Big Tech

A bitter battle is taking place between Big Tech and the free press over how to share in the income that news content generates for technology giants. The future of our news ecosystem, a linchpin of democracy, depends on the outcome.Last…

A rally in big tech fizzled out as bond yields rose, with traders wading through remarks from a slew of Federal Reserve officials and awaiting Jerome Powell’s speech on Friday for clues on the outlook for interest rates.…

Curated By: Shaurya SharmaLast Updated: July 27, 2023, 11:55 ISTMountain View, California, USAGoogle laid off around 12,000 employees in January this year. (Image: Reuters)Google lays off Director of News Ecosystem Development , Madhav…

The X.com domain name, for a considerable time Sunday, was just displaying a holding page for domain name registrar GoDaddy because it hadn’t been configured correctly. Musk claims to be acting on an original vision for “X” that he has had…

U.S. antitrust regulators published guidelines on Wednesday on the kinds of mergers and acquisitions they object to, reaffirming the skepticism with which President Joe Biden's administration has approached many deals, especially in the…

A French-led backlash led to a US economist withdrawing from a top European Union antitrust job on Wednesday, a move some economists said risks undermining competition policy-making.EU antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager, triggered the…

New draft guidelines released by U.S. antitrust enforcers on Wednesday lay the groundwork for tougher scrutiny of future deals by Big Tech companies like Amazon.com and Alphabet's Google.The Biden administration has taken a tougher stance…

We are living through an information revolution. The traditional gatekeepers of knowledge - librarians, journalists and government officials - have largely been replaced by technological gatekeepers - search engines, artificial intelligence…

Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has highlighted the “scary” part of Artificial Intelligence (AI), noting that a multi-pronged approach is needed to ensure cybersecurity in society.Addressing the…

BRUSSELS: The European Commission stuck to its guns on Friday (Jul 14), saying it was not reconsidering EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager's pick of a US economist to a senior job helping to oversee Big Tech despite criticism from French…