27-08-2019 08:45
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday (Aug 26) G7 members had reached an agreement on the taxation of tech giants, a long-standing subject of friction between France and the US which has threatened to retaliate with tariffs on French wines.
20-08-2019 11:10
American tech giants Amazon, Facebook and Google joined forces on Monday (Aug 19) to decry the French digital tax as retroactive and discriminatory.
31-07-2019 16:50
Facebook and Google may no longer be able to ignore paying copyright fees to content creators as more and more countries, the latest being France, making strong efforts to bring the tech giants under the scope of the law.
30-07-2019 09:00
The video-sharing platform YouTube is striving to block those who would use it to promote racism, hate speech, violence and disinformation, its number two executive has told AFP, as the Google-owned company comes under increasing scrutiny.
17-07-2019 10:35
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Tuesday (Jul 16) urged the G7 club of top world economic powers to find an international solution to taxing digital giants at their meeting outside Paris this week.
04-07-2019 07:37
After coming under fire across the globe for tax evasion, Google finally raised its voice about the issue. However, contrary to the forecasted objection, the tech giant’s representative said that it completely agrees that there is need for an international tax framework on multinational companies.
26-06-2019 17:06
The Tourism Department of central Quang Binh province announced on June 25 that it is working with Google to launch a campaign popularising regional travel destinations on YouTube and Google Arts & Culture platform.
24-06-2019 13:00
Australia's competition watchdog is poised to call for far-reaching new regulations on Facebook, Google and other tech giants which could have global ramifications for how they make money and choose the content people consume.
20-06-2019 22:00
The European Union’s new copyright law, which will require tech giants like Facebook and Google to pay copyright fees for creators when their works are shared on their platforms, setting a powerful precedent for countries trying to extend supervision over the operations of them, including Vietnam.
15-06-2019 07:25
Got It, an on-demand expert platform and artificial intelligence (AI) innovator, has launched Querychat for cloud data warehouses starting with Google BigQuery, making it the first on-demand Expert Service Cloud for analytics.
12-06-2019 08:39
US retail giant Amazon has moved past hi-tech titans Apple and Google to become the world's most valuable brand, a key survey showed Tuesday (Jun 11).
03-06-2019 08:51
Congested Google servers in the eastern United States caused problems for users of Snapchat and YouTube on Sunday (Jun 2), with complaints on social media that the popular apps weren't accessible.
30-05-2019 18:00
The European Parliament and the European Commission have already approved the new copyright law, which will require the two largest cross-border platforms hosting user-uploaded content, Facebook and YouTube, to cut licensing deals with creators so they are paid when people share their content from 2021 onwards.
29-05-2019 11:43
Local competitors are complaining about Netflix which they claim is dodging its tax obligation and does not supervise content in line with Vietnamese laws.
22-05-2019 08:00
Google has issued a ban on Huawei, effectively stopping the Chinese electronics manufacturer from accessing future updates of the Android operation system.