Big tech
The Raw Deal Amazon and Spotify Offer Artists
In 2012, Jeff Bezos claimed in a letter to Amazon shareholders that the company was serving humanity by eliminating old-fashioned “gatekeepers,” like book publishers, that stood between creators and their audiences. Today, nearly three decades since its founding, the company has indeed replaced these businesses with an even bigger and more centralized gatekeeper: Amazon itself. …
The perplexing case of our missing technology titans
The ongoing kerfuffle between Big Tech and the government has brought a stark fact to light. Despite there being 755 million internet users in India and the country being a hub of software talent whose engineers churn out billions of lines of code that keep Big Tech ticking, our so-called tech giants can barely measure …
Big technology companies lead US stock indexes sharply lower
(AP) – The stock market posted its biggest drop since October Wednesday, led by declines in several Big Tech companies. The S&P 500 gave up 2.6%. The benchmark index had set a record high just two days earlier. The selling was broad, though technology giants including Facebook, Netflix and Google’s parent company accounted for a …
2021: Technology platforms will bear the brunt of the free speech debate
2021 will be year when the appeal and scalability of the Atma Nirbhar apps’ ecosystem is tested, especially in the social media space. Synopsis The year 2020 also saw a global debate brewing over platforms and their content moderation practices, specifically around hate speech and the scaling up of misinformation in the wake of the …
5G, Huawei, blockchain: Trends shaping technology in 2020
Small toy figures are seen in front of a displayed Huawei and 5G network logo in this illustration picture. Dado Ruvic, Reuters/Illustration/file LONDON — In 2020, will the wow factor return to consumer hardware? Will blockchain and 5G punch into the mainstream? Or will the world unify against Big Tech’s tax-avoiding practices? AFP looks at …
Amazon’s second employee calls for breaking up Jeff Bezos’ empire – tech
One of Amazon’s first employees who helped build the company from scratch has come out in favour of breaking the e-commerce behemoth. Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos hired computer programmer Paul Davis in 1994 – his second employee at the company. Davis has told ReCode that Amazon needs to separate from the “Amazon Marketplace” …
WeWork’s Implosion Shows How SoftBank Is Breaking the World
Why should we believe any of the people responsible for the ongoing tech bubble when they claim what they’re doing has great benefit for humanity? Listening to them, you might think that rising inequality, rampant tax evasion, and ecological devastation are simply capitalism run amok. This assertion, however, obscures what the bubble has done to …
Breaking Up Google Will Make It Harder ‘To Prevent The Next Trump Situation’
We’ve all known that Big Tech has a liberal bias. Silicon Valley is loaded with progressives. Though they hate conservatives, these techies also like making money. To be fair, they do work with everyone. Facebook has dedicated teams that serve Republicans and conservative. That still doesn’t mean they can’t enact policies that impact them more. …
Andrew Yang: Breaking up big tech won’t solve ‘fundamental problems’ of social media
Entrepreneur and Democratic presidential candidate Andrew YangAndrew Yang2020 Democrats look to cut into Biden’s lead with black voters 2020 Democrats look to cut into Biden’s lead with black voters Juan Williams: Trump’s incredible shrinking GOP MORE warned Tuesday that breaking up big tech companies, an idea that has drawn support from fellow 2020 contenders, wouldn’t …
