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French President Emmanuel Macron vowed a strong response if any country takes measures that undermine Europe’s digital sovereignty. Earlier this week, President Donald Trump threatened to impose fresh tariffs and export restrictions on countries that have digital services taxes or regulations that harm American tech companies. France was among the first nations to implement a digital services tax.”We will not let anyone else decide for us on this matter,” he told reporters in Toulon, France, on Friday. “We cannot allow our digital sector or the regulations we have chosen for ourselves, which are a necessity, to be threatened today.”Trump has long…

President Donald Trump threatened to inflict “substantial” tariffs on countries that impose digital taxes just days after Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about the levies during a White House meeting.The Facebook co-founder visited Trump late last week, according to people familiar with the private meeting, who asked not to be named as the details aren’t public. During the meeting, one of the people said, Trump and Zuckerberg discussed the threat of digital service taxes, which are imposed on the revenue that tech companies get from users in a particular country. Meta generates the vast majority…

The college football season has kicked off, and the NFL’s regular season begins next week, which means sportsbooks are getting ready for the biggest opportunity of the year to sign up new customers and grow the wagering pot. Americans are expected to wager a record $30 billion this NFL season through legal gambling, an 8.5% increase from last year, according to estimates by the American Gaming Association.The biggest players in the space, Flutter-owned FanDuel and DraftKings, are facing growing competition from BetMGM and Caesars. And other players are looking to get in the game, as online broker Robinhood teamed up with…

Monitoring threats from CohnReznick’s digital forensics lab David Sun is almost always in the middle of a security breach.Or, at least, that was the half-joking apology the advisory principal at CohnReznick gave for being a few minutes late to an interview — though his colleague, Bhavesh Vadhani, a partner and the global leader of the cybersecurity, technology risk and privacy practice, confirmed that it’s truer than Sun’s playful tone suggested.Sun and his team are indeed very busy, working out of the digital forensics lab facility the Top 25 Firm built outside of Washington, D.C., in mid-2023. The lab was opened…

AP automation solutions provider DataServ announced its official integration partnership with Penta, an ERP platform for construction firms. This collaboration delivers a solution that connects Penta’s construction-specific accounting capabilities with DataServ’s AP automation platform. … Accounting firm network CPAmerica, Inc. announced that Blue J, a generative AI solution for tax research, is now the Preferred Provider for the association. CPAmerica member firms partnering with Blue J will now have access to its tax research platform. Blue J joins over 70 other CPAmerica Preferred Providers. … Accounting automation solutions provider InterVal penned a strategic partnership with IG Wealth Management. The agreement…