Monthly Archives: November 2022

The Morning After: UK competition regulator investigates Apple and Google’s mobile dominance

Apple and Google’s domination across the mobile internet is under scrutiny again. Earlier this year, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it was consulting on a possible probe into Google and Apple’s dominance in the mobile phone market. Now, the regulator has announced it received “widespread support” for its proposals and has launched…

Twitter is reportedly failing to pay some suppliers amidst cost-cutting measures

Elon Musk is refusing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel bills accumulated by Twitter employees before he took over the company, The New York Times has reported. The company is on a drastic cost-cutting campaign and Musk has reportedly issued orders to slow or even halt payments to vendors and contract services….

EU puts TikTok and its Chinese overlords under the microscope

The European Commission has confirmed that multiple investigations are underway into how TikTok and its Chinese parent company handle user data. The ownership of TikTok by Chinese outfit ByteDance is something that has long made many uneasy, with reports suggesting that Chinese access to data on United States citizens was already happening. That prompted some…