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see my "final pretrial Twitter thread"). I'm not like those New Year's resolutioners starting to smoke again a week later. This post is not about the trial itself or the antitrust matters involved, but about suspicious social media activity of the astroturfing kind. It's publicly discoverable that Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney and I follow each other on Twitter, and sometimes retweet or like each other's tweets. Other than that, I don't know him and I'm 100% independent from Epic. I have my own app store issues. In recent weeks there's been quite some suspicious activity on Twitter. ...

Techies give an old fashioned Supreme Court decent marks in coding case John Fritze, USA TODAY Replay Video WASHINGTON – Supreme Court justices are among the nation's foremost legal minds. But just how good are the nine members of the court at computer programming? Often teased for their ambivalence toward technology – Chief Justice John Roberts once asked a lawyer in 2010 to explain the difference between an email and a pager – the justices this week were forced to grapple with complicated programming concepts in a multi-billion-dollar copyright dispute between tech...

Tech sector calls for renewed cooperation in global digital tax talks Industry groups want renewed multilateral negotiations between countries about taxation of the digital economy in the wake of Joe Biden’s election as US president Share this item with your network: By Published: 10 Feb 2021 10:49 Tech sector bodies are calling for a “new impetus” from the US, the European Union (EU) and the UK to agree a common approach to taxing the digital economy following the election of Joe Biden as US president, arguing that divergence in national digital tax regimes could spark trade disp...

Read later Audio version Summary: The OECD is hoping to reach a global solution on the challenge of taxing digital services, which mostly affects US companies. With Donald Trump no longer occupying the White House, there is hope that the US will be taking a less combative approach to global trade issues and that President Biden will take a more collaborative, conciliatory stance. High on the agenda in 2021 is the ongoing fight over how countries fairly tax digital services, which in reality mostly impacts the US tech giants. And time is of the essence, as the OECD aims to reach an agreement...

techUK and the Global Business Community call on EU to Safeguard International Data Flows techUK and the Global Business Community call on EU to Safeguard International Data Flows techUK has joined a wide-ranging coalition of industry groups in a call to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Commission to ensure much-needed legal certainty around data flows in and outside of the bloc. As a recent BusinessEurope-led coalition statement underlines, an unduly restrictive approach to data flows would have a significant effect on European industries and risks damaging the ...