Category: europe

EU set to investigate Apple over Spotify’s competition claims

Post author By Randall
Post date May 5, 2019
Categories In antitrust, Apple, apple music, eu, europe, european commission, european union, gear, government, Internet, Mobile, Music, Politics, regulation, services, spotify, streaming, Tech

[ad_1] Both tech companies have declined to comment on the report. Apple, however, has already rejected Spotify’s assertions. It argued that Spotify was really driven by “financial motivations” and wanted to benefit from the App Store’s infrastructure without contributing to it. The firm also rejected notions that it was privileging Apple Music on a software […]

Facebook opens ‘war room’ to fight meddling in EU election

Post author By Randall
Post date May 5, 2019
Categories In dublin, Election, eu, europe, european union, Facebook, fake news, gear, Instagram, Internet, misinformation, Politics, social network, social networking, Tech

[ad_1] The team has already been running for a short while, and caught “hundreds” of instances of suspicious behavior linked to political topics, Facebook’s Lexi Sturdy told the Financial Times. Some of those were voter suppression efforts that have since been removed. The company has also learned from its past experiences and has “fine-tuned” its […]

Bird’s big European expansion brings scooters to 50 cities

Post author By Randall
Post date April 12, 2019
Categories In bird, bird zero, e-scooter, europe, gear, Scooter, scooter sharing, Tech, Transportation

[ad_1] This also marks the European debut of the company’s latest scooter, the Bird Zero, which packs both 60 percent more battery life, better GPS and (most importantly) improved safety and durability. Bird is somewhat behind the curve: its arch-rival Lime already has a presence in several European cities, including in multiple major French, German […]

Evidence mounts that Russian hackers are trying to disrupt the EU elections

Post author By Randall
Post date March 21, 2019
Categories In attack, elections, eu, europe, fancy bear, fireeye, Hack, Internet, parliament, phishing, Politics, Russia, sandworm, Security, Tech, tomorrow
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[ad_1] Both groups have previously been linked to Russia. APT28 was allegedly behind the 2016 Democratic National Convention hack, while Sandworm is believed to be the malicious actor involved in last year’s NotPetya ransomware attacks on mainly Ukrainian facilities. FireEye says that latest efforts of both groups appears to be co-ordinated — although each have […]

Google will ask European Android users what browser they want to use

Post author By Randall
Post date March 20, 2019
Categories In Android, apps, eu, europe, european union, gear, Google, Mobile, Tech
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[ad_1] In addition to this latest move, Google also created separate licenses for Google Play, Chrome and Search after the commission revealed its decision. That allowed phonemakers to install any app they want to serve as alternatives to Google’s own applications, thereby serving as a direct response to the EU’s charge. Google incurred the massive […]