Facebook’s acquisition of Giphy would reduce competition in the display advertising market space. Also, Giphy is no longer a potential challenger. This is what the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) decided.
Display advertising suffers because of…
Attackers
used cookie theft in order to hijack the channels of high-profile
YouTube creators. It’s no secret that cryptocurrency scams are
running rampant. Recently, hacker-for-hire networks have taken to
posing as YouTubers and luring creators with bogus…
The EU antitrust regulators are opening an investigation into Facebook’s purchase of U.S. customer service startup, Kustomer. So, the EU worries that the acquisition may hurt competition and boost Facebook’s dominance in online advertising.
EU antitrust…
Google
tracking
cookies will remain in place at least until 2023. The company has
delayed its plan to block third-party cookies from Chrome. These
are small bits of code that websites can set on a user’s computer.
They
work like browser “cookies” and allow…
The use of data determined Britain’s competition authorities to open a formal investigation into Amazon. The Financial Times announced it citing three people, familiar with what happens.
Investigators watch the use of data
The Competition and Markets…
Data transparency will receive a new boost from the UK government. The authorities announced that they would develop a new code for the tech companies, in order to let users better control their data.
So,
a Digital Markets Unit will create, together with other…
