It is more likely to be an example of how not to go about banning social media | Asia (2024)
As TikTok continues to face increased scrutiny, the company is signaling its commitment to fostering educational content on its app. From the re... (2024)
After marathon 'final' talks which stretched to almost three days European Union lawmakers have tonight clinched a political deal on a risk-based A... (2023)
California’s crackdown on carbon will have international repercussions. It is not just attacking big oil. Big everything is in the line of fire | B... (2023)
It is not a big enough player in AI | Europe (2023)
Singapore and food security. The home of cultivated meat. Singapore has also become the global launchpad for foods made through precision fermenta... (2023)
Government control the banking sector; What will it look like after the next spell of instability? | Finance & economics (2023)
The decision barring the takeover of a big video game publisher is a major victory for proponents of regulating tech giants, which have faced obsta... (2023)
Governments must accept that green power is pricey | Leaders (2023)
The Digital Markets Act will force Big Tech platforms to break open their walled gardens in 2023, says the EU’s new ambassador to Silicon Valley. (2022)
Visa and Plaid called off their agreement this afternoon, ending the consumer credit giant’s takeover of the data-focused fintech API startup. The ... (2021)
The European Union is planning new legislation aimed at curbing the worst harms associated with artificial intelligence. (2022)
A Treasury Department proposal bypasses established rulemaking procedures, fails to solve the real issues, and threatens to harm U.S. innovation. (2021)
No. They need to save themselves (2020)
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company is not capable of employing all of its drivers in California, as it was ordered to do by a state judge.... (2020)
The App Store is not one thing: it is installation, payments, and customer management; the further Apple gets from iOS, the worse its actions are f... (2020)
Pavel Durov’s grand cryptocurrency dreams for his Telegram messaging service are ending with an $18.5 million civil settlement with the U.S. Securi... (2020)
Critics have said that Google bundles its ad tools so that rivals can't afford to match its offerings and that its operation of search results, You... (2020)
The Australia government has said it will adopt a mandatory code to require tech giants such as Google and Facebook to pay local media for reusing ... (2020)
Hidden in the SEC’s complaint against Telegram is an interesting nuance with potential implications for the broader private equity markets. (2020)
A motley group of powerful companies have their knives out for Section 230, which shields platforms from lawsuits over content posted by users. (2020)
The Chinese scientist and two associates were sentenced after a secret trial. (2019)
Swedish mobile telecoms company Ericsson has agreed to pay over $1 billion to resolve probes into corruption, including the bribing of government o... (2019)
When the European Union adopted the new copyright directive, including its infamous Article 17, the upload filtering provision, it gave Member Stat... (2019)
European Union finance ministers have agreed to a de facto ban on the launch in the region of so-called global “stablecoins” such as Facebook’s pla... (2019)
Disputes are bound to get nastier “... The wto’s appellate body is one of those institutions that most people have never heard of, but which wil... (2019)
Juul has stopped selling a number of its flavored nicotine products — mango, creme, fruit and cucumber — in the U.S., pending a review by the U.S. ... (2019)
Europe’s top court has ruled that pre-checked consent boxes for dropping cookies are not legally valid. Consent must be obtained prior to storing o... (2019)
France and Germany have agreed to block Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, the French finance ministry said on Friday. (2019)
Just ahead of WWDC, Apple has launched a new App Store website in the hopes of better defending itself against recent antitrust and anti-competitiv... (2019)
Why Electric Planes are Inevitably Coming (2021)
Listen to this episode from 16 Minutes News by a16z on Spotify. In this special "3x" episode of our news show -- where we cover the he... (2020)
Ben and James discuss Senator Warren’s proposal to break up Big Tech, including why its history is wrong, why details matter, and what needs to be ... (2019)
David Hua is CEO and cofounder of Meadow. Meadow makes retail and delivery software for dispensaries. They were part of the Winter 2015 batch. You ... (2018)
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a second day of hearings on the company’s mishandling of dat... (2018)