The UK bans hidden fees imposed by online businesses as well as the use or commissioning of fake reviews, effective April 6, with compliance enforced by the CMA (Jon Ungoed-Thomas/The Guardian)

Jon Ungoed-Thomas / The Guardian:
The UK bans hidden fees imposed by online businesses as well as the use or commissioning of fake reviews, effective April 6, with compliance enforced by the CMA  —  New law aims to eliminate added costs that can be up to 25% of retail price  —  Sneaky fees that are estimated …

Paris-based Pennylane, which makes cloud-based accounting software, raised €75M, doubling its valuation to €2B, led by Sequoia and with Alphabet among investors (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Paris-based Pennylane, which makes cloud-based accounting software, raised €75M, doubling its valuation to €2B, led by Sequoia and with Alphabet among investors  —  French accounting software firm Pennylane has doubled its valuation to 2 billion euros ($2.16 billion) in a new 75 million euro funding round.

Analysis: child begging livestreams are actively promoted by TikTok’s algorithm and TikTok profits from the content despite having policies against begging (Shanti Das/The Guardian)

Shanti Das / The Guardian:
Analysis: child begging livestreams are actively promoted by TikTok’s algorithm and TikTok profits from the content despite having policies against begging  —  Exploitation fears as people in extreme poverty perform stunts and beg for virtual gifts  —  Three young children huddle in front of a camera …

Lina Khan, Steve Bannon, and others worry the FTC could abandon its Meta antitrust case after Zuckerberg’s concessions to Trump; the trial is set for April 14 (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
Lina Khan, Steve Bannon, and others worry the FTC could abandon its Meta antitrust case after Zuckerberg’s concessions to Trump; the trial is set for April 14  —  With a historic antitrust suit looming against Meta, could the company get a reprieve from its new ally in the White House?

Sources: Apple is keeping TikTok and other ByteDance apps on its US App Store for at least another 75 days, following assurances from AG Pam Bondi (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is keeping TikTok and other ByteDance apps on its US App Store for at least another 75 days, following assurances from AG Pam Bondi  —  Apple Inc., following assurances from the Trump administration, is keeping TikTok and other apps from ByteDance Ltd. on its US App Store for at least another 75 days.

Z-Wave, popular among smart home enthusiasts, becomes an open-source protocol with a new long-range technology as it seeks Matter support to avoid obsolescence (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Z-Wave, popular among smart home enthusiasts, becomes an open-source protocol with a new long-range technology as it seeks Matter support to avoid obsolescence  —  Now an open-source protocol and with a new long-range technology, the path forward for Z-Wave looks clearer, with a little help from Matter.