Kelvin Chan

Kelvin Chan

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  • INDIA &#8211; 2024/09/16: In this photo illustration, a Google logo seen displayed on a smartphone with an European Union logo in the background. Google&#8217;s relationship with the European Union (EU) has been marked by regulatory scrutiny, particularly around issues of competition, data privacy, and digital market practices. The EU has fined Google multiple times for antitrust violations, including practices related to its search engine, advertising business, and Android operating system, totaling billions of euros.<br /> The EU has also imposed strict data privacy regulations through the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), requiring Google to change its data collection, storage, and usage practices. In response, Google has had to adjust its business models in Europe, including providing users with more control over their data and offering more transparency in advertising. The relationship continues to evolve as the EU introduces new regulations, such as the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA), aiming to create a fairer and more competitive digital landscape. (Photo Illustration by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Tech

    Google wins legal bid to overturn $1.7 billion EU antitrust fine over its online ad business

    By Kelvin Chan and The Associated Press
  • Elon Musk

    Elon Musk and European Commissioner argue over ‘secret deal’ after regulators say X’s blue checks are deceptive

    By Kelvin Chan, The Associated Press, and others
  • Tim Cook throws up deucesTech

    Apple breathes a sigh of relief as the EU closes its antitrust case, which could have cost the iPhone maker tens of billions of dollars

    By Kelvin Chan and The Associated Press
  • Thierry Breton, internal market commissioner for the European Union (EU), at the VivaTech conference in Paris, France, on Friday, May 24, 2024. The annual startup and technology event runs until May 25. Photographer: Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Europeans must pay Meta $10 a month to avoid being tracked. Regulators say that’s not good enough

    By Kelvin Chan and The Associated Press
  • Woman walking using mobile phone with Eiffel Tower in the backgroundLifestyle

    How to travel on a budget in Europe this summer? Use a roaming eSIM to avoid data fees

    By Kelvin Chan and The Associated Press
  • McDonald's chicken sandwich and friesRetail

    McDonald’s loses the right to call its chicken burgers ‘Big Macs’ in Europe—a win for its Irish competitor and the ’respect of poultry products’

    By Kelvin Chan and The Associated Press
  • Woman shopping on phoneTech

    Chinese shopping giant Temu is in the crosshairs of the EU’s digital surveillance crackdown

    By The Associated Press and Kelvin Chan
  • EclipseEnvironment

    Want a picture of the total solar eclipse? Here’s how to track it and prepare to get the best shot possible

    By Kelvin Chan and The Associated Press
  • FILE &#8211; Viewers use special glasses to watch from San Antonio, as the moon moves in front of the sun during an annular solar eclipse, or ring of fire, Oct. 14, 2023. The total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 may be weeks away but businesses are ready for the celestial event with oodles of special eclipse glasses for sale, along with T-shirts and other souvenirs. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)Tech

    The total solar eclipse is about to arrive. Here’s how to use apps to track and photograph it

    By Kelvin Chan and The Associated Press
  • European Commission Vice-President in charge of Europe fit for the digital age and Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager gives a press conference on EU probes Apple, Google, Meta under new digital law at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on March 25, 2024. The EU hit Apple, Google parent Alphabet and Meta on March 25, 2024 with the first ever probes under a mammoth digital law, which could lead to big fines against the US giants. The European Commission, the EU&#8217;s antitrust regulator, announced that it &#8220;suspects that the measures put in place by these gatekeepers fall short of effective compliance of their obligations under the DMA&#8221;,the bloc&#8217;s Digital Markets Act. Since March 7, six of the world&#8217;s biggest tech companies &#8211; Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, TikTok owner ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft, have had to comply with the EU&#8217;s landmark DMA after being named so-called &#8220;gatekeepers&#8221;. (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) (Photo by KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    Apple, Google and Meta hit with investigations in first cases under sweeping new EU law designed to stop Big Tech from cornering digital markets

    By Kelvin Chan and The Associated Press
  • Attorney General Merrick Garland accompanied by New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, Thursday, March 21, 2024. The Justice Department on Thursday announced a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of engineering an illegal monopoly in smartphones that boxes out competitors and stifles innovation. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Tech

    Apple’s regulatory battle with Europe offers a preview of what’s coming for American consumers

    By Kelvin Chan and The Associated Press
  • WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; MARCH 12: Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray listens at a hearing with the House Select Intelligence Committee in the Cannon Office Building on March 12, 2024 in Washington, DC. Leaders from the U.S. intelligence community are participating in hearings with both the Senate and House intelligence committees to lay out their perceived global threats to the United States. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Politics

    AI is supercharging election disinformation worldwide as more than 50 countries head to the polls in 2024

    By Ali Swenson, Kelvin Chan, and others
  • App icons of online platforms Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, Apple Store, and TikTok are being displayed on a smartphone with the EU Digital Market Act (DMA) in this photo illustration, taken in Brussels, Belgium, on February 17, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Tech

    Tech’s 6 ‘gatekeepers’—including Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft—are about to face heavy new scrutiny as Europe aims for ‘fairer’ digital markets

    By Kelvin Chan and The Associated Press
  • Margrethe VestagerTech

    EU watchdog on Apple’s first antitrust penalty over music streaming: ‘This is illegal. And it has impacted millions of European consumers’

    By Kelvin Chan and The Associated Press
  • Sam AltmanTech

    Sam Altman is ‘perverting’ OpenAI’s mission, Elon Musk claims in lawsuit

    By Kelvin Chan, Thalia Beaty, and others