Making technology work for business – India – Computerworld

Under pressure from UK regulators, Apple and Google have reached an agreement to change how they operate their app stores in the UK, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced on Tuesday.
The agreement means both companies will not discriminate against apps that compete with their own apps and services. They pledged to be more transparent with the app approval process and not to discriminate against third-party apps in App Store search...

European organizations will nearly double their spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) this year, as geopolitical tensions cause them to rethink their reliance on US hyperscalers.
European investments in sovereign IaaS are expected to grow from $6.9 billion in 2025 to $12.6 billion in 2026, according to a forecast by Gartner published Monday — an increase of 83%. The figure will almost double again in 2027, Gartner predicts, reaching...

Microsoft and Apple have for decades been seen as the Yin and Yang of the tech world, with Microsoft’s products portrayed as being for buttoned-corporate drones, while Apple’s were for the truth seekers and rebels — the people willing to stand up to...

More than 1,000 Google employees have signed an open letter urging the company to sever its business ties with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according to CNBC.
In the letter, the employees condemn what they describe as escalating violence linked to federal immigration operations and refer to several high-profile deaths in the US. They write that they are concerned about how the company’s technology can be used...