Facing Antitrust Charges from the us government. Its about how google pays its partners to promote its Search Engine on their products. For instance, paying apple to have google as the default Search Engine on its new devices. Thats not a problem unless, as alleged by the Department Ofjustice, its anti competitive and exclusionary. Google disagrees. Well, earlier i spoke to Cristina Caffarra shes a Competition Expert and has been involved in antitrust cases in the us for many years. She outlined just how important this case is. It is a momentous event, really, because it is finally the time when google comes to meet the law and notjust the law in europe where it has been essentially, met the law before. Europe has tried to bring google under some sort of control, but has not succeeded. For the first time google faces american, us law, the Department Ofjustice and the state attorneys general. The allegation, as you alluded to, is that google monopolises search. Its market share in searc
To have killed 2,800 after a powerful storm swept through the east of the country. As many as 10,000 people are reported to be missing. Much of the country has been declared a disaster zone and three days of mourning have begun. The un has said, they are deeply concerned by the situation and are mobilizing emergency teams. Widespread flooding and mudslides, caused by torrential rain, have destroyed many roads and homes. A minister in the eastern government which is not internationally recognised said more than a thousand bodies had now been recovered in the worst hit city, derna. The eastern cities of benghazi and al marj are also among the worst hit. Tamer ramadan of the International Federation of red cross and red crescent societies says the death toll from the disaster is likely to increase dramatically. The death toll is huge. It might reach 2,000s really. But we dont have a definite number. We confirm from our independent sources that the number of missing people is 10,000 perso
Than 1,000 bodies had now been recovered in the worst hit city, derna. Widespread flooding and mudslides caused by torrential rain destroyed many roads and homes. Thousands of people are still missing. Much of the country has been declared a Disaster Zone and three days of mourning have begun. A minister in the eastern government which is not internationally recognised said more than 1,000 bodies had now been recovered in the worst hit city, derna. The eastern cities of benghazi and al marj are also among the worst hit. The death toll is huge and might reach the 2,000. But we dont have a definite number. We confirm from independent sources of information that the number of missing people is hitting 10,000 persons so far. Anna foster has the latest. A torrent of water. The devastation is clear to see. The death toll is the harder to quantify. The red cross say as many as 10,000 people are missing. But in a country without a single functioning government getting information is hard. Sinc
"We have offered commitments to provide third-party developers in the European Economic Area with an option that will enable their users to make NFC contactless payments from within their iOS apps, separate from Apple Pay and Apple Wallet," Apple said in an emailed statement.
The bloc s regulator had charged Apple with restricting access to its tap-and-go mobile payment systems, based on the independent technology called Near-Field Communication (NFC), as it made it difficult for rivals to develop alterative payment options for iOS-based devices and compete with Apple Pay and Wallet apps.