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This monthly series features conversations between FT journalists and the technology industry’s leaders, innovators, and thinkers. In the latest instalment, the CEO of online platform OnlyFans talks about branching out from adult content, keeping ahead of regulation — and getting an unwelcome taste of financial exclusion
...Clearly, the BBC holds almost 80 years of audio and video archive as well as a huge text archive online. We are actively looking at whether that might be an option for us.”...
...Spain’s antitrust watchdog has drawn up a provisional €486mn ($526mn) penalty against Booking, the online travel company said on Thursday....
...“We are actually creating a form of tech regulation that is in between the US and Europe,” the official said....
...In fact, how people look online is a priority for tech companies such as Microsoft....
...While the guidelines are broadly drafted, the code is legally enforceable as part of the Digital Services Act, a core piece of legislation aimed at setting the rules on how Big Tech should police the internet...
...Meta’s new pursuit of AI agents as providing the key to the next era of online activity has brought head-on competition between the biggest tech companies a step closer....
...Sarah Cardell, the CMA chief, said the regulator was “determined to apply the lessons of history” after a small number of primarily US-based companies came to dominate the online advertising, cloud computing...
...For years, Brussels has wondered how to prevent the largest online platforms from using their market dominance to crush rivals and build monopolies....
...Old-style competition thinking would not have seen domestic cleaning robots as being in the same market as online retail and cloud computing....
...Rising demand for digital marketing services is not just a response to changing behaviours as consumers spend more time online, analysts say....
...Last year, the EU blocked US online travel site Booking Holding’s €1.63bn acquisition of Etraveli Group on competition concerns....
...This has been driven by a buoyant market for business tech and some large corporate customers....
...Also, with my background in cyber and privacy and online safety, there’s a nerdy part of me that really enjoys the challenging landscape that tech companies face at the moment....
...— How juicy online reservations get scalped and sold (New Yorker) — A flame-throwing robot dog just went on sale in the US (Gizmodo) — 27 takes on what it means to be a serious person (The Ruffian)...
...If this is the era of Big Tech and Big Pharma, providers of health tech should be on a roll. Some are....
...Tech companies pushed back on Monday against suggestions of wrongdoing....
...AI has produced a new fight between open and proprietary tech....
...tech is not going away anytime soon!...
...An even more intrusive regulator concerned about people consuming more online content than they really want could mandate a model in which people paid for what they watched....
...Five are US tech companies. Global regulators cast these tech giants as modern-day versions of railroad and oil monopolies. Multiple antitrust cases have been filed....
...But the fact that I’m getting so much pushback, and so much trolling from industry lobbyists online, makes me think Big Tech is actually pretty scared of how much progress Khan and Tai are making....
...“Under the law today there are legal prohibitions which limit free speech,” Stephen Jones, assistant treasurer who is involved in tech regulation, told Australian broadcaster ABC....
...Last year, faked clips of politicians allegedly created using AI and then spread online were found in the UK, India, Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia and Slovakia....
...Big Tech consolidated its control of the internet around 2010. Just a few gatekeepers now determine who or what will succeed online....
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