Japanese panel wants to establish team to fight fake news, with help from U.S. tech giants
A government panel has drafted a proposal to create a public-private team to fight fake online news that U.S. tech giants would be asked to join. The proposal calls for the establishment of a team including the government and social media service operators at home ...
Global tax authorities discuss targeting multinationals with profit margins above 10%
Under their new rules, global taxation authorities have been discussing a proposal of targeting digital giants and other multinationals whose profit margins top 10 percent, Japanese government sources said Saturday. The debate on creating global tax rules based more on where firms make their sales ...
Technology giants such as Google LLC, Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. came under pressure Wednesday as Japan's antitrust watchdog noted opaque practices that could disadvantage vendors on their e-commerce sites or smartphone app stores. Some 50 to 90 percent of such vendors said their contracts ...
