Technology RegulationEU taking 'close look' at Amazon's business practices
Written by Sam Varghese
The European Union has started taking a close look at the business practices of American retail giant Amazon, the bloc's competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, told… EU drops Ireland case after Apple pays back-taxes
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The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, has said it will drop a case against Ireland, filed in the wake of its… Indian paper creates confusion over Huawei's 5G role
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An Indian newspaper's use of widely differing quotes in two separate stories has incorrectly given the impression that the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei will be… Ex-Google man says asked to write software to censor news in 2006
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A former software engineer at Google claims he was taken off a project to write code to censor news articles in China in 2006 when… 
India's Department of Telecommunications has barred Chinese telecommunications providers Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corporation from participating in trials for developing 5G use cases in the… Google China app would link searches to phone numbers: claim
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A prototype of a censored search engine developed for China by Google links searches to the phone numbers of the individuals making those queries, a… Top Google engineer quits in protest over China search plan
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At least five employees have quit Google in protest at the company's plans to launch a censored search engine app in China, with senior research… European copyright rules clear first hurdle to becoming law
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The European Parliament has voted to pass its copyright rules, with 438 members voting for and 226 against, while 39 members abstained. Regulator slaps Thales with ‘letter of issue’ over Gemalto acquisition
Written by Peter Dinham
New Zealand’s competition regulator The Commerce Commission has sent a letter of issue to defence contractor Thales over its proposed acquisition of fellow data encryption… News Corp slams report claiming that Google a net positive to online publishers
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has rubbished a Google-funded report that claims news aggregators - like the search engine firm - can help struggling publishers by… 
