US President Donald Trump, stepping up his criticism of technology firms he says are favouring liberal points of view, said they may be in a “very antitrust situation” but repeatedly said he can’t comment publicly on whether they should be broken up.
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Amazon.com headed for its biggest gain in four months, pulling within US$26-billion of becoming America’s second trillion-dollar company, after Morgan Stanley said sales growth remains strong.
It’s tempting to ignore the early morning tweets of a technology-challenged US president. Donald Trump is wrong on the facts, but his complaints underscore the business threats to tech companies from growing and largely disingenuous complaints.
US President Donald Trump has accused Google of rigging its search results to give preference to negative stories about him, adding his voice to conservatives who accuse social media companies of favouring liberal viewpoints.
If you need proof that giant technology companies behave a lot like borderless governments, look no further than the brewing “app store taxes” debate.
A backlash against the app stores of Apple and Google is gaining steam, with a growing number of companies saying the tech giants are collecting too high a tax for connecting consumers to developers’ wares.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees at a meeting that plans to re-enter China with a search engine are “exploratory” and in “early stages”, addressing a topic that has exploded with controversy.
Google may be about to pair all that data it has on users’ Web browsing with the ads displayed on public billboards. Creepy? Maybe. Inevitable? Almost certainly.
Google, the world’s biggest search engine, is welcome to return to China as long as it complies with the nation’s laws and right to control the Internet within its borders, the People’s Daily said.
Google wants to get back into China, and is laying the groundwork for a key part of the initiative: bringing its cloud business to the world’s second largest economy.