Meta lays out plans for May 20 layoffs, restructuring; closes 6,000 open rolesMeta Platforms is cutting jobs and reorganizing teams to boost its artificial intelligence capabilities. Thousands of employees will be mov...
19 May, 2026, 02.15 PM IST
ET Prime Special Series: Multibagger or Bankrupt - Part 56: An acquisition, a divestment, and a JV for EV. Ready for re-rating?Bulls argue this company is becoming a complete mobility-platform supplier in India: Power solutions and aftermarket, braking and safety. B...
29 Apr, 2026, 09.24 PM IST
What is driving Oracle stock (ORCL) higher today despite layoffs? Oracle stock making big moves today as AI strategy and cloud growth boost ORCL sharesOracle stock (ORCL) rising today: Oracle stock (ORCL) jumped over 2.4% today, even as layoffs hit key teams. Investors are not reacting to ...
31 Mar, 2026, 08.51 PM IST
Bengaluru civic body faces flak over data breach of Covid patientsFree Software Movement of India, a coalition of organisations working on data privacy, on Tuesday flagged that Covid-19 data record was bei...
26 May, 2021, 08.53 AM IST
Election Commission urged to put check on digital platformsThe group said the threat posed by digital platforms to the integrity of the upcoming elections has assumed “alarming proportions”.
06 Apr, 2019, 06.58 AM IST
Internet Freedom Foundation, Constitutional Conduct, ex CECs among others appeal to EC to reign in digital platformsThe group said it previously met the EC on the matter and was assured careful consideration of its recommendations.
05 Apr, 2019, 07.48 PM IST
MOSS is Mozilla’s helping hand to the open-source ecosystem in IndiaSoon after coming to power, the NDA government released a policy that called for open source software to be used as part of the Digital Ind...
17 Jul, 2018, 11.23 AM IST
Civil society organisations oppose Indore's social media ban over demonetisationDemanding that the order be withdrawn, FSMI said state and central governments have been using Section 144 arbitrarily in shutting down the...
22 Nov, 2016, 10.34 PM IST
Techies and students in Hyderabad campaign for net neutralityAhead of the December 30 deadline set by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India for comments on "Consultation paper on differential pricing ...
29 Dec, 2015, 08.55 PM IST
FSMI Hyderabad launches campaign against Free BasicsThe Hyderabad chapter of the Free Software Movement of India (FSMI) is going to organise a four-day long campaign against Facebook's contro...
27 Dec, 2015, 06.34 AM IST
Nasscom wants India to protect its own interests in services and technology on ITAThe agreement is to update the WTO's ITA that adds more than 200 products to the list of goods covered by zero tariff and duty free trade.
24 Jul, 2015, 10.04 PM IST
- Anti-internet censorship protests gather steam
The new rules, adopted last year, regulates reader's comments on online articles, user-posted videos, blogs, photos and posts on online soc...
23 Apr, 2012, 04.01 AM IST
- Facebook is a surveillance engine, not friend: Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation
Facebook mistreats users. It collects data from people and admits it. It also collects data which isn't admitted, says Stallman, Free Softw...
07 Feb, 2012, 10.35 AM IST
- Sun-Oracle deal: A loss for free software movement?
In an interview to TOI over the phone from San Francisco last month, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz said that in a survey the compa...
21 Apr, 2009, 10.45 AM IST
Free software is like free media, says Sun CEOET talks to Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and president of Sun Microsystems, a key proponent of global open source and standard setting initiative...
20 Sep, 2008, 12.38 AM IST
Digital Colonisation curtailing right to creativityET caught up with the legendary Richard Matthew Stallman (called RMS by hackers) on his visit to India to understand his idea of a free wor...
16 Jan, 2008, 01.17 AM IST
- Freedom is future
Too many people think of the world as some kind of battle between profit and non-profit, when what is, perhaps, the more important distinct...
27 Aug, 2006, 03.48 AM IST