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US House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown
The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee formally approved a report accusing Big Tech companies of buying or crushing smaller firms, Representative David Cicilline’...
US Senator speaks to Biden White House about key internet law
US Senator Mark Warner has said he has been talking to President Biden’s staff about Section 230 – a law protecting platform businesses – and expects his recent l...
White House cites ‘active threat,’ urges action despite Microsoft patch
The Biden White House has urged computer network operators to take further steps to gauge whether their systems were targeted amid a hack of Microsoft’s Outlook email program...
White House says closely tracking Microsoft’s emergency patch
The White House is closely tracking an emergency patch Microsoft has released, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan has said, after an unknown hacking group recently broke in...
White House working with Facebook and Twitter to tackle anti-vaxxers
The White House has been reaching out to social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter and Google about clamping down on COVID misinformation and getting their help to stop it...
Amazon offers to help US with vaccine efforts in letter to President Biden
Amazon.com Inc has offered to help with the United States’ efforts involving the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a letter addressed to President Biden, seen by journalists.
US not extending TikTok divestiture deadline, but talks will continue
The Trump administration on Friday chose to not grant ByteDance a brand new extension of an order requiring the Chinese firm to divest TikTok’s American assets, but talks wil...
ByteDance challenges Trump’s TikTok divestiture order
ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of video-sharing app TikTok, filed a request late on Tuesday with a US Appeals Court challenging a Trump government order set to take effect o...
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 ...
US explores restrictions on Ant Group, Tencent payment platforms
The United States is considering limitations on China’s Ant Group as well as Tencent over concerns their digital payment platforms undermine national security, Bloomberg News...
White House adviser Navarro suggests Microsoft divest its China holdings
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro suggested on Monday that Microsoft Corp could divest its holdings in China if it were to buy the Chinese possessed short-video program TikTo...
Trump administration says Huawei and Hikvision are backed by Chinese military
The Trump administration has determined that top Chinese firms, including telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies and video surveillance company Hikvision, are owned or contro...
Senate Democrats call for Trump White House to unveil details of TSMC deal
Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday urged the Trump administration to answer “serious questions” about Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s plans to build a US-bas...
White House panel: Build new tech infrastructure for future jobs
A White House advisory panel will call for the government and private industry to work together to build new technological infrastructure to support future jobs and provide the und...
Zoom adds ex-Trump adviser, tech lobbyist to PR push
Zoom has named former White House National Security Adviser HR McMaster to its board and hired the policy chief of one of the tech world’s big lobby groups to drive governmen...