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Google ‘Considered’ Buying Epic Games to Stop Lawsuits!
As you’re probably aware, Epic Games is currently in the middle of more than a few legal battles as it attempts to take on both Apple and Google and, specifically, the commission they charge for sales on their respective platforms. Put simply, Epic Games doesn’t think that it’s fair that…
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Philips Get Fined By EU For Inflating Online Prices
Philips Get Fined By EU For Inflating Online Prices Philips is, without a doubt, one of the best-known brands in terms of home electronics. Be it a hairdryer or a TV it’s very likely that you own at least one of their products somewhere in your home. It seems, however,…
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US Commission To Study Games and Social Media But Not Guns
US Commission to Study Video Games and Social Media But Not Firearms! With school shootings being an unfortunately all-too-common event in America, Donald Trump has made his intentions fairly clear in this regard. Rather than attempting to solve the problem of guns in America, instead games and social media are…
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Mark Zuckerberg EU Meeting Deemed Missed Opportunity
Mark Zuckerberg EU Meeting Deemed Disappointing and missed opportunity Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg faced the EU Commission to discuss the recent data scandal and other matters which rocked the social media site. Specifically, how it intends to deal with much of the criticism leveled at it. There has, after all, been…
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Tim Cook: Apple “Hasn’t Done Anything Wrong”
Recently, the EU Commission made a landmark ruling regarding Apple’s tax affairs and told the company to pay back a whopping 13 billion Euros in unpaid taxes from the period 1991-2015. Apparently, Apple only paid a tax rate of 1% in 2003 which dropped even further to 0.005% in 2014.…
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Apple Told to Repay 13 Billion Euros in Tax Avoidance Fiasco
Apple has been accused of tax avoidance from the period 1991-2015 and experienced a lengthy investigation by the EU Commission. It was alleged that Apple avoided tax on almost all sales within the EU’s single market and set a base in Ireland instead of the product’s point of sale to avoid paying a higher…
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Games Prices In Europe Set To Be Unified
Europe is looking towards a more technological environment, where companies and countries can operate knowing that there is a standard across the board for everything that may impact that their work. This could soon be the same for games as well thanks to the European Commission. The Digital Single Market outlines…
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Amazon is Now Paying Full UK Taxes
The company that wants to bring us drone deliveries and deliveries to our cars has now changed its ways in terms of paying taxes. Up until recently, Amazon sifted sales through Luxembourg as to avoid profit Tax. In 2013, Amazon booked a huge £4.7 billion of UK sales through Luxembourg which…
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Geo-Blocking Could Become A Thing Of The Past
Geo-Blocking has been a hot topic in recent years, and even more so in recent years. The term is applied to the process by which certain digital media, most notably online videos are limited to certain countries based on where their IP says they are, but this may be set…
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EU Committee Delays Roaming Fees Removal
There have been a lot of talks these past two years regarding the abolishment of roaming fees in the European Union’s member states. Last year, we heard that the EU Commission was voting to scrap the fees altogether and have them removed by 2016. However, this might not be the…
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