A look at the UK's planned Digital Markets Unit, which will regulate US tech companies under the DMCC, passed in May 2024, and have the power to halt any M&A
and What Trump Must Do About It James Morales / CCN.com : UK Competition Watchdog Vows no ‘Blanket Rules’ for Big Tech Regulation X: Casey Handmer, PhD / @cjhandmer : Hard to believe that any serious ...
The UK CMA's block of Microsoft's Activision deal focuses on the nascent cloud gaming market, confusing analysts as regulators typically focus on mature markets
but that's what tripped up the Activision deal Sean Carey / TrueAchievements : Microsoft inks another 10-year cloud gaming partnership despite CMA setback Sean Hollister / The Verge : Microsoft's Acti...
European Commission proposes legislation mandating USB-C charging for mobile devices, citing electronic waste; Apple is the main USB-C holdout
an initiative it says will reduce environmental waste but that is likely to hit Apple the hardest. https://www.nytimes.com/... @fasterthanlime : Will Apple waste 45-55% energy efficiency to avoid comp...
UK ICO publishes three-year investigation into Cambridge Analytica, finding no evidence that CA or associate company SCL misused data to influence Brexit vote
and even within the company, staff worried that Nix & Co. were exaggerating CA's “impact and influence.” This jibes with reporting by @nytimes, @BuzzFeed, and others in 2017. Benedict Evans / @benedic...
A breakdown of the “four internets”: the US, China, EU, and India, the latter being driven in large part by the powerhouse telecom network Jio
Manage your Stratechery subscription. — One of the more pernicious mistruths surrounding the debate about TikTok … Tweets: @marceloplima , @s8mb , @antoniogm , @rmantri , and @benedictevans Tweets: ...
From August, Chrome will start blocking ads that consume 4MB of network data, 15 seconds of CPU usage in any 30 second period, or 60 seconds of total CPU usage
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iOS 13 removes 200 MB file size limit for app downloads over cellular and allows users to schedule downloads when they return to a WiFi connection
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Tim Cook, in an op-ed, asks Congress to pass privacy legislation and the FTC to create a data-broker clearinghouse so users can track and control their data
to enable Google's data harvesting/tracking/online advertising. Tim Cook strangely doesn't mention this here: http://time.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : 1. http://time.com/... 2. pic.twitter.com/I...
Analysis of the top 2,000 websites visited by EU and US residents shows ad trackers per page dropped 4% for EU users after GDPR and rose by 8%+ for US users
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch : Tweets: @s8mb , @niemanlab , @carnage4life , @emollick , @willrinehart , @mattyglesias , @deaneckles , @dangillmor , and @alexstamos See also Mediagazer Tweets: Sam Bowma...
Apple increases app size restriction for tvOS apps from 200MB to 4GB
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