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Mark Zuckerberg joins centibillionaire club after launch of TikTok rival

The 36-year-old joins fellow tech titans Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates as the only people in the world who currently have centibillionaire status, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index

Facebook to Amazon: What years of emails and texts reveal about tech firms

Big Tech companies insist that their rise to power has been the first story, a saga of ingenuity and courage, and that their market dominance is a byproduct of excellence

Over 1,000 companies boycotted Facebook. Did it work?

Major advertisers cut spending by millions of dollars in July, but not enough to significantly damage the platform's revenue

Tech giants defy economic downturns, report a combined profit of $28 bn

Though the tech industry's four biggest companies were stung by a slowdown in spending, they reported a combined profit of $28 billion

Huge opportunity in India to buy and sell through WhatsApp: Zuckerberg

Facebook wants to use the Jio deal to get thousands of small businesses on-boarded onto WhatsApp to do commerce in India

Facebook beats Q2 estimates with 11% growth in revenue despite coronavirus

Ad sales, which contribute nearly all of Facebook's revenue, rose 10% to $18.3 billion in the Q2 as people under lockdown spent more time online

Antitrust hearing: Facebook's acquisition of Instagram under scrutiny

The emails were acquired by the House Judiciary Committee as part of its antitrust investigation

Antitrust hearing: Zuckerberg goes off-script, hits out at Apple, Google

Zuckerberg isn't hesitating to use some sharp elbows, pointing out that Amazon is the fastest-growing advertising platform and Google is the biggest

United in their ire, US lawmakers lash out at big tech cos leaders

For more than five hours, the 15 members of an antitrust panel in the House lobbed questions and repeatedly interrupted and talked over Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg bought Instagram as it was a 'threat' to Facebook

Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012, a shocking sum at that time for a company with 13 employees

US lawmakers skewer Zuckerberg with Facebook emails, allege monopoly

Democrat Representative notes that a 2014 email showed Facebook's CFO referring to the company's acquisition strategy as 'land grab'

How to fight against big tech's power, break out of the stranglehold

Expect the tech titans to be grilled over whether their companies have become so powerful and far-reaching that they harm rivals and all of us, too

Top headlines: Google Tax stumps foreign firms, Unlock 3 ends night curfew

From Maruti posting first quarterly loss in 17 years, VIral Acharya on larger role of foreign banks to govt approving new education policy, here are the top news of the day

'They have too much power': US lawmakers grill Big Tech as Trump weighs in

Much-anticipated congressional hearing featuring the CEOs of four of America's largest tech firms kicks off.

Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk made $115 billion this year

Their fast-growing wealth provides a breathtaking measure of their companies' economic might

In prepared remarks, big tech CEOs defend themselves ahead of US testimony

Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai to be grilled over the dominance in their fields of e-retail, smartphone software, social media and search.

FB starts labelling Trump, Biden posts on voting as election inches closer

The social network flagged a Trump post that claimed current rules on postal votes could lead to a "corrupt" election, reports the BBC

Jeff Bezos adds record $13 billion in single day to his fortune

Amazon.com. shares surged 7.9 per cent, the most since December 2018 on rising optimism about web shopping trends, and are now up 73 per cent this year.

Facebook to launch dedicated section to debunk coronavirus myths

To help keep everyone safe and informed, the company is putting alerts at the top of the Facebook app and Instagram to remind people to wear masks

Google vs Facebook: India is set to be their next big battleground

Both the companies are looking at partnerships to expand their India business