solutions.
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A damning House Judiciary Committee report says that Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are monopolies and might need to be broken up.
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With TikTok poised to sell its non-Chinese assets to Microsoft or Oracle, China took steps to intervene in any deal.
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Facebook says that Apple rejected an app update that informed its own customers about Apple’s App Store fees.
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It’s a battle that Microsoft should clearly win. By allowing Oracle to waste $20 billion or more on the controversial TikTok service.
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According to a report, Microsoft originally only wanted to make an investment in TikTok and not a controversial acquisition. But then things got messy.
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As promised, TikTok has sued the U.S. government for attempting to ban its social media app in the United States without due process.
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has weighed in on the antitrust scrutiny facing Big Tech. His take: They all “deserve rude, unfair, and tough questions."
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A more suitable suitor for beleaguered social network TikTok has emerged: According to reports, Twitter has now spoken to the firm about a sale.
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A new report claims that Microsoft is attempting to purchase TikTok’s entire global business and not just its U.S.-based assets.
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A class-action lawsuit involving 20 US-based families claims that TikTok steals private data and sends it to servers in China.
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Multiple reports claim that Microsoft is seriously considering acquiring TikTok, the controversial social networking platform.
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Yesterday, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Google’s Sundar Pichai all testified before Congress.
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Companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google use a strategy called “copy, acquire, kill” to eliminate potential rivals. Sound familiar?
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A Bloomberg report claims that employees warned Twitter about security issues at the service for at least five years to no avail.
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Two separate reports state that Microsoft has stopped advertising on Facebook’s services because it publishes hate speech and misinformation.
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The desktop versions of the Opera web browser now integrate Instagram into the sidebar alongside popular messaging services.
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Facebook's experiments lab releases a new Apple Watch app that lets users communicate with their closest friend from their Watch via Messenger.
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Instagram continues to push IGTV forward, introduces new redesign that adds a Discover tab to help users discover more content and creators on the app.
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Facebook's latest Digital Health feature is a Screen Time-ripoff that allows users to block distractions for a certain period of time everyday and mute all those annoying Facebook notifications.