Big Tech
- Jobs
2 lakh tech employees lose jobs in 2023 to date, more in the offing
New Delhi: The year 2023 has become the worst year for tech employees as nearly 2 lakh tech employees — from Big Tech firms to startups — have been sacked to date…
- Technology
Govts to Big Tech: Create responsible AI first and then make it public
New Delhi: The generative AI era came fast. However, the government scrutiny into Big Tech on AI came much faster to promote responsible innovation and risk mitigation as AI chatbots begin to…
- World
Big Tech has moral, legal responsibility to develop ethical AI: Kamala Harris
San Francisco: US Vice President Kamala Harris has told top Big Tech CEOs, including Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI…
- Technology
What Big Tech companies are saying to justify mass layoffs
New Delhi: As more and more Big Tech companies continue to sack employees, they have listed various reasons behind the move — over-hiring, uncertain global macroeconomic conditions, strong tailwinds from the Covid-19…
- Technology
Techies earning up to USD 1 mn a year laid off at Big Tech firms
San Francisco: As Big Tech layoffs dominate headlines, more details have emerged on which verticals and senior executives earning up to $1 million annually bore the maximum brunt at Google, Microsoft, and…
- Technology
Big Tech to testify on anti-competitive practices before govt panel
New Delhi: Representatives of Big Tech like Amazon, Google, Netflix and Microsoft, among others, have been summoned by the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Finance on Tuesday to depose on the subject of…
- Business
Govt should not allow backdoor entry to Big Tech for 5G: COAI
New Delhi: The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the industry’s apex body representing telcos, on Thursday urged the government not to allow Big Tech companies to enter the 5G spectrum auction…
- Technology
Facebook whistleblower to train lawyers how to fight Big Tech
San Francisco: Frances Haugen, a whistleblower who exposed Facebook and testified in front of lawmakers about the social network’s illegal data activities, is raising up to $5 million to kick off a…
- Technology
IT Ministry plans to reverse content moderation decisions by Big Tech
New Delhi: The Indian government has republished a draft that reveals the plan to form an appeals panel that can reverse content moderation decisions by Big Tech companies like Twitter, Facebook and…
- Technology
Parents can soon monitor kids’ friend list, chats on Snapchat
New Delhi: Popular social media platform Snapchat is reportedly planning to introduce a new parental control feature called “Family Center,” which will allow parents to see who are the friends of their…
- Technology
Big Tech firms commit $925 mn to reduce carbon footprint
New Delhi: Big Tech companies like Meta (formerly Facebook), Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Stripe, Shopify and McKinsey have pledged $925 million to purchase captured carbon and help save the Earth. Funded by…
- Technology
Australia’s social media anti-trolling bill raises alarm for Big Tech
Sydney: Big Tech companies like Meta, Twitter and YouTube have decried Australia’s proposed social media anti-trolling bill, stressing that it would put an “unprecedented level” of defamation risk on social media platforms.…
