U.S. Senate passes bill potentially banning TikTok
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill requiring the Chinese owner of TikTok, ByteDance, to sell the app to a U.S.-approved buyer or risk a ban. President Biden has indicated that he will sign the bill to that effect.
The Senate passed the proposal, formally known by the resounding name Protecting Am... Read more
Frontline Ventures invests $200 million in B2B software companies
Frontline Ventures is putting $200 million of capital into two investment funds. This aims to spur European and U.S. business growth.
Frontline Ventures' mission is to help B2B software companies grow globally. Primarily, growth to the U.S. and within Europe are aspired to. The growth should pr... Read more
ASML turmoil drives Netherlands to better EU coordination on exports
The Dutch government will propose better coordination of export restrictions with other EU member states today. Disagreement over the sale of ASML machines has moved the cabinet to take this step.
The proposal will appear in the Dutch House of Representatives today, Bloomberg reports. The desire... Read more
Apple to charge a premium for alternative payment methods in App Store
Apple has relaxed the terms for alternative payment methods for the U.S. version of the App Store. However, developers must pay a high fee to process these payment processes.
Apple has updated the terms for alternative payment methods in the U.S. App Store. It is doing so in response to the cour... Read more
Export restrictions ASML criticized by European Committee on International Trade
The chairman of the European Parliament's International Trade Committee says there must be a reaction to the export restrictions imposed by America on ASML. He argues that the restrictions violate international law. That is why the president wants to see Europe sit down with America.
Since the ... Read more
40 countries will no longer pay for ransomware attack
Companies should no longer pay ransomware gangs to secure their sensitive data. This is the opinion of 40 countries that have united in the recently established International Counter Ransomware Initiative, Reuters writes.
The International Counter Ransomware Initiative, set up by the U.S., wants... Read more
Satya Nadella reasons about origins of market dominance Google Search
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, testified yesterday in the antitrust case against Google Search. Although Google's lawyers tried to use Nadella's testimony to prove Google Search's market dominance is the result of its quality, the CEO defended a different point of view.
The race to AI technol... Read more
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testifies today in Google antitrust case
Today, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, will appear in the public hearing against Google. The CEO will have to elaborate on the discovery talks he had with Apple to get Bing into Apple products.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been summoned in the U.S. antitrust case against Google. The case fil... Read more
Microsoft testifies how difficult it is to get Bing into hardware for a fee
Google does not appear to be the only search engine interested in making its search browser the standard in popular devices for a fee. Microsoft approached Apple to make Bing the default search engine on its Safari browser, but the Bing developer could not afford to do so due to Google Search's dom... Read more
The days of unconstrained growth and bundling seem to be over for Big Tech
Both Google and Amazon's practices are currently under scrutiny in America. Authorities in America and Europe seem to have finally found a way to regulate the power of Big Tech.
A small group of, mainly American tech companies hold too much power. These companies were a long time not inhibited ... Read more