Credit: Business Insider - Published 13 hours ago Google CEO Sundar Pichai is testifying before Congress today amid increasing political scrutiny of big tech.
Pichai, appearing before the House Judiciary Committee, is expected to be asked about Google's refusal to take US military contracts, its secretive efforts to make a censored search.. »more
Canada confirmed on Tuesday that one of its citizens was detained in China but said it saw no explicit connection to the arrest in Vancouver of a top executive at Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co [HWT.UL].
Meng Wanzhou, one of Huawei’s top executives and the eldest daughter of the company’s founder/CEO, will be released on bail and kept under tight monitoring over bank fraud allegations, a Canadian court ruled today. The Star Vancouver reported the decision Tuesday, which comes after a growing wave..
Google may have evaded the first few rounds of grill-a-tech-exec, but its CEO Sundar Pichai wound up in the hotseat on the Hill after all. Pichai appeared today, weathering a three and a half hour-long hearing solo with no competitors to offload congressional ire onto. To his credit, Pichai performed..
· Verizon will write down the value of Oath in the fourth quarter 2018 by $4.6 billion.
· The writedown is the result of competitive pressures in the digital ad business.
· The integration between Yahoo and AOL never achieved the benefits Verizon previously anticipated, according to the..
· Most CEOs tend to choose their words carefully, fearing the consequences of saying anything that could be deemed controversial.
· But Elon Musk is not nearly as cautious, sometimes appearing to speak his mind and deal with the consequences later.
· The CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and The..
· Chinese video game publisher Tencent recently implemented facial recognition software to verify the ages of the people playing its games in China.
· The software uses a government database to verify a player's identity. Players are under the age of 18 are limited to playing two hours a day,..
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