The EU will reportedly investigate Apple following anti-competition complaint...
The spat between Spotify and Apple is going to be the focus on a new investigation from the EU, according to a report from the FT. The paper reported today that the European Commission (EC), the EU’s...
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Product lessons from building our subscription service Extra Crunch
Subscription has been all the rage in media circles as the industry searches for new, sustainable business models. We’ve seen companies from infrastructure plays like Substack and Pico to brand...
View ArticleEU-US Privacy Shield passes third Commission ‘health check’— but litigation...
The third annual review of the EU-US Privacy Shield data transfer mechanism has once again been nodded through by Europe’s executive. This despite the EU parliament calling last year for the mechanism...
View ArticleTech giants still not doing enough to fight fakes, says European Commission
It’s a year since the European Commission got a bunch of adtech giants together to spill ink on a voluntary Code of Practice to do something — albeit, nothing very quantifiable — as a first step to...
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An EU coalition of techies is backing a ‘privacy-preserving’ standard for...
A European coalition of techies and scientists drawn from at least eight countries, and led by Germany’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute for telecoms (HHI), is working on contacts-tracing proximity...
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Digital mapping of coronavirus contacts will have key role in lifting...
The European Commission has set out a plan for coordinating the lifting of regional coronavirus restrictions that includes a role for digital tools in what the EU executive couches as “a robust system...
View ArticleGDPR’s two-year review flags lack of ‘vigorous’ enforcement
It’s more than two years since a flagship update to the European Union’s data protection regime moved into the application phase. Yet the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been dogged by...
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From Unity to Disrupt, tech has an especially optimistic week
Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here. While TechCrunch was busy producing our first-ever...
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Solve the ‘dead equity’ problem with a longer founder vesting schedule
Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here. The four-year vesting schedule that the typical...
View ArticleJoin Greylock’s Asheem Chandna on November 5 at noon PST/3 pm EST/8 pm GMT to...
The world of enterprise software and cybersecurity has taken multiple body blows since COVID-19 demolished the in-person office, flinging employees across the world and forcing companies to adapt to an...
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Dutch court finds Uber drivers are employees
Uber has lost another legal challenge in Europe over the employment status of drivers: The Court of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, has ruled that drivers for Uber are employed, rather than...
View ArticleEU considers single rules for regulating vacation rental platforms
European Union lawmakers are consulting on how to regulate the short-term rental market across the bloc — asking whether a single set of pan-EU rules or something more locally flavored is needed to...
View ArticleClubhouse, Vimeo, DoubleVerify and others set to sign up to beefed-up...
Audio social network Clubhouse, video sharing platform Vimeo and anti-ad fraud startup DoubleVerify are among a clutch of tech companies and organzations preparing to sign up to a beefed-up version of...
View ArticleDriving AI innovation in tandem with regulation
Will Uppington Contributor Share on Twitter Will Uppington is the CEO and co-founder of TruEra. The European Commission announced first-of-its-kind legislation regulating the use of artificial...
View ArticleEU lawmakers agree data reuse rules to foster AI and R&D
It’s just over a year since the European Union’s executive proposed legislation aimed at encouraging widespread sharing and reuse of industrial data and protected public sector data-sets — such as...
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Europe seals a deal on tighter rules for digital services
In the small hours local time, European Union lawmakers secured a provisional deal on a landmark update to rules for digital services operating in the region — grabbing political agreement after a...
View ArticleApple reveals new details about Spotify’s business as possible EU fine nears
With the European Commission set to rule on Spotify’s complaint focused on competition in the streaming music market, there are hints that the ruling will not be in Apple’s favor. This week, the...
View ArticleSpotify, Epic Games and others pen letter to EC, claiming Apple has made a...
Epic Games, Spotify, Proton, 37signals and other developers had already signaled their displeasure with how Apple has chosen to adapt its rules to meet the requirements of the new EU regulation, the...
View ArticleApple plans to appeal European Commission’s massive antitrust fine favoring...
Apple says it plans to appeal the historic €1.84 billion fine issued today by the European Commission over Apple’s anticompetitive practices in the streaming music market. In a newsroom post, Apple...
View ArticleStreamer Deezer cheers Apple antitrust fine but calls tech giant’s DMA...
Streaming music service Deezer is joining Spotify in cheering the European Union’s €1.84 billion fine imposed on Apple for breaking antitrust rules in the streaming music market. However, the company...
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