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Tech CEO’s to defend key law in front of US Senate panel
The CEO’s of Twitter, Facebook and Alphabet will inform US lawmakers in a hearing on Wednesday that a federal law protecting internet companies is essential to free expressio...
Microsoft beats sales estimates as Azure growth ticks upward
Microsoft beat Wall Street estimates for annual revenue and profit yesterday, driven by a slight uptick in expansion in its flagship cloud computing firm since the software maker c...
Big Tech earnings approach under antitrust cloud
Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook, together accounting for about a fifth of their S&P 500’s total value, report their quarterly results on Thursday, with their stocks ...
FCC votes to maintain 2017 repeal of net neutrality rules
The US Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 on Tuesday to maintain its 2017 repeal of Obama-era net neutrality rules, even after a federal court led a review of some provisi...
Twitter flags Trump tweet on mail-in ballots over ‘disputed’ content
Twitter yesterday again flagged a tweet by US President Donald J Trump about mail-in ballots, including a disclaimer describing the article’s content as “disputed”...
Microsoft quietly prepares to avoid spotlight under Biden
Microsoft, which has largely evaded Washington’s evaluation of Big Tech businesses and scored a lucrative $10 billion government contract under the Trump administration, has ...
ByteDance in early talks to list Chinese short video app Douyin
TikTok-owner ByteDance is in talks and with investment banks to record its Chinese brief video app Douyin at Hong Kong, based on two people familiar with this situation.
Webex participants near 600 million as COVID-19 pandemic flares again
Cisco’s video-conferencing app Webex spanned 590 million participants at September and is on course to record 600 million this month, almost double the amounts listed in Marc...
Google’s antitrust legal woes far from over if Biden wins
The US Justice Department’s nascent antitrust case against Google will probably find the attention it should succeed if Democrat Joe Biden wins the US presidency following mo...
Quibi to wind down operations just six months after launch
Short video streaming service Quibi has said it plans to wind down its operations and begin a process to sell its assets, just six months after its launch.
How social media companies will handle post-US election scenarios
In the run-up to the US election in November, social networking companies such as Facebook and Twitter have announced a slew of new rules for assorted post-election scenarios.
US case against Google seen benefiting from Obama-nominated judge
The range of US District Judge Amit Mehta, chosen to the court by President Obama, to listen to that the US Justice Department’s case against Google, suggests a tough court b...
Google antitrust case to turn on how search engine grew dominant
The US government’s antitrust case against Google appears strong, but could face an uphill battle from a business-friendly judiciary that may question whether a free search e...
Pakistan to unblock TikTok after it vows to moderate content
Pakistan has made a decision to lift a ban on viral social networking app TikTok after the company vowed to block all accounts involved in spreading “obscenity and immorality...