Big Tech

Best of BS Opinion: IBC@10, consumer 'value logic', Big Tech's feudalism

BS Opinion today examines the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code at 10, decentralisation challenges, evolving consumer behaviour, and the decline in Big Tech platform quality

Enshittification: How Big Tech went from innovation to digital feudalism

The mischievous quality of the book's title or the emoji on its cover might mislead readers into dismissing it as lightweight reading

How to Rule the World: The secret elite one freshman discovered at Stanford

Baker pursues the story like a campus reincarnation of Woodward and Bernstein

CCI will not allow 'winner-takes-all tyranny' of Big Tech: Member

Competition Commission seeks to strike the right balance to ensure that it neither stifles innovation with over-regulation nor allows the "winner-takes-all tyranny" of the Big Tech, the watchdog's member Sweta Kakkad said on Wednesday. Speaking at the 17th annual day function of the Competition Commission of India (CCI), she said the rise of artificial intelligence and its impact on pricing, algorithms and digital ecosystems are the newer challenges and that the regulator will deal with them efficiently. CCI has the mandate to keep a tab on unfair business practices and promote fair competition at the market place. "We are at the crossroads where the CCI tries to strike a balance that is just right, which neither stifles innovation with over-regulation nor allows the winner-takes-all tyranny of the Big Tech," she said. CCI has been taking action against unfair business practices in digital markets and has also passed orders against entities for violation of competition norms.

What Microsoft's VRS signals about workforce design in Big Tech in AI era

As Microsoft rolls out a voluntary retirement programme for its US workforce, experts say AI may push firms to trim middle layers and redirect costs

Is the world going to tariff Big Tech as WTO shifts digital trade rules?

Internet has been tariff-free for decades; if that changes, it's because the world has decided it can't allow the US to run its digital empire forever

AI race sends Big Tech's capital spending to stratospheric high of $650 bn

The ever-larger numbers - in total, an estimated 60 per cent increase from a year ago - means yet another acceleration in the wave of data centre construction taking place around the world

Big Tech's debt binge raises risk in race to create an AI world

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US court allows Meta to keep WhatsApp, Instagram: Decoding the case

A US federal court has rejected the FTC's attempt to break up Meta, ruling that Instagram and WhatsApp can remain under the company's control - a major blow to regulators targeting Big Tech dominance

Big Tech's Climate Strategists Feeling Strain of AI Power Needs

One of Trump's biggest moves against renewables was to use massive tax bill he signed in July to strip away clean energy incentives created through his predecessor Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act

Big Tech firms add 30,000 employees in India in past 12 months: Xpheno

Meta, Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Netflix added over 30,000 jobs in India in the last 12 months, expanding headcount by 17% amid global restructuring

Why Big Tech is turning to nuclear energy to power the AI revolution

Technology giants are exploring nuclear energy as a sustainable solution to fuel the rapidly growing energy needs of AI-driven data centres

Big Tech 'Acquihiring': An ugly but useful trend in AI talent acquisition

The venture capital industry's so-called power-law model means payoffs for investors usually come from just one or two runaway successes like Inflection or Scale AI

Big Tech's soaring energy demands make coal power plants more attractive

Coal-fired power plants, long an increasingly money-losing proposition in the US, are becoming more valuable now that the suddenly strong demand for electricity to run Big Tech's cloud computing and artificial intelligence applications has set off a full-on sprint to find new energy sources. President Donald Trump who has pushed for US energy dominance in the global market and suggested that coal can help meet surging power demand is wielding his emergency authority to entice utilities to keep older coal-fired plants online and producing electricity. While some utilities were already delaying the retirement of coal-fired plants, the scores of coal-fired plants that have been shut down the past couple years or will be shut down in the next couple years are the object of growing interest from tech companies, venture capitalists, states and others competing for electricity. That's because they have a very attractive quality: high-voltage lines connecting to the electricity grid tha

Wall Street sell-off spirals, briefly sends US stocks 10% below its record

Wall Street's sell-off is spiralling Tuesday following President Donald Trump's latest escalation in his trade war, briefly pulling the US stock market 10% below its record set just a few weeks ago. The S&P 500 was down 1.4% in afternoon trading after Trump said he would raise tariffs on steel and aluminum coming from Canada, doubling their planned increase to 50%. The president said it was a response to moves a Canadian province made after Trump began threatening tariffs on one of the United States' most important trading partners. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 678 points, or 1.6%, as of 1:40 pm Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1% lower. The S&P 500 was sitting at the edge of what Wall Street calls a correction," where it falls 10%, and was sitting within 0.1 percentage points of the mark. Such head-spinning moves are becoming routine following a scary ride for investors where the S&P 500 has swung by at least 1%, up or down, seven times in the last .

Motive to hire hundreds as AI unicorns expand, follow Big Tech to India

Motive is among upstarts that are following major tech corporations like Meta and Microsoft into India, betting on one of world's deepest AI engineering pools to speed innovation

Donald Trump considers tariffs to counter digital taxes on US Big Tech

The memo called for the Office of the US Trade Representative to propose retaliatory measures, including tariffs, on countries that impose digital taxes on US tech companies

Google to be hit with EU charges of breaching Big Tech rules: Report

The move by the European Commission comes amid tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump who has sided with U.S. tech giants lobbying against EU regulations and criticising fines as a form of tariff

Meta's Zuckerberg to face Parliamentary summons over India elections remark

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey accused CEO Mark Zuckerberg of spreading misinformation through his earlier comments on the 2024 Indian general election

Apple's revamped app fees draw increased EU scrutiny under big tech rules

The company is facing the risk of a hefty fine for thwarting efforts by third-party developers to steer users toward cheaper deals and offers outside of the App Store