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Amazon, Apple, Microsoft set records with their spending on Washington lobbying (MarketWatch)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Wed, 02/01/2023 - 09:40Tech legislation is shifting from antitrust focus to broadband, cybersecurity
Affordable broadband, cybersecurity in the development of healthcare systems, and technology competition with China head the to-do list in 2023, said Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA). Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a former computer programmer, hammered home the importance of cybersecurity with broadband, and its impact on telemedicine and remote work. She is pushing legislation that would require the Food and Drug Administration to review and update medical device cybersecurity guidelines to protect them from hacking and cyber-attacks.
We are learning more about diversity at tech companies, but it isn’t good news (MarketWatch)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 01/22/2021 - 11:11Common Sense Media's Jim Steyer: Only a breakup of Facebook and controls on social media can reduce disinformation and lies (MarketWatch)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 10/16/2020 - 12:26Big Tech’s latest reckoning is coming as it continues to rack up record valuations (MarketWatch)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 07/14/2020 - 11:34Work-from-home productivity pickup has tech CEOs predicting many employees will never come back to the office (MarketWatch)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 05/18/2020 - 11:50Regulating Big Tech was mostly talk in 2019 — expect the same in 2020 (MarketWatch)
Submitted by benton on Sat, 12/28/2019 - 15:33‘Give away $60 billion’ to foreign companies? The ‘America First’ Trump administration faces a tricky 5G choice (MarketWatch)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/11/2019 - 15:18Are Big Tech acquisitions feeding antitrust probes?
As big tech companies collect startups from different industries like Easter eggs, are they unwittingly adding evidence to the antitrust investigations of the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission? While two of the four companies in question -- Alphabet’s Google, and Facebook — slowly begin to concede in public filings and conference calls they are subjects of regulatory scrutiny, they are brazenly scooping up smaller companies that extend their tentacles into new markets and collect more personal information.