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Today, the Commission organised a high-level conference on the future of the Single Digital Gateway. The event is an opportunity to take stock of the Single Digital Gateway, which four years into its implementation, offers a range of practical information, advice and access to various administrative procedures to help businesses expand abroad and citizens to exercise their rights when living, travelling, working or studying in the EU.

Recognising this momentum, the Commission also laid out plans for the next stage in the development of the Single Digital Gateway, with the objective of helping to consolidate the Single Market’s integration and to support Europe’s competitiveness. 

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With the Digital Markets Act, the European Union has become a testing ground on everything from how video games are sold online to the information available for use in targeted advertising.

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The DMA is already transforming how big tech does business in Europe, and given that EU digital laws tend to become global standards — what Anu Bradford of Columbia Law School has called the “Brussels effect” — Europe has become a testing ground for the future of digital markets, impacting everything from how video games are sold online to the information available for use in targeted advertising to the ease with which users can communicate between platforms and devices, whether its sending videos from an iPhone to an Android device or texting between iMessenger and WhatsApp.

The legislation is complicated but, in general, platforms designated as “gatekeepers” — those with a market value of €75 billion ($81.7 billion) or annual revenue of at least €7.5 billion ($8.17 billion) within the EU, and at least 45 million monthly end-users on at least one core platform — are required to take proactive steps to ensure their services treat competitors fairly and to allow customers to pick and choose among digital services, whatever hardware or operating system they are using. The DMA will initially apply to six “gatekeeper” companies: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, TikTok owner ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft.

In Europe, the message for tech giants is “with power comes responsibility” said EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, speaking at SXSW on March 11. And Europe is ready to punish companies that act irresponsibly. The DMA includes penalties allowing the EU to fine first-time DMA offenders up to 10 percent of their company’s total worldwide turnover and double that for repeat infringements. To get an idea of the scale of these punishments: If Meta broke the DMA rules, it could cost the company $13.4 billion (10 percent of the company’s 2023 worldwide revenue of $134 billion) for its first offense.

As if to show it means business, on March 4 the EU levied a €1.8 billion ($2 billion) fine on Apple for unfairly favoring its own music streaming service by forbidding rivals like Spotify from telling users how they could pay for cheaper subscriptions outside of iPhone apps. In a separate antitrust action against Google, the EU filed the company €2.42 billion ($2.64 billion) for favoring its own price comparison shopping service over smaller European rivals.

Both Apple and Google are appealing the penalties.

But in a similar DMA-related dispute with Epic Games, producers of Fortnite , Apple backed down, reversing a previous decision to block an Epic Games app store for iOS that would circumvent Apple’s online stores.

Before Europe’s law even went into effect, and before the full impact of the legislation could be assessed, governments from London to Tokyo were rushing to write their own copycat versions of the DMA. It’s a repeat of what happened with Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy law, enacted in 2018, which became the model for at least 150 similar regulations worldwide, including California’s Consumer Privacy Act.

“Already we’re seeing copies of this Digital Markets Act, or variations of it, appear in places like Japan, the U.K., Brazil, Mexico, even India,” says Bill Echikson, a senior fellow with the think tank the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). “I think, in the democratic world [the DMA] will become the de facto standard.”

Smaller media companies, particularly in Europe, are hopeful the DMA will allow them to break the hold the international giants have on the digital market. Ahead of the legislation, Germany’s top two commercial TV companies, RTL Deutschland and ProSiebenSat.1 launched a joint adtech partnership to offer broadcasters and publishers across Europe the ability to do cross-platform ad campaigns “independent of the U.S. tech giants.”

But Echikson warns the DMA might have the opposite effect and actually help “reinforce the gatekeepers” because the global tech giants will be able to use their dominant position to squeeze out their competitors.

The E.U.’s Regulatory Crackdown: The Highlights

July 2021 – Amazon fined €746 million ($888 million) for violating EU data protection rules (GDPR).

September 2022 – Google fined €4.12 billion ($4.13 billion) for using its Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals.

April 2023 – Ireland’s data regulator fined TikTok €345 million ($377 million) for breaking EU data law in its handling of children’s accounts.

May 2023 – Meta fined €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) for violating GDPR.

June 2023 – Microsoft discloses it has set aside $425 million in anticipation of a fine it expects to receive from Ireland’s data regulator for violations of GDPR by its LinkedIn subsidiary.

March 2024 – Apple fined €1.8 billion ($2 billion) over abusive App store rules for music streaming providers.

(Note: Fines may be reduced or overturned on appeal.)

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Accenture to Expand Public Service Digital Transformation Capabilities Across Europe with Acquisition of Arηs Group

NEW YORK and BELVAUX, Luxembourg; Mar. 18, 2024 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has agreed to acquire Arηs (pronounced Aris) Group, a technology services provider focused on supporting public sector transformation across Europe.

The acquisition will further enhance Accenture’s public service offering, drawing on a wide range of innovative solutions to help clients take advantage of a full continuum of technology expertise and accelerate their digital transformation.

Based in Luxembourg and privately held, Arηs Group was founded in 2003 and has grown into one of the largest independent service providers in Europe’s public sector market. With a team of more than 2,330 people across Luxembourg, Belgium, and Greece primarily, Arηs Group focuses on work with the European Union, including the EU Commission, its various institutions and member state organizations.

Arηs Group specializes in the management of complex public sector IT projects, including systems integration, informatics and analytics, solution implementation and program management. It helps lead clients through digital and information systems design, bringing expertise in a variety of areas ranging from software development, data science and security management to machine learning, cloud, and mobile development.

Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Accenture CEO for Europe, Middle East and Africa commented, “We are committed to providing our public service clients with the right people, guidance, systems and processes to help meet the evolving needs of their constituents. The acquisition of Arηs Group will help scale our capabilities with a highly skilled workforce, a history of successful public service delivery and valued technical certifications that can quickly be mobilized to serve our clients in Europe.”

Arηs Group has extensive experience of helping drive modernization projects for European institutions. For example, many public service organizations work with Arηs Group for its specialists focused on cross-border security and data challenges.

“The addition of Arηs Group will expand our ability to deliver public service transformation services across Europe,” said Olivier Girard, market unit lead for Accenture France & Benelux. “Arηs Group’s talented team and track record, combined with Accenture’s European public service industry expertise, will strengthen our capabilities across the continent. Its public service credentials, entrepreneurial culture and extensive client portfolio are a perfect fit with ours.”

Jourdan Serderidis, founder and CEO of Arηs Group, added, “By joining Accenture, with its capabilities in digital, design, AI, cloud, security, and customer experience, we can have an even greater impact on both private and public organizations’ transformation, irrespective of size or complexity, as well as open up exciting opportunities across Europe.”

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Europe’s Digital Markets Act is forcing tech giants to make changes. Here’s what that will look like

FILE - Google’s first datacenter in Germany is pictured during its inauguration in Hanau near Frankfurt, Germany, Oct. 6, 2023. New European Union rules aimed at preventing tech companies from dominating digital markets will change what people see online starting Thursday, March 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

A pop-up message to choose a browser is displayed on the screen of an iPhone, in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday March 6, 2024. Europeans this week will get new choices for default browsers and search engines. They’re part of changes required under the Digital Markets Act, a set of European Union regulations that six tech companies classed as “gatekeepers” — Amazon, Apple, Google parent Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and TikTok owner ByteDance — will have to start following by midnight Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sylvain Plazy)

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FILE - A visitor takes a photo at the Microsoft stand at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 27, 2024. New European Union rules aimed at preventing tech companies from dominating digital markets will change what people see online starting Thursday, March 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Pau Venteo, File)

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LONDON (AP) — Europeans scrolling their phones and computers this week will get new choices for default browsers and search engines, where to download iPhone apps and how their personal online data is used.

They’re part of changes required under the Digital Markets Act , a set of European Union regulations that six tech companies classed as “gatekeepers” — Amazon, Apple, Google parent Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and TikTok owner ByteDance — will have to start following by midnight Wednesday.

The DMA is the latest in a series of regulations that Europe has passed as a global leader in reining in the dominance of large tech companies. Tech giants have responded — sometimes reluctantly — by changing some of their long-held ways of doing business, such as Apple allowing people to install smartphone apps outside of its App Store .

The new rules have broad but vague goals of making digital markets “fairer” and “more contestable.” They are kicking in as efforts around the world to crack down on the tech industry are picking up pace.

Here’s a look at how the Digital Markets Act will work:

WHAT COMPANIES HAVE TO FOLLOW THE RULES?

Some 22 services, from operating systems to messenger apps and social media platforms, will be in the DMA’s crosshairs.

They include Google services like Maps, YouTube, the Chrome browser and Android operating system, plus Amazon’s Marketplace and Apple’s Safari Browser and iOS.

Meta’s Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are included as well as Microsoft’s Windows and LinkedIn.

The companies face the threat of hefty fines worth up to 20% of their annual global revenue for repeated violations — which could amount to billions of dollars — or even a breakup of their businesses for “systematic infringements.”

WHAT EFFECT WILL THE RULES HAVE GLOBALLY?

The Digital Markets Act is a fresh milestone for the 27-nation European Union in its longstanding role as a worldwide trendsetter in clamping down on the tech industry.

The bloc has previously hit Google with whopping fines in antitrust cases, rolled out tough rules to clean up social media and is bringing in world-first artificial intelligence regulations .

Now, places like Japan, Britain, Mexico, South Korea, Australia, Brazil and India are drawing up their own versions of DMA-like rules aimed at preventing tech companies from dominating digital markets.

“We’re seeing copycats around the world already,” said Bill Echikson, senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, a Washington-based think tank. The DMA “will become the defacto standard” for digital regulation in the democratic world, he said.

Officials will be looking to Brussels for guidance , said Zach Meyers, assistant director at the Center for European Reform, a think tank in London.

“If it works, many Western countries will probably try to follow the DMA to avoid fragmentation and the risk of taking a different approach that fails,” he said.

HOW WILL DOWNLOADING APPS CHANGE?

In one of the biggest changes, Apple has said it will let European iPhone users download apps outside its App Store, which comes installed on its mobile devices.

The company has long resisted such a move, with a big chunk of its revenue coming from the 30% fee it charges for payments — such as for Disney+ subscriptions — made through iOS apps. Apple has warned that “sideloading” apps will come with added security risks.

Now, Apple is cutting those fees it collects from app developers in Europe that opt to stay within the company’s payment-processing system. But it’s adding a 50-euro cent fee for each iOS app installed through third-party app stores, which critics say will deter the many existing free apps — whose developers currently don’t pay any fee — from jumping ship.

“Why would they possibly opt into a world where they have to pay a 50 cent per-user fee?” said Avery Gardiner, Spotify’s global director of competition policy. “So those alternative app stores will never get traction, because they’ll be missing this huge chunk of apps that would need to be there in order for customers to find the store attractive.”

“That is utterly at odds with the very purpose of the DMA,” Gardiner added.

Brussels will be closely scrutinizing whether tech companies are complying.

EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager said this week that after 10 years on the job, “I have seen quite a number of antitrust cases and quite a lot of creativity built into how to work around the rules that we have.”

HOW WILL PEOPLE GET MORE OPTIONS ONLINE?

Consumers won’t be forced into default choices for key services.

Android users can pick which search engine to use by default, while iPhone users will get to choose which browser will be their go-to. Europeans will see choice screens on their devices. Microsoft, meanwhile, will stop forcing people to use its Edge browser.

The idea is to stop people from being nudged into using Apple’s Safari browser or Google’s Search app. But smaller players still worry that they might end up worse off than before.

Users might just stick with what they recognize because they don’t know anything about the other options, said Christian Kroll, CEO of Berlin-based search engine Ecosia.

Ecosia has been pushing for Apple and Google to include more information about rival services in the choice screens.

“If people don’t know what the alternatives are, it’s rather unlikely that many of them will select an alternative,” Kroll said. “I’m a big fan of the DMA. I am not sure yet if it will have the results that we’re hoping for.”

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EUROPE'S largest digital ceiling is set to be unveiled in the UK - and it's the equivalent of four tennis courts in size.

The screen, at Manchester's iconic Printworks building, runs the length and breadth of the internal streets within the 150-year-old complex - 1000 square metres in total.

Part of a £21million transformation, the five-year project opens to the public today, and visitors will be able to see it for free - with its makers claiming it "must be seen to be believed."

More than 250 hours of footage has been filmed for the screen, resulting in 100 different pieces of content - including the first ever underwater performance of legendary opera , Carmen.

Filming for all the content took 12 months, and features nine actors, eight dancers, six dogs , four rabbits, three snakes, three swimmers, two tarantulas, one baby - and one Coronation Street star.

Ben Haller, spokesperson for DTZ Investors, which led the refurbishment of Printworks said: "Visitors will have seen nothing like this before.

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“And we all hope it will become an attraction in its own right, on the list of things to do when people visit Manchester.

“This transformation is truly ground-breaking as a screen of this size has never been installed on a ceiling in Europe and it has created a spectacular, free, public show that people of all ages can enjoy.

“This will be a game changer for Manchester and offer something unique, the likes of which can only be seen at Freemont Street or The Sphere in Las Vegas.

“We are responding to consumers’ desire for immersive experiences and see Printworks as leading the way in using digital technology .”

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CGI content includes cute, but mischievous, creatures, journeys through space, jungles and playful pieces which will run day and night in specially programmed times.

The screen content will rotate against a seasonal calendar of activity meaning visitors will always be greeted by something new.

The area is also boosted by further refurbishments including a giant 210m² piece of public art by Alex Sylt, chosen by Manchester residents in a public vote and a panel of judges including Norman Cook, also known as Fatboy Slim.

A digital gaming screen has been added where passers-by can use their phones to play multi-player games against each other, while Vue Cinemas has invested £6million improving its guest experience.

Luxury recliner seating has been installed to complement the 20 newly refurbished screens at Printworks - making it the largest cinema complex outside of London.

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Digital Yacht is all about next generation navigation, communication and entertainment systems for your boat.

Our range of products.

Digital Yacht’s extensive range of AIS, internet onboard, sensors, NMEA, PC Onboard and softwares products provides solutions for every type of boat.

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Who are we?

Digital Yacht is all about next generation navigation, communication and entertainment systems for your boat. Boating should be fun, safe and easy and our products integrate into existing and new boat networks to bring a powerful dimension to your on-board electronics.

We firmly believe that low cost consumer devices such as iPhones and tablets, PCs and MACs have a place on board and can help make legacy systems compete with the latest in dedicated marine electronic products at a fraction of the cost. We make internet access whilst afloat easy and affordable as well as bringing all your navigation data to your favourite consumer devices – not just for you but for crew and guests too.

Our navigation systems cover advanced GPS and compass technology as well as the most comprehensive range of AIS products in the marketplace. Plus our PC and software solutions bring simple yet powerful solutions to a variety of on board requirements from communication to navigation, entertainment to monitoring.

Our design team has 100’s years combined experience in marine electronic systems and we take pride in our quality heritage. Last year our products were sold in over 100 countries worldwide.

Manufacturing

We are proud that our production and development process takes place in Europe, as we are one of the only marine electronics companies which fully manufacture in Europe. A skilled and competent team of engineers work daily to improve our current products, as well as to develop new innovative products.

We have chosen to manufacture within Europe to provide our customers with the best products through a combination of high quality resources, skilled labour and innovative manufacturing technologies. Bristol is our production location and work with a loyal group of local contractors to create a lean manufacturing process. We use the United Kingdom as our centre of excellence to achieve our goal of creating much more durable and long-lasting products with the latest technical standards and highest reliability.

Our US sales and development office is located in Boston and our European facility is based in Rouen, France.

Our products are proudly designed in the UK, US and in France.

Dealers and distributors:

If you want to distribute our products, please contact us: [email protected]

All our products come with a comprehensive TWO year return to base warranty.

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• Navigation sensors
• Internet on board
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• NMEA to Wi-Fi Servers
• 4G Internet Access
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• Entertainment
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• Internet Access
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• How to configure our AIS
• How to configure apps & software
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