Biased Big Tech algorithms limit our lives and choices. Stop the online discrimination.
The leaders of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google have some serious explaining to do about bias and discrimination when they appear Wednesday at an antitrust hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. The abuse of trust by the platform-based…
Republicans tear into panel’s Democrats on eve of major tech hearing
Republican staffers on the House Judiciary Committee are blasting the panel’s management of Wednesday’s high-stakes hearing into the tech industry, according to a GOP memo obtained by POLITICO — accusing Democrats of harboring…
Tech CEOs’ opening statements for Wednesday’s tech antitrust hearing
Read the prepared opening remarks from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook, who will testify at a House antitrust hearing on Wednesday. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s opening…
Indian Tech Moguls Urge Modi To Be Tougher on Chinese Rivals
(Bloomberg) — Leaders in India’s technology industry are urging the country to go even further to protect the interests of local companies against foreign rivals, or risk ceding the world’s fastest growing internet arena to Chinese and American…
Stock futures open higher ahead of Big Tech hearing, Fed meeting
Stock futures opened higher Tuesday evening ahead of an eventful Wednesday, during which Big Tech executives will testify before Congress and the Federal Open Market Committee will release its July monetary policy statement. A host of quarterly corporate…
Lawmakers keen to break up ‘big tech’ like Amazon and Google need to realize the world has changed a lot since Microsoft and Standard Oil
House lawmakers are grilling the four CEOs on July 29. AP Photo Big tech is back in the spotlight. The chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are testifying before Congress on July 29 to defend their market dominance from accusations…
Brokers Recommend These Tech Stocks & So Do We
With the FAANG stocks beginning to report this week, there’s much excitement around tech. That’s because, being some of the largest-cap stocks, they tend to influence overall market movement and especially, tech-heavy indexes like the NASDAQ. And of…
Big Tech has no friends in Washington anymore
Hello, everyone! Welcome to the new edition of Insider Today. Please sign up here. QUOTE OF THE DAY “The CEOs don’t want to be testifying. Even having this collective hearing creates a sense of quasi-guilt just because of who else has gotten…
Tax Hike Under Biden Poses Bigger Threat to Tech Than Hearing
(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc. are girding for a tough hearing in Congress on Wednesday. But the real threat facing the tech firms comes not from lawmakers now, but from higher taxes later if Joe Biden…
South Florida city is first in US to use new tech to speed up response to school threats
Coral Springs will be the first city in the country to implement a new technology designed to speed up law enforcement response times in the case of a threat to school safety. The Active Law Enforcement Response Technology (ALERT) from IntraLogic…