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EU Hits Google With $2.7B Antitrust Fine - But That's Not the Worst of It
The European Commission just slapped Mountain View Calif.-based Google with a $2.7 billion fine for favoring its own shopping services in its search results. The European Commission is the executive arm of the European Union. For a company that made $90.
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EU Proposals Could Force Vendors to Release Stored Data
The late night attack Saturday on London Bridge that left eight people dead and close to 50 injured has put the spotlight once more on digital data privacy and the ongoing discussion over access to data stored on the servers of data management vendors.
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EU Fines Facebook Over 'Misleading' WhatsApp Deal
European Union regulators have fined Facebook $122 million for providing what it describes as misleading information during the European Commission’s (EC) investigation into Facebook’s 2014 acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion. The EC is the executive arm of the European Union.
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Europe, US Try to Rebuild Bridge Between Clouds
At long last, it appears the shadow of U.S. intelligence agencies will not be long enough to darken relations between cloud service providers and their clients on both continents.
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Microsoft Eats $731 Million Fine from European Commission for Browser Violations
The interaction between Microsoft’s browser and its operating system has been a subject of interest by monopoly watchers almost since the Web began.
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The European Commission Geolocation Cookie Monster: Friend or Foe?
Regardless of whether you are a Web designer, IT administrator or not-so-humble end user of the World Wide Web, the chances are that the new European Commission’s rules on cookies -- which became law in late May of this year -- will have changed your outlook on the Internet.
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Document Management Roll-up: SharePoint Gets Cloud Archiving, Salesforce And Microsoft CRM Seminars
This week in document management brings us plenty of Microsoft news including SharePoint (news, site) archiving in the cloud and a new secure cloud service to simplify doing business for the Feds. SharePoint Archiving On The Cheap LiveOffice (news, site) which provides cloud-based email archiving,
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EU to Make Life Hard for Software Vendors, Open Source Projects?
In early 2007, the European Commission's Consumer Affairs Directorate released the Green Paper "on the Review of the Consumer Acquis," a document inviting comment on specific aspects of current consumer protection regulations and how they might be improved.
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Open Source Knowledge Stack Call for Contributors
The Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) project is relatively new, formed in January 2009 in part with funding from the European Commission. Its goal is to provide an open source technology stack for adding semantic web enhancements to existing open source content management systems. There are many ways the IKS
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Open Text Pledges Allegiance to European Standard
When the updated version of Europe's records management software standards are ready for adoption in 2008, Open Text says it will be poised to deliver compliant solutions and assist customers with preparation.Affectionately known as MoReq2, the latest iteration of the original set of records management standards has been in
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