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2021 update ) on 4 January 2021, it raised eyebrows throughout the world, the most notable being Tesla CEO Elon Musk s tweet encouraging users to switch to Signal. Notably, the Union government has opposed the 2021 update on the grounds of data privacy concerns and differential treatment between Indian users and their counterparts in the European Union (
EU).
While WhatsApp has adopted a take-it-or-leave-it approach in India, it allows users in the EU to opt-out from sharing their data with Facebook companies or third parties to ensure compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (
GDPR). However, while data privacy concerns have remained at the forefront of the developments since WhatsApp s January update, there exist antitrust concerns too. In a welcome development, the Competition Commission of India (
Japan could apply antitrust law on digital cartels: panel msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The Japanese M&A market in 2020, like markets globally, was deeply impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Notably, there was a dramatic decrease in outbound deal volume with Japanese corporations instead focusing on the domestic market.
Japanese companies continued the trend of shedding non-core assets and consolidating their businesses. According to data from Dealogic, Japan s M&A deal volume in 2020 fell to 538 total transactions, with a total deal value of over $73 billion. Although deal volume was down from 2019, globally Japan was only surpassed by Germany, the US and the UK in terms of total deal value. The sectors producing the largest number of transactions were retail, financial services, and chemicals.