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The Chinese online clothes retailer Shein is set to face strict EU digital rules after the European Commission classified the company as a "very large online platform" (VLOP) on Friday. Businesses classified as VLOPs and search engines with more than 45 million active users per month are subject to particularly strict requirements. These include submitting a risk assessment once a year concerning harmful content and proposing countermeasures. They also have to share data with authorities and researchers. Requirements also include countering the sale of counterfeit goods and harmful products. O...
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If fears about “the bomb” permeated life in the mid-20th century, the video game “Fallout” takes that premise to its worst conclusion. In a post-nuclear wasteland, some survivors have been recreating their 1950s-era idyll underground in elaborate bomb shelters called vaults. Those less lucky have been eking out a life on the surface, where it is dusty and brutal, and nasty oddities abound in the form of ghouls, who exist in a liminal space between human and zombie. How the hell did we get here? The Amazon TV adaptation explains by toggling between two timelines: Los Angeles of the 1950s and wh...
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Italy's antitrust authority has imposed a fine of €10 million ($10.7 million) on the US retail giant Amazon for unfair business practices, but the company said it would appeal the fine. The Italian competition authority said on Wednesday in Rome that on Amazon's Italian website, the purchase option for many products was automatically set to "regular" instead of "one-off." This considerably restricts consumer choice, it said. In any event, a €10 million fine is unlikely to matter much to the US company, as the retail giant posted more than €10 million in profit in the fourth quarter of 2023 alo...
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Italy's antitrust authority has imposed a fine of €10 million ($10.7 million) on the US retail giant Amazon for unfair business practices. The Italian competition authority said on Wednesday in Rome that on Amazon's Italian website, the purchase option for many products was automatically set to "regular" instead of "one-off." This considerably restricts consumer choice, it said. Two Amazon subsidiaries are affected: Amazon Services Europe, based in Luxembourg, and Amazon EU. The amount of the fine is unlikely to matter much to the US company, as the retail giant posted more than $10.7 billion ...
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"Hey, what's the weather like along the route?" When BMW developer Justin Forsyth gets into the prototype of the new Mini Countryman, he no longer has to press any buttons or tap into screen menus. That's because the next generation of the popular small car will also see a new digital assistant go into series production. "It has its very own character, British accent and a touch of English humour", said Forsyth, who works as a programmer at the manufacturer's tech office in Silicon Valley. Forsyth quipped that he was once reprimanded by the car for being a late riser by the chatbot when he onc...
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Amazon boss Andy Jassy has criticized competition regulators in Brussels and Washington for torpedoing his company's purchase of robot vacuum cleaner pioneer iRobot. Jassy pointed out on Thursday that iRobot was struggling to keep up with Chinese rivals after the deal was cancelled. He also raised concerns about data security, because modern vacuum-cleaner robots create a 3D scan of the home. "Really, what Western regulators were saying is that they trust these two large Chinese companies with maps of the inside of US consumers' homes more than they do Amazon," Jassy complained in an interview...
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US retail and tech giant Amazon identified and properly disposed of more than 7 million counterfeit products worldwide last year, according to a report it published on Tuesday. Since its inception in 2020, the company's Counterfeit Crimes Unit "has pursued more than 21,000 bad actors through litigation and criminal referrals to law enforcement," Amazon vice president Dharmesh Mehta said. Measures against product piracy relate to articles that were to be brought into the logistics cycle of the world's largest online retailer as well as cases in which Amazon was able to provide companies and aut...
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When "Road House" came out in 1989, the reviews were overwhelmingly negative. The action thriller with Patrick Swayze in the lead role garnered several nominations for Hollywood's awful-films prize, the "Golden Raspberries," including the category of worst film. But even a guru film reviewer like Roger Ebert conceded at the time that the film was very entertaining. In the meantime, "Road House" enjoys cult status. Now, director Doug Liman ("The Bourne Identity") has filmed the story of the bouncer Dalton anew, this time with Jake Gyllenhaal. The flick unspools on Thursday on Prime Video. Doing...
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US e-commerce giant Amazon and China's multinational tech corporation Huawei have ended a row over patents. Amazon and Huawei have reached a multi-year patent cross-licence agreement that resolves pending litigation between them, Huawei said in a statement on Monday. "Amazon respects Huawei's worldwide patent portfolio, innovations, and contributions to the standardization process," stated Scott Hayden, vice president of intellectual property for Amazon. "Amazon also respects Huawei's efforts to license its patents to companies like Amazon, which frequently use industry technical standards whe...
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German carmaker BMW has successfully brought a civil case alongside e-commerce giant Amazon to block the sale of counterfeit BMW parts and accessories at the European Union's Trademark Court in the Spanish city of Alicante. The court ruled that four Spanish residents had attempted to sell counterfeit BMW parts and accessories on the online platform throughout Europe, the two companies announced in a joint statement on Thursday. The court ordered the fraudsters to destroy the counterfeit products and pay compensation to the plaintiffs. It is the first success of its kind in court in Spain that ...
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