Economic cost of new EU tech rules could top $100.5 billion, study says

The European Union's plan to rein in U.S. tech giants with new rules could cost the 27-country bloc as much as 85 billion euros (77.08 billion pounds)in economic growth, Brussels-based think tank ECIPE warned.Under the proposed rules, Facebook , Alphabetunit Google, Amazonand Apple could be forced to share data and banned from favouring their own services.In a study sponsored by Google, due to be published this week and seen by Reuters, the European Centre for International Political Economy (EC