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Viewsroom: Europe fights U.S. Big Tech

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Reuters

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4.458 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Digital titans like Alphabet and Apple may rule the roost, but EU rules on data privacy are helping startups flourish on the other side of the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Facebook’s inability to police fake content spreads to Africa. Plus: Mumbai’s ride-share drivers go on strike See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, just leave on work now. Sorry, it's a bit loud.

0:03.3

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0:24.4

Not. Service fee and small order fee may apply. Participating restaurants. Serving times and teas and seas apply. The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants, not of Rojers' News.

0:30.0

Europe fights big American tech.

0:32.6

Facebook has an Africa problem, and Mumbai throws a spanner in the wheels of right-hailing services.

0:38.3

These are the topics we'll be discussing in this edition of the Views Room,

0:42.3

a weekly conversation among Breaking Views columnists about the ups and downs of the world of finance.

0:47.3

I'm Jennifer Sabah, and with me, as always, is Anthony Curry.

0:50.3

Hi, Jen.

0:51.3

Later in the program, we're going to pass the mic to our colleagues in Asia.

0:54.9

But first, one of the largest gathering of tech companies just concluded in Lisbon,

0:59.7

the location highlighted the lopsided showing from U.S.-based companies versus homegrown

1:04.1

startups from the European continent.

1:06.5

But Europe is shaping up to be an interesting battleground among Silicon Valley rivals and beyond.

1:11.6

On the line from London is our Breaking Views columnist Liam Proud.

1:14.6

Hi, Liam.

1:15.6

Hi, Jim.

1:16.6

All right, so you attended this Web Summit in Portugal last week, and it's huge.

1:23.6

It's a massive gathering of all sorts of tech companies, right? And most of them seem to be

1:29.3

from the US. So why don't you just kind of tell us why is this a significant event? I mean,

1:34.6

it's significant because it's huge and because the big people go there. I mean, it's quite young as well.

1:39.4

I think this is maybe the third year. It's been in Lisbon. It was previously in Dublin. And it's basically one of the only

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