By Martin Coulter LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union (EU) on Monday launched investigations into Alphabet, Apple and Meta for potentially breaching a landmark new law designed to prevent Big Tech having an unfair advantage over competitors. Last year, Brussels designated six

By Waylon Cunningham SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - When McDonald’s first opened for business in the 1940s, its workers stood at physical counters, its burgers and fries were listed on paper menus, and its customers paid cash to its human cashiers. How

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - From overhauling online platforms to backroom engineering, Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and TikTok owner ByteDance have scrambled over the last six months to comply with landmark EU tech rules that come into force

24 companies have urged the European Commission and the European Parliament to exert all possible efforts to ensure that the gatekeepers adhere to both the literal requirements and the underlying principles of the Digital Markets Act. A group of leading technology

By Zaheer Kachwala, Harshita Mary Varghese, Samrhitha Arunasalam, Arsheeya Bajwa and Priyanka.G (Reuters) - Big Tech and media companies in the United States continue to announce fresh job cuts, a sign that the spate of layoffs seen in 2023 could persist

By Douglas Gillison (Reuters) - A U.S. watchdog's plan to supervise companies like Apple and Alphabet's Google that provide digital wallets and payment apps risks stifling innovation and keeping some players out of the market, their lobby group said on Monday. The

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager will meet the chief executives of Apple, Alphabet, Broadcom and Nvidia in the United States next week, her communications advise said on Friday. The meetings come a month after Vestager

By Marine Strauss Brussels - There is no clear need to make technological giants help to pay for 5G and broadband rollout, Belgium's telecoms regulator IBPT-BIPT said on Monday. Europe's telecoms operators have tried to push for major companies, such as Google

By Yuvraj Malik and Zaheer Kachwala Big Tech: (Reuters) - U.S. technology giants are likely to post their strongest quarterly revenue growth in at least a year as their legacy businesses stabilized, but investors looking for signs of a boost from