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Google and Facebook may face higher tax bills in Europe as the EU rushed to change rules so that more of Silicon Valleys mega profits fall into public coffers. (photo: AFP)

Tech stocks battered after disappointing Amazon and Alphabet results

The weak results from Amazon and Google parent Alphabet were the latest setback for the high-growth quartet of stocks...

26 Oct 2018 9:59 AM IST

Intel has been increasingly catering to data centres as revenue from PCs has flattened since shipments peaked in 2011.

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Intel bucks chip industry woes; powered by PCs, iPhones

The company's 39 per cent rise in profits and better-than-expected fourth-quarter forecast should come as a relief for...

26 Oct 2018 9:48 AM IST

Twitter has deleted millions of suspicious accounts after it and other social media services were used in misinformation campaigns attempting influence voters in the 2016 US presidential race and other elections.

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Twitter shares hit biggest one-day gain as ad sales surge

The surge in shares reversed a 19 percent fall three months ago when Twitter shocked Wall Street with a similar decline...

26 Oct 2018 9:35 AM IST

Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks about Google Assistant during a product event in San Francisco. Google is likely to again put artificial intelligence in the spotlight at its annual developers conference. (Photo:AP)

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Google's Sundar Pichai says 48 employees were fired for sexual...

The report said the search engine giant protected three senior executives from allegations of sexual misconduct.

26 Oct 2018 9:25 AM IST

You can now delete an embarrasing Snapchat message.

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Snap expects to lose more users, shares plunge

Daily active users are expected to fall again next quarter, Snap Chief Financial Officer Tim Stone told analysts.

26 Oct 2018 8:14 AM IST

Bad deal, should have never been thought of. Somebody really messed up. And they had the worst cover-up ever, Trump said. (Photo: File)

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Trump signs order to set US spectrum strategy as 5G race looms

Trump is also creating a White House Spectrum Strategy Task Force and wants federal agencies to report on government...

26 Oct 2018 8:06 AM IST

Googles written testimony did not identify specific prior mistakes but the company has come under fire for privacy issues. (Photo: AP)

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Alphabet misses Wall Street revenue estimates; shares fall

Alphabet disclosed, for example, that passengers of its self-driving Waymo minivans are now paying for rides.

26 Oct 2018 7:57 AM IST

$Rather than waiting to respond to a famine after many have already died, the tech firms, including Amazon, \will use the predictive power of data to trigger funding\ to take action before it becomes a crisis, the World Bank and UN announced. (Representational image/ Photo: AFP)$ Technology