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Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who chaired the hearing, said being distinct from Facebook isn’t enough to cut it for the three tech giants. “That bar is in the gutter,” he told the company officials.
Internal Facebook documents show how the pro-Trump Stop the Steal movement proliferated on the world’s biggest social network between the presidential election and the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Lyft and Uber fares are estimated to be nearly 80% higher than pre-pandemic prices in some cities. The companies say a driver shortage is pushing up prices.
CEO Tim Cook defended Apple on the witness stand on Friday in a trial playing out in Oakland, Calif. Epic Games, which is suing Apple, accuses it of being an illegal monopoly.
CEO Tim Cook will be forced to defend his company from an Oakland courtroom against accusations from Epic Games that Apple is an illegal monopolist that has policies that stifle competition.
Twitter acted swiftly to restrict engagement on the tweet, blocking retweets, likes and comments on the platform. But Twitter still allowed the video message to be quote tweeted.
The state and federal officials say Facebook’s acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram violated competition laws and served to stifle rivals by giving the social network an unfair advantage.
An agreement worth up to $12 billion made Google the de facto choice for online search on millions of iPhones. Justice officials say the deal may be anticompetitive under U.S. law.
Nathan Apodaca, 37, of Idaho Falls, recorded a laid-back video riding a skateboard downhill while drinking Cran-Raspberry juice. The Internet went wild and streamed Fleetwood Mac.
U.S. tech company Oracle is joining hands with Walmart to become a technology partner with TikTok and arrangement that satisfies the White House’s concerns over the security.
The president also issued an executive order aimed at cutting ties between the U.S. and the owner of the popular Chinese communications and social media app WeChat.
Democratic Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline said Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple operate like monopolies and need to be broken up or regulated.
The CEOs plan to tell Congress on Wednesday that the giant American tech companies do not stifle competition, saying the concern that too much power is concentrated in too few companies is unfounded.
The heads of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple will face lawmakers’ questions about whether they are using their power to squash competition.
Twitter confirms to NPR that it is investigating the coordinated hack, which attacked the accounts of some of the richest and most popular names on Twitter and may have reaped more than $100,000.
President Trump signs an executive order aimed at limiting the broad legal protections enjoyed by social media companies days after Twitter fact-checked two of his tweets.
A link is added to a tweet in which the president claims without evidence that mail-in ballots are fraudulent. A Twitter spokesman says the tweet wasn’t deleted because it didn’t discourage voting.
Trump had initially announced 15-day social distancing guidelines and then suggested the recommendations could be relaxed. But Trump said the guidance will be extended.