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Tech earnings tsunami buoys Alphabet and sinks Apple
Alphabet rallied, Apple dropped and Twitter tumbled following a mixed bag of quarterly reports from top-tier tech businesses that investors have relied on this season to power a st...
EU’s Vestager: Tougher new rules for tech giants, more power to enforcers
Tech giants will need to do much more to weed out harmful and illegal content while online gatekeepers will be bound by a list of dos and don’ts under new rules aimed at rein...
Google steps up campaign against EU push for tough new tech rules
Google has launched a 60-day strategy to counter the European Union’s push for tough new tech rules by acquiring US allies to push back against the EU’s digital chief a...
Where do Trump and Biden stand on tech policy issues?
The CEO’s of Facebook and Google were grilled about the regulation of Big Tech by US senators, a hot-button issue before the presidential election on November the 3rd.
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 ...
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 ...
South Korean antitrust chief says Google has undermined competition
South Korea’s antitrust chief has said the agency considers US search engine Google has undermined competition, including that the bureau intends to present an instance to it...
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...
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...
Japan to join forces with US and Europe in regulating ‘Big Tech’
Japan will combine forces with the United States and Europe to carry on almost any marketplace abuses by the four Big Tech platforms, the new mind of its antitrust watchdog has sai...
Apple enters the 5G race with its new iPhone 12 range
Apple has launched its own next-generation iPhone 12, using quicker 5G connectivity the Cupertino, California-based company hopes will spur a wave of updates and also keep its earn...
Congressional report suggests big trouble for Big Tech if Biden wins White House
A scathing report detailing abuses of market power by four leading platform businesses suggests a tough road ahead of new rules and more rigorous enforcement for ‘Big Tech...