App store antics: Legal screws tighten for Google, Apple
David Barnard owes his entire livelihood to Apple.
Aug 31, 2021
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China passes tough new online privacy law
China passed a sweeping privacy law aimed at preventing businesses from collecting sensitive personal data Friday, as the country faces an uptick in internet scams and Beijing targets tech giants hoovering up personal data.
Aug 20, 2021
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Tech titans join US cyber team to fight ransomware
US cybersecurity officials on Thursday said Amazon, Google and Microsoft have enlisted to help them fight ransomware and defend cloud computing systems from hackers.
Aug 5, 2021
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Alibaba earnings down as China tech giants face turmoil
Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba Group said Tuesday that it posted lower profit but maintained steady revenue growth, indicating that a government crackdown on the country's tech giants was having little impact on its core ...
Aug 3, 2021
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China presses tech giants to conduct 'deep self-examination'
China on Friday told the country's tech giants to conduct "deep self-examination" over issues including data security and user rights, as Beijing turns up the heat in its broadening regulatory clampdown.
Jul 30, 2021
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Trump announces anti-censorship lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter
Former US president Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled a lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google, escalating his years-long free speech battle with tech giants who he argues have wrongfully censored him.
Jul 7, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A new invention aims to make computer servers worldwide more climate friendly
An elegant new algorithm developed by Danish researchers can significantly reduce the resource consumption of the world's computer servers. Computer servers are as taxing on the climate as global air traffic combined, thereby ...
Jul 6, 2021
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Break them up? 5 ways Congress is trying to rein in Big Tech
Groundbreaking legislation is advancing in Congress that would curb the market power of tech giants Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple and could force them to untie their dominant platforms from their other lines of business. ...
Jun 25, 2021
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US lawmakers back Big Tech regulation bills in marathon session
US lawmakers debated into the early hours Thursday over details of legislation aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech firms with a sweeping reform of antitrust laws.
Jun 23, 2021
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Huge changes for internet and Big Tech under US antitrust proposal
The antitrust overhaul package unveiled in Congress targeting Big Tech, if enacted, could have far-reaching effects on how people use the internet and on America's biggest and most successful companies.
Jun 20, 2021
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