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Canada, France, Germany and Spain too have been trying to get Google and Facebook to pay for news with no success, but Australia’s law could move things along. (Photo | AP)

Australia's draft law makes it mandatory for Google and Facebook to pay for news content

The aggregators will be given three months to work out a deal on fair pay for news, failing which arbitrators will make a binding decision.

31 Jul 2020 2:24 PM

Staggering economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic was reflected in reports released Thursday from Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google's corporate parent, Alphabet. (AFP Photo)

Big Tech including Apple, Facebook reports mixed earnings amid pandemic

Apple delivered surprisingly strong numbers with both its revenue and profit rising, defying analysts' lowered expectations

31 Jul 2020 9:37 AM

Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote an email to staff about the extended work from home decision. The prolonged lockdown of Google’s offices could influence other major employers to take similar precautions, given that the technology industry has been at the forefront of the shift to remote work that has been triggered by the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Photo | Flickr - Maurizio Pesce)

Work from home till July 2021, Google tells most of its 200,000 employees

It marks a six-month extension of Google’s previous plan to keep most of its offices closed through the rest of this year.

28 Jul 2020 3:27 PM

The allegations arise from Google’s move in 2016 to start combining users’ personal information in their Google accounts with information from the same users’ activity on non-Google sites that used Google technology, formerly DoubleClick technology, to display ads.

Google accused of privacy breaches, Australian watchdog begins investigation

This is the latest litigation Google has faced around the world over allegations of privacy breaches.

27 Jul 2020 3:40 PM

Pressure has been growing both from the right and the left—and sometimes internally—to do something about the overwhelming dominance of the internet platforms. In this photo, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg. (Photo | AP)

Big Tech CEOs' postponed anti-trust hearing will now be held on Wednesday

The heads of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple will be testifying at a time of growing complaints about their dominance.

26 Jul 2020 4:17 PM

The hearing in the US Congress at Capitol building was called amid rising concerns over Big Tech dominance, which has become even more pronounced during the coronavirus pandemic, and coincides with investigations at the federal and state level of the online giants. (Photo | Flickr - aoc.gov)

Antitrust hearing with Big Tech CEOs at US Congress postponed

The hearing would have conflicted with the memorial service for the late representative and civil rights leader John Lewis.

25 Jul 2020 4:41 PM

The Federal Trade Commission is considering taking sworn testimony from Zuckerberg and Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, the Wall Street Journal reported. Major tech companies Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, referred to by the acronym GAFA, have been under the scrutiny of the US House Judiciary Committee and the Department of Justice for alleged anti-trust practices. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - C Flanigan)

Antitrust regulator to question Zuckerberg on Facebook for unfair practices, says report

The Federal Trade Commission has been conducting a yearlong probe into whether the social network has abused its dominance in the market.

18 Jul 2020 4:45 PM

App-based businesses with a focus on localised content supported by regional language interfaces are the future. These digital startups hold the key to the growth of India’s digital economy and they require government assistance to become national champions.

Government must galvanise India's app ecosystem to pare down Chinese influence

Quick disbursal of the Rs 20,000 crore Startup India corpus to app-based businesses is key, not reliance on large firms to create superapps.

16 Jul 2020 8:05 AM

Reliance no doubt seeks to capture a bigger user base for digital services and ecommerce by offering an inexpensive smartphone. (Representative Image)

Google to develop entry-level smartphone for Reliance

The two firms will also develop an Android-based smartphone operating system.

15 Jul 2020 5:02 PM

Jio Platforms — which is set to offer a wide range of services from music streaming to online retail and payments — is expected to use its 388 million mobile phone subscribers as the cornerstone of an e-commerce and digital services business to rival Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart. Jio has become Reliance’s growth engine, combining with the company’s fast-growing retail arm to help in offsetting the decline in oil and petrochemicals. (Photo | AFP)

Google invests Rs 33,373 crore in Jio for 7.7 pc stake

With this deal, Reliance has sold 32.84 per cent stake in Jio Platforms Ltd and has raised a total of Rs 1,52,055.45 crore.

15 Jul 2020 4:21 PM

This year alone, major players including Facebook, Intel, Qualcomm and others have ploughed some $15 billion into Jio Platforms. (Photo | Instagram - Reliance Jio)

Google looks to pick up USD 4 billion stake in Jio, says report

The Bloomberg report came a day after Google’s chief executive Sunder Pichai said it would invest USD 10 billion in India.

14 Jul 2020 8:09 PM

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech companies say the US Immigration rule requiring international college students whose classes have gone online to leave the country will disrupt their recruiting plans.

Google, Microsoft, Facebook join lawsuit against US visa rule forcing international students out

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement rule bars international students from staying in the country if their classes have gone fully online.

14 Jul 2020 4:38 PM

Google in talks to invest $4 billion in Reliance's digital arm

Investors, including Facebook and KKR & Co, have already poured in a combined $15.64 billion for just over 25% in Jio Platforms

14 Jul 2020 3:23 PM

Sundar Pichai announces Google's Rs 75,000 crore fund for India's digital economy

Investments will focus on four key areas of India's digitisation, he said

13 Jul 2020 3:26 PM

The punitive duties of 25% on $1.3 billion in French cosmetics, handbags will be delayed till January 6, 2021 as discussions continue.

US hits back at France with tariffs on cosmetics, handbags for taxing Big Tech

The office of US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said France’s digital services tax unfairly targets US digital technology companies.

11 Jul 2020 7:21 PM

Facebook attributed the apps crashing to a bug in its software development kit developers use to integrate their apps with Facebook. The integration allows people to use their Facebook credentials to log in to apps for dating, music or anything else. Google, Apple and other companies also offer SDKs to developers. (Photo | Pixabay - DanaTentis)

Facebook software that allows you to login to Spotify, Tinder, Pinterest blamed for apps crashing

The crashes Friday happened even if users were not logged in to the apps using Facebook.

11 Jul 2020 6:17 PM

Won’t allow private data of Americans to get into the hands of the Chinese, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says, about blacklisting Huawei and ZTE and evaluating whether Chinese companies such as TikTok can operate in the US.

Future of communications infra should be founded on Western Ideals of private property, Pompeo says

Decrying Chinese spying, the US Secretary of State praised Google, Facebook and Twitter for not sharing user data with Hong Kong government

09 Jul 2020 4:50 PM

A Chinese flag flutters outside the Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region after its official inauguration in Hong Kong on July 8, 2020. - China opened a new office for its security agents to operate openly in Hong Kong for the first time under a tough new law. The law stipulates that trials can be held behind closed doors without juries, with offenders subject to a maximum of a life sentence. (Photo | AFP)

Won't entertain Hong Kong user data requests, say Microsoft, Zoom joining Twitter, Facebook, Google

Police have stepped up requests on user data to pick up dissidents in the wake of the national security law being enforced.

08 Jul 2020 4:10 PM

Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of the maker of smartwatches and fitness trackers was unveiled in November and rang alarm bells among global regulators over antitrust and privacy worries.

Google's purchase of Fitbit will stifle the competition, say consumer groups

“Regulators around the world... must therefore give it their utmost attention,” they said, calling it a “test case” on facing down Big Tech.

02 Jul 2020 9:28 PM

A technology analyst said Zoox “has one of the better autonomous driving offerings but is currently suffering from its inability to forecast market readiness and demand for its product.” (Photo | Zoox)

Amazon enters ride-hailing space with purchase of self-driving taxi startup Zoox

Amazon and Zoox will compete with robotaxi offerings from Waymo, Cruise, Uber and Mobileye.

26 Jun 2020 8:40 PM

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