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TikTok will voluntarily suspend its new app TikTok Lites reward programme while it works to address EU concerns, the company said on X social media platform on Wednesday. The European... -April 24, 2024 at 10:49 am EDT - MarketScreener

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -TikTok will voluntarily suspend its new app TikTok Lite's reward programme while it tries to resolve EU concerns, the company said on X social media platform on Wednesday. The European Commission is using its Digital Services Act (DSA) rules to force major online companies to do more to tackle illegal and harmful content on their platforms, with TikTok targeted for its impact on children. The EU executive had given the ByteDance-owned company until today to address its...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - German email service Tuta Mail has complained to European Union tech regulators about what it described as a sudden drop in Google search results on the day the bloc's new tech rules kicked in. The European Comm...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - TikTok will voluntarily suspend its new app TikTok Lite's reward programme while it works to address EU concerns, the company said on X social media platform on Wednesday.

Independent browser companies in the European Union are seeing a spike in users in the first month after EU legislation forced Alphabet's Google, Microsoft and Apple to make it easier for users to switch to rivals, according to data provided to Reuters by six companies. The early results come after the EU's sweeping Digital Markets Act, which aims to remove unfair competition, took effect on March 7, forcing big tech companies to offer mobile users the ability to select from a list of...

Amazon, Alphabet's Google and Microsoft may find it easier to bid for EU cloud computing contracts after draft cybersecurity labelling rules scrapped a requirement that vendors should be independent from non-EU laws, according to the document seen by Reuters. The European Union has struggled to agree to a cybersecurity certification scheme (EUCS) to vouch for the cybersecurity of cloud services and help governments and companies in the bloc to select a secure and trusted vendor for their b...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU regulators have noted Microsoft's hiring of most of artificial intelligence startup Inflection's staff including its co-founders and may act if other companies act similarly, making it a trend, EU antitrust c...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Amazon, Alphabets Google and Microsoft may find it easier to bid for EU cloud computing contracts after draft ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Microsoft will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine. The European Commission has been investigating Microsoft's tying of Office and Teams since a 2020 complaint by Salesforce-owned competing workspace messaging app Slack. Teams, which was added to Office 365 in 2017 for free, subsequently rep...

Microsoft: "The Commission has failed to provide appropriate safeguards to ensure that personal data transferred outside the EU/EEA are afforded an essentially equivalent level of protection as guaranteed in the EU/EEA," the watchdog said in a statement.