European Commission to investigate Microsoft over GDPR compliance

The European Union’s data protection supervisor will investigate whether Microsoft Corp is in compliance with the EU’s new GDPR rules. In a significant development, the European Union’s data protection supervisor disclosed, it has launched an investigation into whether services and products provided by U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp to EU institutions are in compliance with…

The EU surges ahead in its bid to find a common tax base across its member states

With the world’s richest nations dragging their feet on ways to find a common solutions on how to tax digital companies, including Facebook and Google, the European Commission has surged ahead in a bid to block some of the world’s wealthiest companies to exploit existing tax regulations to their favor. On Tuesday, U.S. companies operating…