A $20-billion fund-raising spree may take India’s Reliance closer to its dream of becoming a digital giant, further threatening the plans of US companies such as Amazon.com, Walmart and Zoom.
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Google said its corporate Gmail customers would now be able to edit documents and other files without leaving the e-mail service, as it aims to lure clients from Microsoft.
Google has agreed to buy a $4.5-billion stake in Jio Platforms, the digital arm of Reliance Industries, adding to a series of large investments from the US into the online venture.
TikTok has become one of the world’s most popular apps by serving up a steady beat of lip-syncing videos and viral memes. But it’s also scooping up massive amounts of data on its users and tracking their every move.
Facebook and Google have for years operated like shop windows for news stories, plying their billions of visitors with free snippets from articles across the Web. An antitrust tussle is set to change that.
India’s richest man surged past Silicon Valley tech titan Elon Musk as well as Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page to become the world’s sixth-richest person.
As of Monday morning’s open on Wall Street, Apple – the listed US company that’s attracted the largest valuation of them all – had a market capitalisation of $1.7-trillion.
The US stock market has been on a tear for the past three months, and Big Tech gets much of the credit. But how can this possibly be when the coronavirus has inflicted so much damage?
As US authorities ready the biggest antitrust case of the new century, there are lessons to be learnt from Europe’s attempt to inject more competition into search, one of the most lucrative digital markets.
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