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The European Commission is seeking feedback from rivals and customers on concessions Apple offered to settle EU antitrust charges and stave off a possible hefty fine, it said on Friday, confirming an earlier Reuters report.The bloc's regulator had charged Apple with restricting access to its tap-and-go mobile payment systems, based on the independent technology called Near-Field Communication (NFC), as it made it difficult for rivals to develop alterative payment options for iOS-based devices and compete with Apple Pay…

The matter of Apple's App Store and the way it runs it has long been a bone of contention for people, especially developers who sell their wares in it. Apple takes a 30% cut from all transactions handled via the App Store and doesn't allow apps to include a third-party payment system, either. But following the news that Apple is now going to at least allow apps to link out to third-party websites to process payments, it was hoped that there was going to be a new way for developers to accept money from their customers.…

Following the news that the Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of either Apple or Epic Games in their ongoing antitrust App Store lawsuit, Apple has rolled out a brand new links feature to comply with the court’s ruling. Epic Games mostly lost its legal battle against Apple, but a court did rule in favor of the Fortnite maker on one count. As it stands, Apple is no longer allowed to adopt any “anti-steering” measures and must let App Store developers offer their customers a link so that they can buy digital…

An Italian tax claim against Facebook parent Meta has been escalated to the EU Commission's VAT committee for evaluation, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters, in a test case for how the tech sector is taxed.The U.S. corporation, which also owns the Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus platforms, faces a potential tax bill of around 870 million euros ($954 million) in Italy after Milan prosecutors launched an investigation into the company on the basis of a tax police audit.Elevate Your Tech Prowess…

Salesforce has announced plans to acquire Spiff, a platform that automates commission management for sales teams. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2017, Spiff serves up a low-code interface designed to make it easy for businesses to create a sales compensation plan that automatically updates based on personnel meeting their pre-agreed targets. With native integrations for the common enterprise CRM and ERP systems, Spiff says it can handle the most intricate commission structures,…

Although for the past several months it seemed like most of the legal action taken against big tech companies, like Google, Meta, and Apple, was taking place in the European Union. (It’s why those, and other big tech companies have been making plans to try and defuse the EU's legal strategy.) However, it would be a mistake to think that U.S. government agencies were not interested in making their own investigatinons into big tech. In fact, this past Wednesday, the tech world discovered that the U.S. Federal Trade…

in the EU will soon get , making it easier for them to receive employment status. Right now, over 500 digital labor platforms are actively operating in the EU, employing roughly . The new rules follow agreements made between the European Parliament and the EU Member States, after policies were first proposed by the European Commission .The new rules highlight employment status as a key issue for gig workers, meaning an employed individual can reap the labor and social rights associated with an official worker title. This…

Dutch online marketplace OLX is helping EU antitrust enforcers in their investigation into Facebook owner Meta Platforms, the Naspers unit said on Friday.The European Commission has accused Meta of gaining an unfair advantage by tying its classified advertisements service Marketplace with its social network Facebook and imposing unfair trading conditions on rival online classified ads services. Meta, which contested the charges at a closed hearing held by the EU competition enforcer last week, has said the EU's case is…

The agency is investigating whether OpenAI’s chatbot has harmed individuals by publishing false information about them. The agency is investigating whether OpenAI’s chatbot has harmed individuals by publishing false information about them. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials…

The European Commission announced on Monday a data transfer agreement with the United States after Europe's top court annulled two previous pacts that underpinned how thousands of companies transfer Europeans' personal data across the Atlantic.However, the move was immediately criticised by privacy activist Max Schrems' noyb group, which said it will challenge the agreement. The EU executive said measures taken by the United States ensured an adequate level of protection for Europeans' personal data transferred across the…