Google completes acquisition of Fitbit
Google officially completed the acquisition of Fitbit, a month after the European Commission approved the acquisition. Google reiterates that with the deal, the company does …
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Intel presents Lakefield CPUs with big.Little design and stacked memory
Intel announces the Core i5-L16G7 and Core i3-L13G4. The economical Lakefield chips are made at 10nm and consist of one powerful Sunny Cove core, combined …
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Disney + to India and Southeast Asia next year
Sources close to Disney reveal that the entertainment company wants to bring their Disney + streaming service to India and a number of other Asian …
France imposes GAFA tax on Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon from 2019 onwards
Bruno Le Maire, the French Minister of Economy, has announced that from 1 January 2019 France will impose a tax on large internet giants. It …
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EU countries accept mandatory fingerprint on identity card
Ambassadors of the 28 member states have agreed to a proposal from the European Commission to oblige fingerprints on identity cards of EU citizens. The …
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Google is going to ask for money for apps after the EU’s fine
Smartphones can become more expensive, just like apps and all of this after a 4.34 billion euro imposed by the European Commission (EC). And all …
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Facebook is increasing the number of users affected by recent hack to 30 million
Facebook has published more information about the recent attack on the platform and claims that 30 million people have been stolen ‘access tokens’. Initially the …
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Google asks manufacturers up to 35 euros per phone for use of its apps
Google asks smartphone manufacturers who release their devices in the EU up to 35 euros per device. The Verge writes this on the basis of …
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YouTube CEO: EU’s new copyright directive is threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs
Susan Wojcicki, the director of YouTube, warns that Article 13 of the text adopted by the European Parliament in September for a new copyright directive …
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EU reserves 900MHz frequency band for iot and rfid
The European Commission reserves extra frequency space for, among other things, internet-of-things and rfid devices. By reserving the 900MHz frequencies for RFID, the EU follows …