Tag: Big Tech
Amazon Exec Tried Lobbying Third-Party Sellers For Support Against Big Tech...
An Amazon vice president took to a popular forum used by third-party merchants to encourage them to reject landmark legislation targeting the power of...
Evaluating 2 Tech Antitrust Bills To Restore Competition Online
By: Adam Conner & Erin Simpson (Center for American Progress)
The past 25 years have brought momentous growth in online services. Should the United States...
Colorado AG Takes Aim At Big Tech & Big Telecom
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser advised state and local leaders to devote resources both toward creating strong data privacy measures and developing broadband deployment...
Big Tech Meets With EU Parliament To Talk eCommerce & Platforms
A delegation of the European Parliament met with executives from tech companies including Google, Meta, Apple, Airbnb, eBay, PayPal, and Uber to discuss the...
New Bipartisan Bill Would Force Google To Break Up Ad Business
Legislation introduced in the US Senate would force Google to break up its online advertising business marking one of the most aggressive attempts to...
Senate Majority Leader Schumer Looks To Have Vote On Antitrust Bill...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wants bipartisan tech antitrust legislation to be voted on this summer, reported Axios.
Axios reported that Schumer met with Sens....
The Clock Is Running Out For Congress To Pass Big Tech...
By Jon Swartz, MarketWatch
Nearly three years ago, when the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission launched probes into the business practices of Big Tech, antitrust...
Democratic Senator Calls For A Big Tech Regulator
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) on Thursday introduced legislation that would create a new federal watchdog to regulate the country’s biggest technology companies.
“As a country,...
EU Countries Want Big Tech To Pay For Infrastructure
European Union member countries want tech companies like Google and Netflix to chip in cash for telecoms infrastructure in order to ramp up 5G...
EU’s Vestager Calls For Global Action To Reign In Big Tech
Europe's antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, the architect of landmark rules to curb the power of US tech giants, called on Thursday for a global...