The World Economic Forum in Davos is now dominated by tech giants, whose interests shunt aside topics like climate change, as Trump and AI take center stage
The World Economic Forum in Davos is now dominated by tech giants, whose interests shunt aside topics like climate change, as Trump and AI take center stage
OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection make voluntary AI promises to the White House, like cybersecurity investment and watermarking
White House Pranav Dixit / Business Today : OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon and others pledge to watermark AI content for safety Ryan Morrison / Tech Monitor : White House secures AI safety commitment As...
FTC says Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft made 819 unreported acquisition deals of $1M+, including for patents and acquihires, from 2010 to 2019
- Report shows hundreds of deals by tech giants went unchecked — Antitrust enforcers must close loopholes, FTC Chair Khan says Source: Federal Trade Commission .
UK proposes new pro-competition rules for digital economy, including allowing its Digital Markets Unit to suspend, block, and reverse decisions by tech giants
Digital firms with deep-rooted market power to be subject to mandatory code to drive up competition
Inside the World Wide Web Consortium as members debate the future of online privacy, with browsers' engineers often at odds with companies that rely on tracking
James Rosewell could see his company's future was in jeopardy. — It was January 2020, and Google had just announced key details … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @hkanji , @jason_kint , @tiffanycli , @davi...
Facebook's refusal to pay a misguided media tax, pushed by Rupert Murdoch, is a defense of the open web and criticizing it for rejecting a link tax is bizarre
I have no problem with “big tech” or “Silicon Valley” or anything else, just Facebook which is really bad. James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki : No way to win. Facebook chooses not to pay. Google, doi...
Salesforce's acquisition of Slack is emblematic of a long-standing trend of defensive acquisitions by Big Tech and speaks to the impact of weak antitrust laws
Liz O'Sullivan / Fast Company : Tweets: @paulorf , @fastcompany , and @ophirgottlieb Tweets: Paulo Rodriguez / @paulorf : Amazing article that explains why tech companies in the collaboration space s...
Salesforce's acquisition of Slack is emblematic of a long-standing trend of defensive acquisitions by Big Tech and speaks to the impact of weak antitrust laws
Slack wanted to stay independent. But in a landscape dominated by tech giants, that proved impossible.
Apple says it “vehemently disagrees” with the conclusions reached in US House report and doesn't have dominant marketshare in any categories of its businesses
now it's time to rewrite the laws Steve Vegvari / iPhone in Canada Blog : Former App Store Director Says Apple Uses Guidelines “As a Weapon Against Competitors” Akshat Arora / Micky : House Democrats ...