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Apple, Google, other US business groups applaud Biden's immigration reforms

Called the US Citizenship Act of 2021, the legislation modernises the immigration system, and also proposes to eliminate the per country ca...

View: The scary power of internet giants like Facebook, Twitter that finally shut Trump up

In banning Trump, the big social media companies simply started treating him like everyone else. Lots of people, including prominent Trump ...

In silencing President Donald Trump, two tech giants show where power now lies

Twitter’s decision to permanently suspend Trump’s account on Friday, after a decision a day earlier by Facebook to ban the president at lea...

Twitter bans Donald Trump, citing risk of violent incitement

Twitter's move deprives Trump of a potent tool he has used to communicate directly with the American people for more than a decade.

NYSE to delist Chinese telco giants on US executive order

The three companies have separate listings in Hong Kong. All generate the entirety of their revenue in China and have no meaningful presenc...

Amazon, Facebook, Google and the question of trust

Well, it looks like the tech giant is running into rough weather with anti-trust regulators all across the world. Last month, the European ...

Google rejects US Justice Department antitrust claims in court filing

In October the Justice Department sued Google for abusing its dominance in online search and advertising _ the government's most significan...

US antitrust case targets Google’s search practices

The latest US monopoly case against the company came from 38 state attorneys general, led by Colorado, piling on to a separate state case, ...

Google looks to pilot Internet at high speeds using light beams

Tech giant in talks with Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel to provide internet and telecom connectivity to remote areas and resolve hurdles su...

Australia to make Facebook, Google pay news outlets for content

Under laws to be introduced to parliament on Wednesday, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the Big Tech firms will have to negotiate how much t...

View: The change of guard in the US is an opportunity to enforce true accountability over the internet industry​​​​​

Public opinion has shifted dramatically over the past three years to the extent that in 2020, people believe that big tech exerts far too m...

UK to set up watchdog to impose tougher rules on Google, Facebook

The Digital Markets Unit will be launched in April and could have powers to ‘suspend, block and reverse decisions of tech giants’, order th...

How countries are trying to make Google, Facebook pay for news content

Google and Facebook ferry more than 80% of external traffic to various news sites, according to Parse.ly, a web analytics and content optim...

Global tech giants threaten to leave Pakistan over new rules

Warning from the Asia Internet Coalition, which represents global technology giants including Google, Facebook and Twitter, comes after the...

How India went from being a giant of global outsourcing to a dwarf of the Internet economy

The bigtech revolution that has swept through China and the US has eluded India. We have not built Internet giants the size of Tencents, Al...

What's in the US law protecting internet companies - and can it be changed?

The technology industry and others have long held that Section 230 is a crucial protection, though the statute has become increasingly cont...

Google files for Competition Commission of India approval for stake buy in Jio Platform

"The notification is being filed in relation to GIL's proposed acquisition of a minority non -controlling shareholding of around 7.73 of eq...