by Adre's IT | 26 May, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, beauty, Facebook, Miley Cyrus, robotexts, Unpluq
Facebook’s parent Meta has given key assurances to U.K. antitrust regulators as it looks to counter concerns over how it uses advertising data to benefit its own products. The news comes in the same week as Meta revealed it was selling GIF platform Giphy for $53...
by Adre's IT | 29 March, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, beauty, broadcom vmware, Broadcom-VMware deal, Enterprise, games, microsoft windows
After putting Broadcom on notice last week that it was concerned that the proposed $61 billion Broadcom-VMware deal could adversely affect competition in the server market, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced today that it was proceeding with an...
by Adre's IT | 10 March, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, beauty, Enterprise, Facebook, Jedi Blue, Miley Cyrus, robotexts
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) won’t be pursuing an anticompetition collusion case against Google and Facebook’s parent Meta, following a similar decision made by its counterparts in the Europe Union. However, Google will remain...
by Adre's IT | 6 May, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, Apple, beauty, compliance, cross-border, Disrupt SF 2020, ecommerce directive, ethernet, Europe, ex ante competition law, Facebook, fig, FirstMark Capital, Glencore, news media, platform power, Policy, qanon, social media, Startups
Just over a year after launching a dedicated unit focused on digital markets inside the national competition watchdog, the UK government has put some meat on the bones of what this new Big Tech regulator will focus on — including confirming it will have the...
by Adre's IT | 11 February, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, Advertising Tech, beauty, compliance, Disrupt SF 2020, Emerge Education, Europe, European Data Protection Board, horizon, Latch, Mdundo, Security, TC
The U.K.’s competition authority has accepted commitments from Google over how it develops the post-cookie future of interest-based ad targeting online under its self-styled “Privacy Sandbox” proposal. In an announcement today, the Competition and...
by Adre's IT | 4 June, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Amazon, beauty, Bertrand Serlet, compliance, Disrupt SF 2020, Europe, European Research Council, Facebook, gig workers, horizon, news media, Norway, Peter Wang, Policy, Salman Ullah, spamming
Facebook is facing a fresh pair of antitrust probes in Europe. The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the EU’s Competition Commission both announced formal investigations into the social media giant’s operations today — with...
