Tag: Gafam
Digital Markets Act: green light from European institutions to better regulate Gafam practices
3 EU member states, the Commission and the European Parliament have reached a final agreement on the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Its entry into force could take place in January…
Digital Services Act: Gafam invited to finance their supervision by the European Commission
Margrethe Vestager, the EU competition commissioner, is proposing to make tech giants pay to give the European Commission enough resources to monitor their compliance. A mechanism already used at the…
Facebook, quarter of Gafam
CHRONICLE – Flickering Facebook, the housing battle and the nationalization of EDF: Jacques-Olivier Martin’s notebook. Should we erase the F of the famous Gafam? With a capitalization of 650 billion…
Market: Apple, Amazon and Alphabet applauded, Facebook overwhelmed, zoom on GAFAM results
(BFM Bourse) – The 5 technological giants whose combined valuation is close to 10,000 billion dollars all reported record revenues and profits for the whole of 2021. But some still…
French operators want to charge GAFAM to use their networks
Alexander Schmid February 04, 2022 at 2:25 p.m. 10 © Alexandre Boero for Clubic The networks of French operators must be very solid to support the load of Internet traffic.…
Why Facebook has become the weak link of Gafam
DECRYPTION – Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft… all are merged into a single acronym. However, their economic models are radically different. By dint of raving about the irresistible rise of…
Future regulation of GAFAM in Europe: Google and others ask the US government to intervene
Alexandre boero December 23, 2021 at 11:45 am 6 © Koshiro K / Shutterstock.com the digital giants regulation project , which continues its good way in Europe, worries more and…
Episode 1: Web 3.0 attacking GAFAM?
Evolution of annual FAAMNG turnover in billions of dollarsbetween 2005 to 2020. Source: Statista Criticism has spread against these data merchants, perhaps a little too late since they are now…
“In the cloud, we must now cooperate with Gafam while protecting data”
IThey house your data and are expensive. More and more expensive as the flows swell on the Internet with the deployment of 5G and fiber, in turn causing the proliferation…
“Europe must invest in a public cloud without going through Gafam infrastructures”
Tribune. Satellites have been used for environmental monitoring since the 1980s. While the main Earth observation programs until then were predominantly American, the European Union struck a blow by launching…