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...It comes after Congress previously wrote to Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product officer, urging the US tech giant to make a similar inquiry last month....
...I’m still slowly recovering from a very bad cold that I caught at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona two weeks ago — but at least I’ve got my voice back!...
...“We could hear more when Congress returns [from recess], though we believe many lawmakers may sit this out as they neither want to support Visa/Mastercard nor bank consolidation,” Seiberg wrote....
...Despite the sound and fury emanating from Washington in recent years, regulators have yet to score any big antitrust wins against the tech companies and Congress has failed to advance any important new legislation...
...The former officials argued against the competition bills going through Congress, saying they would put Chinese companies such as Huawei and Tencent “in a better position to assume global pre-eminence”....
...China’s average annual pension per head for urban residents was Rmb50,763 ($6,936) in 2021, about 22 times the rural equivalent, while civil servants received Rmb77,804....
...They also say the bill is being rushed through Congress, which last week voted to skip committee discussions and put the legislation straight to plenary vote....
...She and other justices suggested the US Congress may be best placed to address such a complex matter....
...Kicking off his annual testimony to Congress on Tuesday, he set the scene on economic conditions and noted that data from the opening months of 2023 has been upbeat....
...Maybe at that point Congress would finally summon the will to act. But it wouldn’t do to hold your breath. richard.waters@ft.com...
...When Congress adopted Section 230 in 1996, it was trying to protect small online bulletin boards....
...In March, following intense lobbying by industry, US lawmakers introduced bipartisan legislation in Congress aimed at fast-tracking funding for the tests for people in US government health schemes such as...
...Legislation aimed at so-called self-preferential behaviour of tech giants was advanced in the US Congress last year, to prevent large online platforms from using their influence in one field to boost their...
...President Joe Biden has accused the industry of running experiments on “our children for profit” and wants Congress to pass laws preventing companies from collecting personal data on underage users....
...As of November 28 2022, the group had $19,804 of cash on hand and had borrowed around $271,000 from Pac Management Services LLC group, according its latest FEC filings....
...Dina Srinivasan: Yes . . . and then things started to fall from there . . . a subcommittee in Congress wrote . . ....
...Baker is managing principal at Broadmoor Consulting LLC and a senior fellow at the Richman Center for Business, Law & Public Policy at Columbia Business School and Columbia Law School....
...In the US, bills aimed at curbing the power of big tech platforms are still stalled in Congress amid political bickering. Still, some think Berlin could be moving even faster....
...Executives from Alphabet, Amazon and Apple have all personally spoken to members of Congress, according to officials and industry executives....
...Members of Congress had weighed in amid concerns over Google’s hegemony. Up against titans such as Google, Netflix, Apple and Disney, Roku in just a few years has suddenly become a serious challenger....
...A survey of 804 organisations, representing more than 4.3mn employees, found that one in four put it among the top three reasons for long-term absence, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development...
...If it passes both houses of Congress, the bill will have major implications for companies such as Alphabet and Amazon....
...The US Congress has also set its sights on new legislation similar to the DMA....
...Griffin was called to testify before Congress on the upheaval. Griffin, whose personal fortune Forbes estimated to be around $21bn, has become an avid collector of high-profile artworks....
...Despite being the second most valuable US technology group, Microsoft has been able to dodge the latest focus on antitrust in Congress....
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