BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese e-commerce platforms are offering discounts of up to 2,530 yuan ($351) on Apple's ( AAPL ) latest iPhone 16 models, an effort to spur sales as first-quarter shipments by the U.S. tech giant fell further in its second-largest market. The step comes as Chinese online retailers increasingly vie for cost-conscious consumers in a slowing economy, with price...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Austrian advocacy group NOYB said on Wednesday it would seek an injunction against Meta Platforms ( META ) that could lead to billion-euro damages claims if the tech giant goes ahead with plans to use Europeans' personal data to train its artificial intelligence models. NOYB (none of your business), led by privacy activist Max Schrems, said it had...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

BEIJING, May 14 (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce platforms are offering discounts of up to 2,530 yuan ($351) on Apple's ( AAPL ) latest iPhone 16 models, an effort to spur sales as first-quarter shipments by the U.S. tech giant fell further in its second-largest market. The step comes as Chinese online retailers increasingly vie for cost-conscious consumers in a slowing...