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Meta Faces EU Antitrust Fine for Marketplace-Facebook Bundling

Meta Faces EU Antitrust Fine for Marketplace-Facebook Bundling

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, is on the verge of receiving its first antitrust fine from the European Union. The impending sanction follows accusations by the European Commission that Meta unfairly bundled its classified advertisement service, Facebook Marketplace, with its dominant social network, Facebook, thereby gaining an undue competitive edge. In addition to […]

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Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Meta under EU investigation

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The European Commission’s swift initiation of non-compliance investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) marks a pivotal moment in regulatory enforcement within the digital realm. Led by Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, these actions underscore the Commission’s unwavering commitment to upholding fair competition and consumer protection in the digital market. With major tech giants such as […]

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New EU Center to Fight Cyber-Attacks

After three years of discussions and in the aftermath of the US Colonial Pipeline Hack, the EU finally decides to create a European Cybersecurity Industrial, Technology and Research Competence Center   Energy Cyber-attack in U.S. At a time when the whole world gears up to defend itself from threats and attacks from the darkside of […]

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Commissioners of Romania and Hungary rejected by Parliament before their hearings

  Ursula von der Leyen is preparing her team and asked her Commissioners to convince the European Parliament,but two Commissioners already rejected. Before the designated Commissioners can take office, the European Parliament in Brussels should carefully examine skills and qualifications of the 26 new EU Commissioners to match the posts proposed for them. First two […]

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