Some app makers who rely on mobile distribution from Apple and Google are scared of how much power the tech giants have over their businesses, according to congressional testimony delivered Wednesday. “We’re all afraid,” Match Group Chief Legal Officer Jared Sine told Sen. Amy
India’s new rules for social media is a sign that New Delhi is hardening its stance toward Big Tech, experts told CNBC. Internet giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google — collectively known as Big Tech — have accrued billions of users on their digital platforms globally.
Australia’s federal court found that Google misled users about personal location data collected through Android mobile devices between 2017 and 2018, the country’s competition regulator said Friday. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) — which launched legal proceedings against Google in 2019 —
The U.K.’s competition watchdog doesn’t just have GIFs on its mind. The Competition and Markets Authority’s probe into Facebook’s acquisition of Giphy is the regulator’s latest move as it takes on a more high-profile role in regulating Big Tech. In April, the authority
A new regulator aiming to curb the dominance of tech giants has started work in the UK. The Digital Markets Unit (DMU) will first look to create new codes of conduct for companies such as Facebook and Google and their
Google parent Alphabet plans in the coming weeks to stop using Oraclefinancial software and instead start using software from SAP, CNBC has learned. Alphabet and Google core financial systems will move to SAP in May, Google told employees in an email that CNBC viewed.
Google, one of the first major U.S. companies to send employees home last year because of the coronavirus, is setting new remote work guidelines as it speeds up plans to get staffers back to the office. As millions more Americans
Facebook and Google are planning to lay two huge subsea cables that will link the U.S. West Coast to Singapore and Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s biggest economy and home to a growing number of smartphone users. The Echo and Bifrost trans-Pacific cables will increase
DUBLIN — The EU’s landmark privacy rules were hailed as a success when launched in 2018, but some believe they have placed too much weight on individual authorities and have led to sluggish activity and more bureaucracy. TikTok recently came
In what has become a regular occurrence in Congress, lawmakers faced off with the CEOs of three of the most influential tech platforms on Thursday in a five-and-a-half-hour hearing about misinformation. The key legislative focus of the discussion was Section