Entries tagged as ‘european commission’
The European Commission has organised a meeting in Brussels to celebrate the five year anniversary since the UNESCO Convention was first adopted to help promote and protect the diversity of different cultural expressions. The aim of the conference will be to celebrate the amount of progress that the Convention has made since its establishment and to help prove the relevance of UNESO when it comes to globalization. In attendance at the anniversary conference will be about 200 different participants that are a part of the UNESCO including ministers of culture and ministers for development from many countries.
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Categories: European Culture
Tagged: aim, anniversary conference, attendance, brussels, culture, diversity, EU, europe, european commission, expressions, globalization, inception, measures, next five years, participants, relevance, unesco, unesco convention, visual identity, year anniversary
EU Google probe
Microsoft announced this week that they will be filing a complaint with European Union competition regulators against the search engine giant Google due to the fact that the company has been isolating data and content that other competitors need to access. The new complaint will add to a list of others that are filed against Google from other competitors who fear the search result giant and the way it dominates the industry.
General Counsel for Microsoft Brad Smith wrote on a blog post for the company that Google continues to participate in a pattern that blocks off data and content that competitors need to access in order to offer the proper search results to their consumers and as a way to reach more advertisers.
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Categories: Technology
Tagged: advertisers, brad smith, competition regulators, consumers, european commission, european union, filing a complaint, general counsel, giant, google, microsoft, microsoft complaint, proper search, search engine, search result, subsidiary, web companies
