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Ofcom wants platforms to block scam ads—or risk £18m fines or 10% of global turnover.

The House passed the KIDS Act 267-117, but the Senate may reject it for lacking tougher platform safety duties.

Australia wants $68m fines and tougher audit powers as children keep bypassing its under-16 social media ban.

A blanket under-16 ban hits teens, not the platforms engineering addiction. The US should regulate feeds, data grabs and AI chatbots.

Part 3 of a sourced series on cloud economics. It's cheap to move data into the cloud and expensive to move it out. Regulators in the UK, EU, and US are now asking whether that's a market — or a trap.

Part 2 of a sourced series on cloud economics. For years, 'Azure revenue' was a percentage, not a number. How the giants define, bundle, and break out 'cloud' shapes what investors can actually see.

Part 1 of a sourced series on cloud economics. The biggest cloud companies quietly extended how long they assume a server lasts. Their own filings show what it did to profit — and 2025 is undoing it.

Meta’s AI spending may mean dilution: reports of a huge stock sale knocked shares over 5% and spotlighted Big Tech’s capital race.

Imagine a world where social media is not dominated by a few big players, but instead is made up of...

Imagine a tech giant like Google, a company known for its vast resources and cutting-edge AI,...

Part 4 of a sourced series on cloud economics. Rivals say Microsoft's licensing pushes you onto Azure. A trade group complained, settled, then a deal-cutting controversy and a new EU probe followed — no finding of guilt.

Part 5 of a sourced series on cloud economics. The EU spent five years on whether Microsoft tied Teams to Office. It ended in binding unbundling commitments — and no finding of guilt, no fine.