Austin Russell's driverless vehicle tech business Luminar has come to market with a valuation of more than $3bn.
A couple of years ago, French President Emmanuel Macron initiated the Tech for Good Summit by inviting 50 tech CEOs to discuss the challenges in the tech industry and make some announcements.Usually,
The limelight-friendly billionaire is now worth more than $148 billion due to a recent surge in Tesla's share price.
In single tweets, careers have been ended, foreign policy spats started and the news agenda upended. But as Donald Trump continues to drive missives across cyberspace from the comfort of the golf cou
President-elect Joe Biden may have spent eight years in an administration that doted on the tech industry, but that long honeymoon, punctuated by four years of Trump, looks to be over.Tech is on notic
The latest tech hearing was a study in contrasts. Contrasts between lawmakers who made an effort to stay on topic in a hearing ostensibly about social media and the 2020 election and those who…
After giving in to the looming threat of subpoenas, two of tech’s most high profile CEOs will again be grilled by Congress.On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will host Twitter’s J
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Ray Holgado, a former employee of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, recently filed a racial discrimination complaint with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. Holgado, who is Black
With just days to go before the U.S. election, Facebook quietly suspended one of its most worrisome features.During Wednesday’s Senate hearing Senator Ed Markey asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbe
WhatsApp, the popular instant messaging app owned by Facebook, is now delivering roughly 100 billion messages a day, company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said at the quarterly earnings call Thu
The move comes after unproven Republican criticism of social media for perceived anti-conservative bias.
Today’s Senate hearing on immensely important legal protections for online platforms quickly proved to be little more than an excuse for Senators to accuse the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Goog
US senators will question the chief executives of the largest social media companies about bias - days ahead of the election.
Less than a week before Election Day, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are set to be grilled by Republican senators making unfounded allegations that the tech g
Three of tech’s most prominent CEOs tomorrow will face the Senate Commerce Committee during a virtual hearing tomorrow and their opening statements are beginning to trickle out.The hearing, sche
Shortly after voting to move forward with a pair of subpoenas, the Senate Judiciary Committee has reached an agreement that will see the CEOs of two major social platforms testify voluntarily in Novem