The French city of Lyon has announced a sweeping move away from Microsoft products in favor of open-source software—a decision that further signals Europe’s growing appetite for technological sovereignty. According to city officials, the...
Originally, Google had scheduled the European Union launch of its artificial intelligence chatbot, “Bard.” However, due to regulatory demands for comprehensive privacy policies, the company has chosen to delay the bot’s deployment. The Deputy...
The European Union has previously established that USB-C will become the standard port for all devices such as smartphones, tablets, cameras, headphones, portable speakers, and handheld game consoles. Charging ports and fast charging technology...
The European Union consumes hundreds of millions of different types of chips each year, but the amount of chip manufacturing is not much. Although Germany and other countries encourage wafer fabs to build new...
The European Commission made an investigation decision in 2017 and found that Google’s preference for its own shopping price comparison service in search results was a violation. Specifically, when users find certain products through...
The European Union has been promoting the standardization of electronic product interfaces many years ago. At the same time, some EU member states are also promoting the repairability and repairability of electrical products. The...
Recently Bloomberg reported that the European Commission stated that the review of Nvidia’s acquisition of Arm was extended to at least October 27. At the same time, NVIDIA made certain concessions to the EU...
Previously, the British Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it would conduct a second phase of investigation into Nvidia’s acquisition of Arm which can weakens competitors’ capabilities by restricting competitors’ access to Arm’s...
Last month, there were reports that Nvidia’s chances of acquiring ARM before March 2022 were getting smaller. On the one hand, British regulators may not consider the acquisition until this fall. On the other...
The European Commission announced a new proposal to expand anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CFT) rules to the crypto industry because currently, only certain types of crypto-asset service providers are subject to these rules....
During this period of time, the U.S. Department of Commerce banned Huawei and its affiliates, SMIC, and DJI, which focuses on drones, on various unwarranted charges. These bans not only have a negative impact...
E-commerce and technology giant Amazon has already been sued by EU antitrust lawsuits last year. At that time, the focus of the lawsuit was on Amazon’s use of data from third-party sellers. That is,...
The European Union has adopted a tough stance on climate change many years ago, including enacting laws to reduce the billions of e-waste generated each year. For example, we mentioned earlier that the European...
In the past, all feature phones and smartphones used detachable batteries. Users only need to open the battery back cover to install the batteries or replace them with new ones. But now almost all...
In the past few years, the European Union has conducted many antitrust investigations against Google. For example, in the Android antitrust case, the EU antitrust agency fined Google a record of $5 billion, and...
Although Huawei has repeatedly stressed that it hopes to cooperate with Google and other technology companies in the United States, Huawei has estimated that it has been hit hard if there is no backup...
