European regulators crack down on Big Tech

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Oct 3 (Reuters) - A raid by French antitrust authorities of the offices of a technology firm named as Nvidia (NVDA.O) in media reports is the latest among a string of such actions by European regulators against Big Tech companies...

Here are some of the actions taken by European watchdogs to keep a tab on big technology companies:..

Meta Platforms (META.O) offered in July to curb the use of competitors' advertising data for its Facebook Marketplace online classified service in an attempt to settle an EU antitrust investigation but regulators rebuffed it, people familiar with the matter said...

In September, the EU picked out 22 so-called "gatekeeper" services run by Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and TikTok-owner ByteDance, giving them six months to comply with the provisions of its wide-ranging Digital Markets Act (DMA)...

The antitrust authority in July said Apple may have violated regulations related to the utilisation of iPhone user data in advertising and could potentially misuse its dominant market position by imposing biased, unclear, and unfair conditions to handle user data...

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