EU

First Digital Markets Act sanctions target Meta personalised ads and Appleâ€™s App Store

chantadmin / May 5, 2025

The EU has fined Meta â‚¬200m and Apple â‚¬500m for breaching the Digital Markets Actâ€”marking the first use of the new rules amid rising tensions with U.S. tech giants.

Global

Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets

chantadmin / March 28, 2025

Google has reported the results of an experiment it ran which removed news from search results for 1% of users for 2.5 months in eight* markets in Europe â€” claiming the results show that news is essentially worthless to Googleâ€™s ad business.