Amazon to hire 100,000 more workers in its latest job spree this year in the U.S
Amazon.com Inc on Monday said it is recruiting 100,000 more workers – the fourth hiring spree it has announced for the United States this year – to keep pace with…
Facebook to pay users for voice recordings
Facebook is offering to pay its users for personal information including recordings of their own voice, in a rare example of internet companies directly compensating people for collecting their data….
‘Big Tech’ companies could be forced to share data on financial services customers – FSB
Google, Alibaba and other “Big Tech” companies could be forced to share data on financial services customers with banks and financial technology firms to prevent unfair competition. As Facebook’s…
Watchdog groups urge FTC to block Google’s Fitbit deal
Lawmakers pressed top U.S. antitrust enforcers on their probes of tech giants Alphabet’s Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple on Wednesday, with the chair of a House subcommittee expressing frustration over…
UK lawmakers call for action on banks, Big Tech companies to avoid IT failures
British regulators should impose higher levies on banks if they need more resources to stop big IT glitches and should consider regulating cloud service providers such as Google, UK lawmakers…
House investigators say they have begun receiving data from big tech firms
The leaders of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee said late on Tuesday that they had begun receiving data from Facebook, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Apple as part of their…
New Zealand PM Ardern steps up fight against extremist online content with more funding
PM, Jacinda Ardern New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced more funding and support on Monday to target violent extremist content online, just months after an alleged white supremacist…
Pope urges conservatives to be open to changes in Church
Pope Francis Pope Francis appealed to conservatives on Sunday not to be bound by the status quo as he opened an assembly of bishops to discuss the future of…
Zuckerberg says Warren as U.S. president would be bad for tech
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg told employees in July that the company would “go to the mat” to defeat Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren’s expected effort to break up…