EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager will meet Apple CEO Tim Cook, as well as the executive with Alphabet, Broadcom, Nvidia, and others…
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Google pays Apple 36% of its Safari search advertising revenue
Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from search advertising made through the Safari browser, the main economics expert…
Alphabet CEO defends paying Apple to make Google Safari’s default search engine
Testifying in the biggest U.S. antitrust case in a quarter century, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai defended his company’s practice…
Google’s Pichai worried over ‘bad optics,’ poor ‘user experience’ with search engine deal with Apple
Google’s Sundar Pichai raised concerns years before he became the company’s chief executive officer that its deal with Apple had “bad optics”…
U.S. House Judiciary subpoenas Apple CEO Tim Cook, other Big Tech CEOs over free speech
U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Wednesday subpoenaed Apple CEO Tim Cook and other tech CEOS over free-speech issues…
U.S. Senator urges Apple to ban TikTok from its App Store
A member of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee is calling on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores over concerns…
15 U.S. state attorneys general demand that Apple, Google raise TikTok to ’17+’ age rating
A group of 15 Republican U.S. state attorneys general demanded on Tuesday that executives at Apple strip TikTok of its age rating that…
Apple tells U.S. senators that tech bills will threaten privacy and security
Apple warned U.S. senators Tuesday that proposed bipartisan antitrust legislation aimed at curbing the power of big technology companies…
Apple CEO Tim Cook personally lobbying against the American Innovation and Choice Online Act
The lobbying effort by Big Tech companies, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, who is personally lobbying against the legislation, is picking up…
President Trump sues Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet CEOs over being banned from their platforms
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced class action lawsuits against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and…
Sen. Lee, Rep. Buck question Apple’s, Google’s, and Amazon’s actions against Parler
In a joint letter to the CEOs of Apple, Google, and Amazon to question the companies’ actions in removing the social network Parler from…
U.S. Senate committee grills Twitter, Google, Facebook CEOs in censorship hearing
The Twitter CEO, Facebook CEO, and Google CEO on Wednesday defended Section 230 during a hearing on censorship before the…
Senate panel compels CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to testify over political bias
A U.S. Senate panel voted Thursday to compel testimony from the CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter as lawmakers opened a new front…
Analyst: Tax hike under Biden poses bigger threat to tech than antitrust hearings
The real threat facing the tech firms comes not from lawmakers now, but from higher taxes later if Joe Biden prevails against President Trump…
U.S. House panel confirms delay of Monday’s ‘Big Tech’ CEO hearing
A U.S. congressional hearing scheduled for next week to question the CEOs of Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Apple has been officially delayed…
U.S. House antitrust hearing with Apple CEO Tim Cook ‘likely’ to be postponed
Monday’s blockbuster antitrust congressional hearing with Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Faceplant’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Alphaboogle’s Sundar…
Apple CEO Tim Cook, other big tech CEOs ready defenses for U.S. Congressional hearing
Apple CEO Tim Cook and the CEOs of Facebook, Amazon, and Alphabet (Google) are set to speak – virtually – before the House Judiciary Committee…
Apple CEO Tim Cook to testify before U.S. Congress on July 27th
Apple CEO Tim Cook, along with CEOs of Google parent Alphabet Inc., Amazon, and Facebook are set to testify July 27 before the U.S. House…
Apple CEO Tim Cook to testify at U.S. House antitrust hearing
Apple CEO Tim Cook is scheduled to testify at a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing as part of its antitrust investigation…
Will Apple CEO Tim Cook testify before U.S. congressional antitrust panel?
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai are willing to testify before a congressional panel…
U.S. presidential candidates’ positions on breaking up Big Tech
In the preamble to the U.S. 2020 presidential election, many Democratic White House contenders have argued in favor of either breaking up or tightening…
Google parent Alphabet hits trillion-dollar market cap for first time
Google’s parent co. Alphabet hit the $1 trillion market capitalization milestone, making it the fourth U.S. company to hit the milestone after Apple…
U.S. Congressman asks Apple, Google if apps like TikTok and Grindr must disclose foreign ties
On Friday, the chair of a congressional panel wrote letters to Apple and Google to ask what, if any, disclosures are mobile apps required to make regarding overseas ties…
U.S. House antitrust probe of Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook report likely by ‘first part’ of 2020
The chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel said on Friday that he expects to have a final report on its probe…
U.S. House investigators say they have begun receiving data from Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook
The probe is one of several at the federal, state and congressional level aimed at determining if the companies use their considerable clout in the online market illegally to hurt rivals or otherwise break competition law…
U.S. Congressional antitrust panel to discuss Big Tech competition
Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the chairman and top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel, said the hearing was scheduled for Sept. 24…
Woz: Apple should’ve split up a long time ago, ‘Big Tech’ is too big
Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak comments on the antitrust scrutiny of big tech companies…
20+ U.S. states to move forward with antitrust probe of ‘Big Tech’ firms including Apple
A group of U.S. states is preparing to move forward with a joint antitrust investigation of big technology companies…
Apple, not Google or Facebook, the target of global antitrust regulators
Apple – not Facebook or Google – is rapidly emerging as the test case for how officials in Brussels, Washington and beyond clamp down on Big Tech’s digital empires…
U.S. Senate Democrats ask for details on antitrust probes into Apple, other tech firms
Seven U.S. Senate Democrats asked the Trump administration on Friday to disclose details of possible Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department…
Senator Bernie Sanders: ‘We should definitely take a look at’ breaking up Google, Amazon, Apple
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Tuesday “we should definitely take a look at” splitting up Google, Amazon and Apple…
Senator Elizabeth Warren’s simple solutions, like breaking up Apple, won’t work
Only when pushed to say it, Warren gives up the App Store…
Senator Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Apple, too
Warren said Apple uses its market dominance to squash competition…
Senator Elizabeth Warren pushes to break up big tech companies Google, Facebook, and Amazon; affect Apple’s App Store
Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveiled a plan Friday to break up massive technology companies…
Should Apple’s power over Facebook worry the rest of us?
At around 2:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Facebook sent me an update about the controversial market research program…
Big surprise: Google is also abusing Apple’s Enterprise Certificate system to collect extensive data on users
It looks like Facebook is not the only one abusing Apple’s system for distributing employee-only apps …
Google CEO Pichai denies company’s political bias in congressional hearing
Google’s chief executive officer Sundar Pichai rejected claims of political bias against conservatives…
U.S. senator says privacy bill draft could arrive in early 2019
Members of U.S. Congress from both parties have criticized Facebook, Google, and Twitter over data breaches, a lack of online privacy options, and concern about political bias…
Congress to grill Google CEO about political bias; ‘Search engines can be used to suppress particular viewpoints’ – U.S. Congressman
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is scheduled to testify before Congress next Wednesday…
Facebook really is spying on you – just not through your phone’s mic
Facebook is now so good at watching what we do online — and even offline, wandering around the physical world — it doesn’t need to hear us…
Apple launches new website devoted to privacy, showing off features of iPhones and Macs
The feature comes as Apple contrast itself vs. companies like Facebook and Google, which rely on collecting data about their users and making it available to advertisers…
Facebook says Russian firms ‘scraped’ data, including users’ photos to build facial recognition profiles for Russian government
Facebook removed 66 accounts, pages and apps linked to Russian firms that build facial recognition software for the Russian government…