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...months to show that they are compliant with the rest of the rules, including a legal requirement to ask users for consent if companies want to merge data from different services, such as Instagram and Facebook...
...On Wednesday, the Facebook parent detailed charges of $4.6bn related to restructuring....
...Google’s parent Alphabet, Facebook parent Meta and enterprise software giant Salesforce are among the US technology groups seeking to abandon leased office space in London and Dublin, according to people...
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...It was the first to strip bondholders of the long-held one bond, one vote tradition in a deal for Ancestry.com in 2020....
...Facebook, Amazon and Apple did not respond to requests for comment....
...Meta, formerly known as Facebook, could add to the concerns if, as expected, it reports that its revenue slipped 5 per cent in the third quarter....
...Similar moves across the Atlantic would address accusations that Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google abuse their monopoly position to pump their own products ahead of rivals’ offerings....
...The bill, which has been championed in the Senate by the Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar and in the House by her party colleague David Cicilline, specifically targets Amazon, Alphabet, Apple and Facebook...
...Shares in the social media platform plunged 23 per cent on Thursday as investors fretted that a weak revenue forecast from Meta, parent of Facebook, would spill over into the wider digital advertising sector...
...“Microsoft has realised that it doesn’t want to be associated with Google, Facebook and Amazon,” said Barry Lynn, executive director of the Open Markets Institute, an anti-monopoly campaign group....
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...Google and Facebook declined to comment. Apple and Amazon did not respond to requests to do so. Additional reporting by Hannah Murphy, Richard Waters, Dave Lee and Patrick McGee...
...Google and Facebook each registered their strongest advertising growth for years, with Google’s ad revenue increasing 32 per cent and Facebook’s leaping 46 per cent....
...Richard Waters sees the trend continuing in the next two weeks with Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft reporting....
...Salesforce.com, VMware, Dell and HP Inc also report....
...Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google all declined to comment....
...The combined power usage of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple is more than 45 terawatt-hours a year, about as much as New Zealand....
...Automation an automatic choiceJapan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
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