April 26, 2024
Making Sense of: How America’s CHIPS Act Fuels Domestic Innovation

American companies are outpacing European ones on innovation and technology. That’s what the head of Norway’s $1.6 trillion oil fund told the Financial Times Wednesday (April 24), and his comments...

April 26, 2024
Biometric Privacy as a Case Study for U.S. Privacy Overall

Privacy law in the United States is best described as a patchwork of rules and regulations at both the state and federal level. This development is perhaps no better exemplified...

April 25, 2024
Mark Zuckerberg Says Threads ‘Growing Well’ With 150 Million Users

Threads now has more than 150 million monthly active users. The Meta-owned text-based social media platform is “growing well,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday (April 24), during the company’s...

April 24, 2024
Western Union’s Digital Transactions Surge 13%

Western Union’s first quarter results took note of continued shifts to digital channels to send money across borders. Branded digital transactions grew by 13% year over year (YoY), the company...

April 24, 2024
TikTok Suspends Rewards Program Amid EU Pressure

TikTok has suspended a rewards program on TikTok Lite amid a dispute with European Union (EU) regulators. “TikTok always seeks to engage constructively with the EU Commission and other regulators,” the TikTok Policy...

April 24, 2024
TikTok Divesture Aftermath Focuses on Potential Suitors

The clock is running out on TikTok’s U.S. ambitions. President Joe Biden on Wednesday (April 24) signed a bipartisan measure that gives TikTok’s owner, Chinese tech giant ByteDance, nine months...

April 24, 2024
Tuta Mail Raises Alarm Over Google Search Ranking Plunge Amidst...

Tuta Mail, a prominent German encrypted email service, has raised concerns over a significant drop in its visibility on Google search results coinciding with the enforcement of the European Union’s...

April 23, 2024
EU Conducts First-Ever Raids on a Company Under Foreign Subsidies...

The European Commission made history on Tuesday by initiating its first unannounced raid under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation. These surprise raids were carried out at a company operating in the...

April 23, 2024
Google Aims to Move Faster to Meet ‘Systemic’ Challenges

Google aims to move faster and get closer to its customers as it meets “systemic” challenges. Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president at Google responsible for search, assistant, geo, ads, commerceand...