Poland’s VOD Levy Yields Almost 2 m EUR in 2020
WARSAW: Digital companies operating in Poland paid 1.986 m EUR / 8.92 m PLN in the first six months since the new VOD levy was introduced in 2020.
The fee for on-demand audiovisual media services on the internet was introduced at the beginning of July as part of the anti-crisis shield 3.0. The levy amounts to either 1.5 percent user fee or ad revenue, whichever is higher for the individual business. The levy must be paid each quarter to the Polish Film Institute.
These funds will be allocated to the Polish Film Institute’s Operational Programmes for film production, organisation of festivals and other film events, support for cinemas and promotion of Polish film abroad.
The global smart meters market has been segmented into type, technology, and application.
By type, the global smart meters market has been segmented into electric meters, gas meters, and water meters.
By technology, the global smart meters market has been segmented into Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
By application, the global smart meters market has been segmented into residential, commercial, and water meters.
Regional Analysis
By region, the global smart meters market has been bifurcated into the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the rest of the world.
APAC to dominate the global market
The Asia Pacific region is expected to remain a highly lucrative smart meters market throughout the review period. In 2017, the region accounted for the largest share of the global smart meters market. Factors such as the rise in smart city projects across economically strong APAC countries, such as Thailand and India, and the high energy requi
Google Cloud to pay taxes in Uzbekistan
AKIPRESS.COM - Another Google service has been included into the list of tax payers in Uzbekistan.
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Landis+Gyr and Google Cloud Sign Groundbreaking Long-Term Strategic Partnership
Cham, Switzerland - December 18
th, 2020 - Landis+Gyr AG, a fully owned subsidiary of Landis+Gyr Group AG (LAND.SW) and Google Ireland Limited ( Google Cloud ) have signed a strategic, multi-year partnership to accelerate Landis+Gyr`s transition to the cloud and co-innovate new products and services. It is the first partnership of this kind for the energy management industry.
Landis+Gyr and Google Cloud will co-innovate the next generation of cloud-based energy management solutions to enable smart infrastructure and smart cities
Landis+Gyr s transformation into the cloud will drive agility, ensure cyber-security, and reduce cost over time
On 7 December 2020, the French supervisory authority CNIL (
Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, French data protection authority) imposed substantive fines on Amazon and Google for allegedly placing advertising cookies on the computers of users in France without prior consent or providing adequate information. Amazon Europe Core was fined 35 million euros, and Google LLC and Google Ireland Limited received a total fine of 100 million euros. In determining the level of these fines, the CNIL took account of the seriousness of the alleged violations, the number of users that were affected, and the companies’ advertising revenues indirectly generated from the data collected via advertising cookies.