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YouTube not liable for illegal copyrighted works on its platform, EU court adviser says
By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google's YouTube and other online platforms are not liable when users upload illegal copyrighted works onto their platforms but rightholders can ask for injuncti...
Jul 16, 2020
Twitter shares stumble after high-profile, unprecedented hack
(Reuters) - Shares of Twitter Inc dropped more than 4% in pre-market trading on Thursday, a day after hackers gained access to the social media company's internal systems to hijack accounts of several...
Jul 16, 2020
EU regulators to probe Alexa, Siri and other voice assistants
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU competition regulators are seeking information from 400 companies to establish if there are problems in the market for voice assistants such as Alexa and Siri a...
Jul 16, 2020
Amazon India demands product listings have country of origin by August 10
By Sankalp Phartiyal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's India unit has told sellers they must provide country of origin information on product listings by August 10, according to an email sent by ...
Jul 16, 2020
Communication collapse: Inside Facebook’s tussle with Brazil’s central bank
By Carolina Mandl and Marcela Ayres SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Allowing millions of Brazilian users of Facebook's WhatsApp to send money as easily as texts seemed a golden opportunity for the worl...
Jul 16, 2020
Alibaba’s UCWeb lays off India staff, Club Factory halts payments after app ban
By Sankalp Phartiyal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's subsidiary UC Web is slashing staff in India after a ban on 59 Chinese-origin mobile apps that includes UC Web's browser and two ...
Jul 16, 2020
EU’s Vestager says court rulings on Apple taxes, EU data transfer tool are a ‘loss’
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Thursday that EU court rulings this week, which saw courts reject a key EU tool used to transfer Europeans' persona...
Jul 16, 2020
Privacy activist Schrems welcomes EU court decision on Facebook
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems on Thursday welcomed a decision by the European Union's top court in his case against Facebook, saying the legal basis for more then 5,000 U.S....
Jul 16, 2020
India’s Reliance seen emerging as bigger threat for U.S. firms like Amazon, Walmart
By Aditya Kalra and Nivedita Bhattacharjee NEW DELHI/BENGALURU (Reuters) - A $20 billion fund raising spree may take India's Reliance closer to its dream of becoming a digital giant, further threateni...
Jul 16, 2020
EU top court rejects EU-U.S. data transfer tool, backs another tool
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Europe's top court on Thursday rejected a key EU tool used to transfer Europeans' personal data across the Atlantic for commercial use but upheld the validity of another tool us...
Jul 16, 2020
