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15 U.S. state attorneys general demand that Apple, Google raise TikTok to ’17+’ age rating

Wednesday, December 14, 2022 9:11 amWednesday, December 14, 20227 Comments

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

Wednesday, January 19, 2022 2:44 pmWednesday, January 19, 20225 Comments

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

Tuesday, January 18, 2022 2:27 pm5 Comments

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

Wednesday, July 7, 2021 12:04 pmWednesday, July 7, 202169 Comments

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

Thursday, April 1, 2021 11:06 pmThursday, April 1, 202131 Comments

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

Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:45 pmWednesday, October 28, 202044 Comments

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

Friday, October 2, 2020 11:21 am12 Comments

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

Tuesday, July 28, 2020 2:21 pm63 Comments

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

Saturday, July 25, 2020 7:17 am1 Comment

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

Friday, July 24, 2020 12:03 am9 Comments

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

Thursday, July 23, 2020 11:15 am6 Comments

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

Tuesday, July 7, 2020 5:02 pmTuesday, July 7, 20202 Comments

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

Thursday, July 2, 2020 5:55 pm1 Comment

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?

Tuesday, June 16, 2020 6:12 pm3 Comments

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

Friday, January 24, 2020 9:31 amFriday, January 24, 202014 Comments

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

Thursday, January 16, 2020 10:39 pmFriday, January 17, 20201 Comment

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

Friday, December 13, 2019 5:32 pmFriday, December 13, 20192 Comments

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

Friday, October 18, 2019 5:30 pmFriday, October 18, 201910 Comments

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

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 11:15 am1 Comment

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

Tuesday, September 3, 2019 5:22 pm3 Comments

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

Wednesday, August 28, 2019 8:42 am7 Comments

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

Tuesday, August 20, 2019 12:02 pmTuesday, August 20, 201922 Comments

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

Wednesday, August 7, 2019 10:56 amWednesday, August 7, 20196 Comments

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

Friday, June 21, 2019 5:02 pmFriday, June 21, 201919 Comments

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

Wednesday, June 19, 2019 10:01 amWednesday, June 19, 201963 Comments

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

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 1:49 pmThursday, March 14, 201931 Comments

Only when pushed to say it, Warren gives up the App Store…

Senator Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Apple, too

Monday, March 11, 2019 8:58 amMonday, March 11, 201947 Comments

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

Friday, March 8, 2019 12:02 pmFriday, March 8, 201978 Comments

Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveiled a plan Friday to break up massive technology companies…

Should Apple’s power over Facebook worry the rest of us?

Thursday, January 31, 2019 11:25 amThursday, January 31, 201927 Comments

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

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 3:55 pmWednesday, January 30, 20192 Comments

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

Tuesday, December 11, 2018 4:24 pmTuesday, December 11, 20188 Comments

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

Wednesday, November 28, 2018 4:26 pmWednesday, November 28, 201810 Comments

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

Wednesday, November 28, 2018 4:00 pmWednesday, November 28, 201821 Comments

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

Friday, October 19, 2018 9:30 amFriday, October 19, 20188 Comments

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

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 5:00 pmWednesday, October 17, 20185 Comments

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

Monday, October 15, 2018 10:28 amMonday, October 15, 20183 Comments

Facebook removed 66 accounts, pages and apps linked to Russian firms that build facial recognition software for the Russian government…

Google exposed user data, did not disclose to public fearing repercussions

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 12:57 pm5 Comments

Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network…

What Google isn’t telling us about its ‘Duplex’ AI demo

Thursday, May 17, 2018 5:33 pmThursday, May 17, 201834 Comments

Google made headlines by demonstrating an AI-powered voice assistant that made haircut and restaurant reservations…

Apple CEO Tim Cook heads to China as President Trump orders 25 percent tariffs on up to $60 billion in Chinese imports

Friday, March 23, 2018 11:31 am21 Comments

On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive memorandum to impose tariffs on up to $60 billion in Chinese imports…

Apple CEO Cook opposes President Trump’s reinstatement of the military’s ban on transgender service members

Thursday, July 27, 2017 1:27 pmThursday, July 27, 201793 Comments

Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has issued guidance to military commanders…

Indian Prime Minister Modi meets with Apple CEO Cook ahead of President Trump today

Monday, June 26, 2017 9:57 am2 Comments

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with top executives from Apple, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and others ahead of his meeting with President Trump…

TIME’s 20 Most Influential People in Tech: Apple CEO Tim Cook No. 4

Tuesday, May 9, 2017 11:11 am8 Comments

The latest technological breakthroughs can sometimes seem to emerge from…

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