Page 9 - Big Tech

From Amazon to Microsoft, big technology firms bet big on India

International technology giants have pulled out all the stops in backing the country's robust digital consumption story

Facebook directed to pay $257 per victim over personal data breach

The leaked data included the lists of the users' Facebook friends

Amazon building Clubhouse competitor that turns hosts into DJs

With this app, Amazon joins the likes of Apple, Spotify and even Sonos, which are looking to programme radio-adjacent content

Explainer: Just what are ''The Facebook Papers,'' anyway?

The Facebook Papers project represents a unique collaboration among 17 American news organizations, including The Associated Press.

People or profit? Facebook papers show deep conflict within

Thousands of pages of internal documents provided to Congress by a former employee depict an internally conflicted company

Facebook knew about, failed to police, abusive content globally: Report

For over a decade, Facebook has pushed to become the world's dominant online platform

Big tech data centres spark worry over scarce Western water

Conflicts over water are as old as history itself, but the massive Google data centres on the edge of this Oregon town on the Columbia River represent an emerging 21st century concern. Now a critical part of modern computing, data centres help people stream movies on Netflix, conduct transactions on PayPal, post updates on Facebook, store trillions of photos and more. But a single facility can also churn through millions of gallons of water per day to keep hot-running equipment cool. Google wants to build at least two more data centres in The Dalles, worrying some residents who fear there eventually won't be enough water for everyone including for area farms and fruit orchards, which are by far the biggest users. Across the United States, there has been some mild pushback as tech companies build and expand data centres conflicts likely to grow as water becomes a more precious resource amid the threat of climate change and as the demand for cloud computing grows. Some tech giants

Britain fines Facebook $70 mn for breaching order in Giphy deal

Facebook has increasingly come under fire from regulators and lawmakers about its business practices.

Facebook plans to hire 10,000 in Europe to build 'metaverse'

The company said in a blog post Sunday that those high-skilled workers will help build the metaverse, a futuristic notion for connecting online that uses augmented and virtual reality.

Biggest tech companies face US Bills on liability and competition

A measure from Energy and Commerce Chair Frank Pallone and other leading House Democrats would revoke legal liability protections for platforms that use algorithms to spread harmful information

Amazon rigged search results to promote its own products in India: Report

Thousands of pages of internal Amazon documents examined by Reuters show the company ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoffs and manipulating search results to boost its own product lines

Gmail suffers outage in India, says Downdetector

Users in India and in some other countries went to social media platforms complaining they were unable to access Gmail.

Ireland buckles to pressure, joins global minimum corporate tax deal

The Irish government, which initially rejected the agreement, said Thursday it had decided to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's global minimum tax accord

RBI dy guv says big tech's financial sector play in India under watch

Both Google Pay and Amazon have announced partnerships with lenders to accept deposits in the country through their mobile phone apps.

Facebook blames outage on error during routine maintenance

The global outage that knocked Facebook and its other platforms offline for hours was caused by an error during routine maintenance, the company said. Santosh Janardhan, Facebook's vice president of infrastructure, said in a blog post that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp going dark was caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our own making." The problem occurred as engineers were carrying out day to day work on Facebook's global backbone network; the computers, routers and software in its data centers around the world along with the fiber-optic cables connecting them. During one of these routine maintenance jobs, a command was issued with the intention to assess the availability of global backbone capacity, which unintentionally took down all the connections in our backbone network, effectively disconnecting Facebook data centers globally, Janardhan said Tuesday. Facebook's systems are designed to catch such mistakes but in this case a bug in the audit tool prevented it

Apple might come out with new MacBook Pro in October: Report

Apart from this, there are rumours doing the rounds that Apple is also preparing for the launch of new, third-generation AirPods

EU lawmaker says US tech giants should be regulated where they are based

The principle means Ireland is responsible for regulating Apple, Alphabet's Google and Facebook because they have their European headquarters there while Amazon is subject to Luxembourg's supervision

Facebook employees were unable to log on to work amid outage

Facebook employees and contractors complained that they were unable to log on to their work accounts during the company's worst service outage since 2008.

Global tax talks race to resolve hurdles as time runs out: Report

OECD-led group aims to resolve issues by October 8 gathering

India's antitrust watchdog CCI must act sans pressure to tame tech giants

As more and more Indian brands and companies strive to go global, the onus is now on the countrys regulators to create a level-playing field for domestic players