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The United States Department of Justice attorneys are meeting state attorney generals next week to share information in their probe against Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) subsidiary Google, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. What Happened The Justice Department started laying...

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is hiring another 1,000 employees in its UK offices, Reuters reported on Monday. What Happened The California-based social media behemoth will hire across different departments, such as product management, software engineering, data science, and "...

Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is facing a lawsuit in the U.S. federal court for taking part in alleged anticompetitive activities, according to Reuters. What Happened Four mobile app development companies filed a lawsuit against Facebook on Thursday, accusing the company of selectively denying...

Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is sticking to its policy of allowing all political ads to appear on its platform, without any fact-checking, according to Reuters. What Happened Facebook, on Thursday, announced some changes in its political ads policy, including some additional “transparency...

Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) is rolling out a new feature to let users limit who can reply to their tweets on the social media platform. The company announced the update at the CES 2020 event in Las Vegas on Wednesday, TechCrunch reported. What Happened The users will be able to choose who...

Seattle-based e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) paid more 13 times more in taxes in 2017 and 2018 in Japan than it did in 2014, the Nikkei reported on Monday. What Happened Amazon's Japanese subsidiaries paid approximately $137.4 million (15 billion yen) in taxes both in...

Shenzhen-based technology giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. (OTC: TCTZF) is creating a new digital currency team, Coindesk reported on Tuesday, citing local media reports. What Happened According to CoinDesk, Tencent sent out an internal notice to employees informing them that the company is...

Forbes published its annual list of most powerful women on Thursday. Merkel At The Top — Again Angela Merkel, whom Forbes describes as the "de facto leader of Europe," has been voted the most powerful woman in the world for the 12th time since she was elected Germany's...

Tech giants like Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) and Alphabet Inc’s Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) are no longer in the Glassdoor's top 10 “best places to work” rankings for 2020. What Happened Glassdoor’s annual rankings for “best places to work” in 2020, released...

Technology giants are bringing digital financial services to more people in the world than ever, but the authorities should be watchful for anti-competitive practices and unfair advantage over traditional systems, the Financial Stability Board said in a report on Sunday. The FSB is an...

Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included e-commerce, electric vehicle and semiconductor leaders. Bearish calls included video streaming giant and biotech giants. The first week of December started with a record start to the...

The office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Monday proposed to impose up to 100% additional duties on certain French imports worth $2.4 billion. What Happened The federal agency said that its investigation found France’s Digital Services Tax to be “burdensome” for the...

For every Trump campaign ad Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) refuses to take down, there is plenty that it has, in fact, removed for violating its policies, CBS’s 60 minutes reported on Sunday. What Happened The company’s two vital subsidiaries Google and YouTube removed more than...

Today, there's an app for pretty much anything. Moreover, apps keep developing as the world gets more and more connected. Entrepreneurs and managers are able to choose from a variety of tools to improve their productivity since every moment wasted during work is either time or both time and...

Author Ben Mezrich, who wrote the story of Facebook, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: FB) co-founding that became the film "The Social Network", thinks CEO Mark Zuckerberg needs to act as a publisher in policing truth in political ads on Facebook. "Zuckerberg is hiding himself under the free speech thing to do...