STRASBOURG (Reuters) – European Union lawmakers voted on Wednesday to force Google, Facebook and other technology firms to share more revenues with European media, publishers and other content creators in a shake-up of copyright rules. Read more…
STRASBOURG (Reuters) – The European Union’s chief executive on Wednesday proposed hefty fines on Google, Facebook, Twitter and other online platforms if they fail to remove extremist content within one hour. Brussels gave internet firms Read more…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian ride-hailing and online payment company Go-Jek has invested in digital media startup Kumparan as part of its expansion into online content, it said. Go-Jek, whose backers include Google and Tencent, has Read more…
A recent RISE panel addressed smartphone addiction. There’s no easy solution, but some users are already voluntarily unplugging – and loving it. Earlier this month we published a column by Mr Tony Poulos about the Read more…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Heirs in Germany have the right to access the Facebook accounts of their deceased relatives, a court said in a landmark privacy ruling on Thursday, saying a social media account can be Read more…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU lawmakers have opted not to take a tough line on an EU copyright overhaul aimed at making Google, Facebook and other tech giants share revenues with publishers, broadcasters and artists after Read more…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe’s music, broadcasting and publishing industries have hit back at internet critics of an EU overhaul of copyright rules, saying claims the reforms might lead to the demise of the internet amount Read more…
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s southern province of Hainan will offer foreigners unrestricted internet access to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as part of new incentives to boost tourism. The island province known as China’s Hawaii because Read more…
Imposing content-filtering technology on online platforms could be very difficult to implement and costly for European start-ups and scale-ups, according to a new survey from Analysys Mason commissioned by Allied for Startups. Legislators in the Read more…
(Reuters) – AT&T is committed to spend as much as needed on the media business of newly acquired Time Warner – now known as WarnerMedia – chief executive Randall Stephenson told CNBC on Friday, with a Read more…
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