Apple, Meta Fined as EU Presses Ahead With Tech Probes April 24, 2025 By Foo Yun Chee and Jan Strupczewski Apple was fined 500 million euros ($570 million) on Wednesday and Meta 200 million euros, as European Union antitrust regulators...
Big Tech’s Data Center Boom Poses New Risk to Grid Operators March 21, 2025 By Tim McLaughlin Data Center Alley, a 30-square-mile stretch outside Washington D.C. and home to more than 200 data centers, consumes roughly the...
Trump’s Antitrust Trio Heralds Big-Tech Crackdown to Continue December 13, 2024 By Leah Nylen and Emily Birnbaum President-elect Donald Trump’s antitrust picks are likely to take a hard-line on the tech giants, and a harder line on...
Facebook Users Affected by Data Breach Eligible for Compensation: German Court November 19, 2024 A German court said on Monday that Facebook users whose data was illegally obtained in 2018 and 2019 were eligible...
Meta Fined €798 Million by EU Over Abusing Classified Ads Dominance November 18, 2024 By Samuel Stolton Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with a €798 million ($841 million) fine by European Union regulators by tying its Facebook...
EU’s Vestager Triumphs in Crackdown on Apple’s Tax Deal, Google’s Practices September 10, 2024 By Foo Yun Chee EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager scored two major wins on Tuesday as Europe’s top court backed her crackdown against Apple’s...
Google’s Ad Empire Under Fire With US Antitrust Trial to Begin September 9, 2024 By Leah Nylen and Davey Alba Alphabet Inc.’s Google heads back to court Monday to face US Justice Department allegations that it manipulates the $677 billion...
US Appeals Court Takes Aim at Big Tech Liability Shield August 29, 2024 By Olivia Carville A US appeals court has struck down a long-standing argument from social media platforms: that a federal law grants them...
Apple Unfairly Fired UK Worker Who Was Part Toxic Workplace Culture, Judge Says June 26, 2024 By Upmanyu Trivedi Apple Inc. unfairly fired an employee for making racist comments that were part of a toxic workplace culture at one...
Growing Reliance on Big Tech for AI Carries New Risks, Banks Say June 7, 2024 By Elizabeth Howcroft The boom in artificial intelligence will increase banks’ dependence on big U.S. tech firms, creating new risks for the industry,...