Category: Desktop
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Dark Cloud over Europe: Looking Beyond Innovation Gap
We need a more competitive, innovative, and fairer cloud computing market for all. Growth in Europe has been slowing for decades. Across different measures, a wide gap in GDP has opened up between the European Union and America. Europe’s households have paid the price in forgone living standards. Since 2000, real disposable income on a…
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Tumultuous road towards Digital Services Act – users, beware
Just when the negotiations on the final version of the Digital Services Act seemed to be finally over, the French Presidency of the EU Council smuggled in changes, that, as European Parliament’s policy-makers and industry experts warn, could negatively impact users of a wide range of online platforms. Stay-down obligation French Presidency again introduced the…
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Ban on targeted advertising = end to an accessible internet. Whom do you help?
75% of European consumers prefer an ad-supported internet because it is largely free to access. Ban on targeted advertising would shift this paradigm and lead to the monetisation of content across the digital space. Streets visually polluted with unappealing billboards should long have been a matter of the past. Signs that spoil view on the…