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
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
Popular mobile game Roblox pauses China service amid crackdown
Beijing: Popular virtual gaming platform Roblox has stopped its services in the Chinese market as it makes the necessary investments, including investments in data architecture, amid the countrys crackdown on Big Tech…
- Technology
German watchdog puts Google under closer antitrust scrutiny
London: Germany’s antitrust watchdog paved the way Wednesday for extra scrutiny of Google by designating it a company of paramount significance,” the first to get that label since regulators got more power…