EU lists Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and a few other tech giants as ‘gatekeepers’ less than strict levels of competition rules

The logos of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft shown on a cellular cellphone with an EU flag shown in the qualifications.

Justin Tallis | AFP through Getty Images

The European Fee on Wednesday claimed it specified 6 tech giants as “gatekeepers” under its new Digital Markets Act — a rigid established of policies set to shake up the business models’ of significant electronic platforms.

The Commission explained that it deems Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and China’s ByteDance as “gatekeepers.” The phrase refers to massive world-wide-web platforms which the EU views are proscribing access to core system companies, these kinds of as on the web research, promoting, and messaging and communications.

This is a breaking news story and will be up to date shortly.

Resource

Technology

Sam Altman brings his eye-scanning identity verification startup to the UK

June 8, 2025

Sam Altman’s identity verification venture World is launching its eye-scanning Orb product in the U.K. World LONDON — World, the biometric identity verification project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is set to launch in the U.K. this week. The venture, which uses a spherical eye-scanning device called the Orb to scan people’s eyes, will […]

Technology

‘Bitcoin Family’ hides crypto codes etched onto metal cards on four continents after recent kidnappings

June 7, 2025

The Taihuttus on a ski trip to Sierra Nevada in southern Spain. They sold everything they owned in 2017 to bet on bitcoin — and now travel full-time as a family of five. Didi Taihuttu A wave of high-profile kidnappings targeting cryptocurrency executives has rattled the industry — and prompted a quiet security revolution among […]

Technology

Tesla Optimus robotics vice president Milan Kovac is leaving the company

June 6, 2025

Tesla displays Optimus next to two of its vehicles at the World Robot Conference in Beijing on Aug. 22, 2024. CNBC | Evelyn Tesla’s vice president of Optimus robotics, Milan Kovac, said on Friday that he’s leaving the company. In a post on X, Kovac thanked Tesla CEO Elon Musk and reminisced about his tenure, […]