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      Facebook, Instagram may cut fees by nearly 50% in scramble for DMA compliance

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 19 March - 16:42

    Facebook, Instagram may cut fees by nearly 50% in scramble for DMA compliance

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    Meta is considering cutting monthly subscription fees for Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union nearly in half to comply with the Digital Market Act (DMA), Reuters reported .

    During a day-long public workshop on Meta's DMA compliance, Meta's competition and regulatory director, Tim Lamb, told the European Commission (EC) that individual subscriber fees could be slashed from 9.99 euros to 5.99 euros. Meta is hoping that reducing fees will help to speed up the EC's process for resolving Meta's compliance issues. If Meta's offer is accepted, any additional accounts would then cost 4 euros instead of 6 euros.

    Lamb said that these prices are "by far the lowest end of the range that any reasonable person should be paying for services of these quality," calling it a "serious offer."

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      On pourra remplacer Apple Plans par Google Maps comme app de cartographie par défaut sur l’iPhone

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Sunday, 17 March - 13:00

    Google Maps

    Apple se prépare à un changement de taille dans iOS, qui permettra aux utilisateurs européens de choisir leur application de navigation par défaut à la place de Plans. Cette évolution s'inscrit dans le cadre du respect de la nouvelle réglementation européenne sur les marchés numériques (DMA).
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      iOS : Apple vous laissera bientôt télécharger des applis depuis un site web

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Tuesday, 12 March - 16:14

    Apple Store Barcelone

    Apple confirme qu'il autorisera bientôt le téléchargement d'applications iOS depuis des sites web en Europe. Une petite révolution qui reste soumise à certaines règles strictes.
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      On DMA eve, Google whines, Apple sounds alarms, and TikTok wants out

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 6 March - 19:58

    On DMA eve, Google whines, Apple sounds alarms, and TikTok wants out

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    For months, some of the biggest tech companies have been wrapped up in discussions with the European Commission (EC), seeking feedback and tweaking their plans to ensure their core platform services comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) ahead of that law taking force in the European Union tomorrow.

    Under the DMA, companies designated as gatekeepers—Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft—must follow strict rules to ensure that they don't engage in unfair business practices that could limit consumer choice in core platform services. These include app stores, search engines, social networking services, online marketplaces, operating systems, web browsers, advertising services, cloud computing services, virtual assistants, and certain messaging services.

    At its heart, the DMA requires more interoperability than ever, making it harder for gatekeepers to favor their own services or block other businesses from reaching consumers on their platforms.

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      Yelp: It’s gotten worse since Google made changes to comply with EU rules

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Saturday, 24 February - 11:34 · 1 minute · 3 visibility

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    To comply with looming rules that ban tech giants from favoring their own services, Google has been testing new look search results for flights, trains, hotels, restaurants, and products in Europe. The EU’s Digital Markets Act is supposed to help smaller companies get more traffic from Google, but reviews service Yelp says that when it tested Google’s design tweaks with consumers it had the opposite effect—making people less likely to click through to Yelp or another Google competitor.

    The results, which Yelp shared with European regulators in December and WIRED this month, put some numerical backing behind complaints from Google rivals in travel, shopping, and hospitality that its efforts to comply with the DMA are insufficient—and potentially more harmful than the status quo. Yelp and thousands of others have been demanding that the EU hold a firm line against the giant companies including Apple and Amazon that are subject to what’s widely considered the world’s strictest antitrust law, violations of which can draw fines of up to 10 percent of global annual sales.

    “All the gatekeepers are trying to hold on as long as possible to the status quo and make the new world unattractive,” says Richard Stables, CEO of shopping comparison site Kelkoo, which is unhappy with how Google has tweaked shopping results to comply with the DMA. “That’s really the game plan.”

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      Opera va lancer un navigateur web sur iOS basé sur l’IA

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Saturday, 3 February - 17:00

    Navigateurs

    Opera a annoncé le lancement d'un nouveau navigateur propulsé par l'intelligence artificielle, Opera One, pour les utilisateurs d'iOS en Europe. Une nouveauté qui fait suite à l'ouverture permise par la législation sur les marchés numériques (DMA) de l'Union européenne, qui contraint Apple à autoriser l'utilisation d'autres moteurs de rendu dans les navigateurs sur l'iPhone.
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      Apple : pourquoi 2024 est l’année de tous les dangers ?

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Saturday, 27 January - 09:00

    Apple Wwdc23 Tim Cook Apple Vision Pro

    Pour l'entreprise de Tim Cook, l'année 2024 est celle de tous les défis. Entre la sortie du Vision Pro, la réglementation européenne ou encore l'intelligence artificielle, la Pomme devra faire les bons choix.