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Stanley Pignal

@spignal
11 posts
2025-04-16
European carmakers were once so far ahead of Made-in-China rivals, they were required to share technology to enter the Chinese market.  —  Now Chinese carmarkers are so far ahead, they have to share their superior technology to access the EU market.  —  www.ft.com/content/9de3...
2025-04-16 View on X
Financial Times

European carmakers are increasingly doing deals with Chinese rivals to prevent them from falling behind in core areas such as software and autonomous driving

and we should really call things by their names—good old European racism.  —  www.ft.com/content/9de3...  [image] Ilias Alami / @iliasalami : “Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis...

2024-09-11
Monday: the EU needs to be less fearsomely regulated, it is obsessed with bans and fines (Draghi) Tuesday: EU top court ruling results in €13bn tax charge for Apple and €2.4bn fine for Google. Completely unrelated (and the EU is right in both cases) but still telling.
2024-09-11 View on X
Bloomberg

The European Court of Justice rules against Google, keeping a 2017 decision for a €2.4B fine for Google abusing monopoly power to crush rival shopping services

and an existential crisis Verdict : Apple and Google lose EU court battles over combined $17bn Tom Jowitt / Silicon UK : Google Must Pay €2.4bn Fine, EU Court Rules Luke Jones / Wi...

2024-09-10
Monday: the EU needs to be less fearsomely regulated, it is obsessed with bans and fines (Draghi) Tuesday: EU top court ruling results in €13bn tax charge for Apple and €2.4bn fine for Google. Completely unrelated (and the EU is right in both cases) but still telling.
2024-09-10 View on X
Bloomberg

The European Court of Justice rules against Google, keeping a 2017 decision for a €2.4B fine for Google abusing monopoly power to crush rival shopping services

- EU judges uphold lower court ruling in shopping case  — Google was accused by EU of abusing its dominant position

2023-03-19
Ask a teenager about the monopoly power of Facebook. Expect to be laughed at. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-19 View on X
Financial Times

Q&A with Dina Srinivasan, author of The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, on Meta and Google's ad duopoly, the US antitrust cases, concerns about Apple, and more

Patrick McGee / Financial Times : LinkedIn: Patrick McGee . Tweets: @rasmus_kleis , @simonjharris , @anshublog , @paultang , @patrickmcgee_ , @spignal , and @dinasrinivasan Linked...

2022-11-26
The only thing that infuriates the EU even more than Big Tech having lobbyists in Brussels is when Big Tech has no lobbyists left in Brussels. https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-26 View on X
@zoeschiffer

Source: Twitter abruptly fired around 50 engineers and warned dozens more on the evening before Thanksgiving; some were told their “code is not satisfactory”

Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer :

2022-11-25
The only thing that infuriates the EU even more than Big Tech having lobbyists in Brussels is when Big Tech has no lobbyists left in Brussels. https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-25 View on X
@zoeschiffer

Source: Twitter abruptly fired around 50 engineers and warned dozens more on the evening before Thanksgiving; some were told their “code is not satisfactory”

Hearing that roughly 50 Twitter engineers were abruptly fired last night and dozens more received warnings: https://twitter.com/...

The only thing that infuriates the EU even more than Big Tech having lobbyists in Brussels is when Big Tech has no lobbyists left in Brussels. https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-25 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Elon Musk disbands Twitter's Brussels team, sparking compliance concern among EU officials after policy executives departed the small but vital office

Digital policy executives' departure elicits unease over adherence to EU rules on disinformation and hate speech

2022-11-24
The only thing that infuriates the EU even more than Big Tech having lobbyists in Brussels is when Big Tech has no lobbyists left in Brussels. https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-24 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Elon Musk disbands Twitter's Brussels team, sparking compliance concern among EU officials after policy executives departed the small but vital office

Digital policy executives' departure elicits unease over adherence to EU rules on disinformation and hate speech

2022-09-14
You can't claim there is undue cooperation between the various branches of EU government. At precisely the moment the head of the Commission is giving her big annual speech, the EU court of justice delivers a verdict in favour of the Commission against Google in a major case.
2022-09-14 View on X
Bloomberg

An EU court backs the European Commission's decision to fine Google over Android antitrust breaches but trims the record €4.3B fine to €4.1B; Google can appeal

Google lost most of the first round of its battle to topple a record 4.3 billion-euro ($4.3 billion) …

2020-06-15
It turns out MALKOVICH that Softbank is investing MALKOVICH! money in a fund run by a Softbank-backed company MALKOVICH!! that is used MALKOVICH?? to fund Softbank-backed companies. https://www.ft.com/...
2020-06-15 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: SoftBank has invested $500M+ into Credit Suisse supply-chain finance funds that then made big bets on the debt of struggling SoftBank-backed startups

Financial Times :

2020-04-10
Travelex paid $2.3m to hackers to get it's IT systems back up and running, which is roughly how much it charges customers to change £100 into $ at Heathrow. https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-10 View on X
The Next Web

Report: Travelex paid hackers 285 BTC, worth around $2.3M, to regain access to its systems after a ransomware attack on New Year's Eve

Travelex paid hackers $2.3 million worth of Bitcoin to regain access to its computer systems after a devastating ransomware attack on New Year's Eve, reports the Wall Street Journa...