“An extremely negative signal”: French court dismisses search engine Qwant's case against Microsoft

"In a ruling handed down on Thursday, the Competition Authority found that Microsoft did not abuse its dominant position. This is a setback for Qwant, which is seeking to break free from its dependence on the American giant.

The verdict is in, and it does not favor Qwant. The French search engine, which has been engaged in legal proceedings for nearly a year against Microsoft, accusing it of abusing its dominant position in the B2B search engine market, has been dismissed by the Competition Authority.

In its verdict handed down on Thursday, the authority found that Qwant had not provided “sufficient evidence” to demonstrate that the American giant was dominant in the market in question, nor that “the conditions for abuse of economic dependence were met.”

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https://www.lesechos.fr/tech-medias/hightech/un-signal-extremement-negatif-la-justice-francaise-deboute-le-moteur-de-recherche-qwant-dans-son-litige-avec-microsoft-2201389

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Met de lancering van de website dutch-alternatives.nl is er nu een centraal overzicht beschikbaar van soevereine, Nederlandse cloudproviders. Het initiatief, ontstaan vanuit de Dutch Cloud Community (DCC), brengt het diverse aanbod van de Nederlandse IT-industrie in kaart.

https://dutch-alternatives.nl/

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QUESTION: How could we urge and support informative news channels as TLDR News EU or EU Made Simple to duplicate their YT contents in the Fediverse, possible on a PeerTube server?

How could they make money here?

Do you have any other reccommendations for channels to be targeted?

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It's now possible to filter for language (en, fr, de) in the news component on videum. (Home page only for now, implementation for the news page coming soon) #europeanAlternatives #buyEuropan #deGoogle #youtubeAlternative

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The US forced TikTok to divest its American operations, citing national security and data protection - yet when the EU tries to regulate big tech with similar arguments to protect its own sovereignty and citizens, Washington cries "free market" and "free speech," threatening sanctions instead.

While the US acts on potential risks with TikTok, the EU faces actual, daily violations of its values by big tech platforms.

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MY NEW FAMILY STACK UNDER TESTING

- Managed Nextcloud at Ionos
--- Files, Contacts, Notes, Calendars, Tasks, Bookmarks
--- External storage linked at pcCloud
- Brave browser
--- Floccus extension and mobile app for bookmark sync.
- Tasks.org mobile app
- DAVx5 mobile app for calendar, contacts, tasks sync with Nextcloud
- Proton Pass
- Thunderbird mail client
- Matrix.org messaging with Element X/ FluffyChat
- Collabora Office

Thoughts & suggestions?

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