WhatsApp and other messaging services have united to oppose Britain’s plan to force tech companies to break end-to-end encryption in private messages in its proposed internet safety legislation. Meta-owned WhatsApp, Signal and five other apps signed an open letter saying the law could give an “unelected official the power to weaken the privacy of billions […]
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In recent years, Big Tech companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple have faced increasing scrutiny from antitrust watchdogs due to concerns about their market dominance and potentially anti-competitive practices. These companies have amassed vast amounts of data and power, and many argue that they need to be regulated to ensure fair competition and protect […]
Chinese electric vehicle makers should brace for the possibility of protectionist policies being leveled against them by foreign governments as they seize on their cost advantages to expand exports, the founder of Chinese EV maker Nio said. William Li told reporters on the sidelines of the Shanghai Autoshow that he estimated his firm and peers […]
Asset manager BlackRock Inc is launching a months-long process on Tuesday to help the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp offload $114 billion of assets it picked up recently from failed banks, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing emails. Earlier this month, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) retained BlackRock’s unit to sell the securities portfolios it […]
Earth-bound businesses, industries, and investors increasingly look for space to do business, compete, and invest. The continuous growth of the space economy is dependent on space enterprises showing their relevance to non-space organizations and pushing beyond existing industrial startups relationships and government contract money. Space Startups Many executives, analysts, and investors believe that the boom […]
Big Tech has been making headlines lately as governments all over the world are scrutinizing their business practices. In fact, Germany’s FCO found Apple to be “of paramount significance for competition across markets” earlier this month. But what does that mean for small and medium enterprises that use Big Tech’s platforms to advertise themselves, like […]
Italy’s recent move to ban ChatGPT, a popular chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI) developed by Open AI, has sparked a heated debate among European regulators. While some argue that Italy’s ban is driven by concerns over data privacy and compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), others suspect geopolitical factors are at play. […]
The 2020s are shaping up to be big years for governments’ antitrust legislation all over the world. Earlier this month, Germany’s Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office FCO) regulator designated Apple a “company of paramount significance for competition across markets,” adding Apple Inc. to Google and Meta which were determined with binding effect the same on May […]
The transformative potential of blockchain technology has been compared to that of the internet in the 1990s. Blockchains, like the internet, have the potential to drive dramatic institutional efficiency gains, save billions through reduced operational, financial, legal, and governance costs, create widespread process redundancy, significantly reduce counterparty, and market risk, and reshape the financial market […]
Before most people realized what was going on, China had surpassed the United States as the world leader in manufacturing and purchasing EVs. And the trend hasn’t slowed: in the last two years, the number of EVs sold in China has risen from 1.3 million to a stunning 6.8 million, making 2022 the eighth consecutive […]