The U.S. Federal Trade Commission asks the court to allow its antitrust lawsuit against Facebook. FTC says that that the company’s had an “exclusionary conduct”, shutting out new competition. The monopolistic position brought the antitrust lawsuit In…
Phhhoto, a defunct photo app, is suing Meta for antitrust violations. The company claims that the social media site copied its features and hid its name from search results. Phhhoto’s technology enabled users to capture five frames in a single point-and-shoot burst. They…
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) puts Facebook in trouble again, as it fined the company £50.5m ($70m), for its Giphy acquisition. The company is being investigated for breaking rules, and ignoring many warnings from the CMA. Its own actions put…
Image source: Matt Navarra TikTok Stories might become the new feature on the platform, just after Twitter has discontinued its own spin on Stories. The company is currently testing it, which will allow for more creativity. The TikTok stories will not replace other…
A privacy watchdog rejected a call from Germany’s data protection regulator for an European ban on Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging service. The European Commission said that it will examine whether Ireland’s Facebook subsidiary is complying with the…
Facebook Marketplace helps the company move from its initial focus of connecting people through social media, to an e-commerce platform. The company is now accepting payments for goods directly from users. Facebook Marketplace now has over one billion users, and there are…
Tech giants will have to face increased regulation pressure. But Australia’s competition regulator mentioned that rules which should turn into a law this month, were just the beginning.
Giants to pay for news content
In December, the Australian government announced…
ByteDance tries to save TikTok in the US and came with a new filing. The company is asking the federal appeals court to abandon the government‘s order which forces it to sell the American operations of the app.
Ex-president Donald Trump required ByteDance to sell…
Facebook threatens it might leave Europe due to the GDPR regulations regarding data transfers, imposed by The Irish Data Protection Commission. Thus, the preliminary order asked the company to stop the data transfer about its EU users back to the USA.
Concerns about the…
A series of Facebook threats against the Australian users and publishers appeared in a recent official blog post. The company says it will ban both users and companies from sharing news if the News Media Bargaining Code will come into force.
The reaction comes as the…
