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(Reuters) -Russian internet giant Yandex said on Friday that Arkady Volozh had stepped down as CEO and left the board of directors after the European Union included him on its latest list of sanctions against Russian entities and individuals. Volozh, who co-founded the Yandex search engine in 1997, was put under EU sanctions on Friday after the bloc accused him of “materially or financially” supporting Russia, which sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb…. Source link

Alphabet’s Google, Meta Platform’s Facebook, Amazon, and other large online platforms will have to do more to police content online or face heavy fines under new European Union rules. The Digital Services Act (DSA), which was agreed by the EU’s 27 member states over the weekend, seeks to protect online users, for example by banning advertising aimed at children or ads based on race, religion or political views. Tactics that trick people into giving away sensitive data will… Source link

Alphabet’s Google, Meta Platform’s Facebook, Amazon, and other large online platforms will have to do more to police content online or face heavy fines under new European Union rules. The Digital Services Act (DSA), which was agreed by the EU’s 27 member states over the weekend, seeks to protect online users, for example by banning advertising aimed at children or ads based on race, religion or political views. Tactics that trick people into giving away sensitive data will… Source link

By Josh Beckerman Yandex NV said the company and its subsidiaries aren’t a target of sanctions against Russia, nor are any members of its board, management or principal shareholders. The search engine and ride-hailing company, in an “update on the impact of current geopolitical developments,” said it is analyzing new export controls and working closely with vendors. Yandex is one of several U.S.-listed Russian stocks that have been halted after Russia’s invasion of… Source link

Alphabet Inc’s Google made $147 billion in revenue from online ads in 2020, more than any other company in the world, with ads including search, YouTube and Gmail accounting for the bulk of its overall sales and profits. About 16% of its revenue came from the company’s display or network business, in which other media companies use Google technology to sell ads on their website and apps. The European Commission opened an investigation in June into whether Google favours its own online display… Source link

BRUSSELS, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Google (GOOGL.O) on Friday was targeted in an antitrust complaint by the European Publishers Council over its digital advertising business, potentially strengthening EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager’s investigation into the issue. Alphabet Inc’s Google made $147 billion in revenue from online ads in 2020, more than any other company in the world, with ads including search, YouTube and Gmail accounting for the bulk of its overall sales and profits. read more

Google has said it will provide 10,000 “high-risk” users with free hardware security keys, days after the company warned thousands of Gmail users that they were targeted by state-sponsored hackers. The warning, sent by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), alerted more than 14,000 Gmail users that they had been targeted in a state-sponsored phishing campaign from APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, said to be made up of operatives of Russia’s GRU intelligence… Source link

Russian tech company Yandex said a cyberattack on its servers this summer was the largest known distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in the history of the Internet. In a September 9 blog post, Yandex said it had identified a powerful new botnet, a network of computers infected with malware and controlled without the owners’ knowledge, that has also carried out DDoS attacks in other countries. A DDoS attack is a hacking attempt to disrupt the traffic of a targeted server or network… Source link

Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google could be forced to overhaul their business practices under a new expansive set of antitrust reforms introduced by a bipartisan group of House lawmakers on Friday. The package of five bills, earlier reported by CNBC and other outlets, would make it harder for dominant platforms to complete mergers and prohibit them from owning businesses that present clear conflicts of interest. The legislation represents the most comprehensive effort to reform century-old… Source link

Google has announced plans to stop using tracking cookies on its Chrome browser by 2022, replacing them with a group profiling system in a move the company says will plot “a course towards a more privacy-friendly web”. The change is significant. Chrome commands some two-thirds of the web browser market. Third-party tracking cookies, meanwhile, underpin much of the targeted advertising industry. And, while Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari have already stopped supporting… Source link