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Timothy Rooks
Big Data Centers are Power-hungry, But Increasingly Efficient
25 Jan 2022
Data centers that support businesses, internet services and our social media lives use lots of energy. As their numbers grow there is pressure to make them more energy-efficient and reduce their…
Newsclick Team
Bill Gates' Stand on Intellectual Property Is Facing a Pushback
06 May 2021
Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha and journalist Alexander Zaitchik discuss Bill Gates' recent comments on intellectual property rights in the context of COVID-19 vaccines.
Shinzani Jain
US Congressional Hearings on Digital Platform Monopolies
07 Nov 2020
United States House Antitrust Subcommittee’s investigations of Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook reveal that the digital economy is highly concentrated, suggests strengthening of anti-trust laws and…
The Associated Press
Oracle Wins TikTok Over Microsoft to Keep Running in US: Sources
14 Sep 2020
Oracle's top brass is seen as close to Donald Trump, who threatened to ban TikTok over alleged spying concerns. The Chinese video sharing App reportedly has 100 million users in the US.
PTI
Trump Signs Executive Orders, Bans Popular Chinese Apps TikTok, Wechat
07 Aug 2020
India has banned 106 Chinese apps, a move welcomed by both the Trump administration and US lawmakers.
Subhash Rai
TikTok: Trump Helps Microsoft in Discount Shopping
05 Aug 2020
The substantive point in this whole saga is the the arm twisting of a non-American company into selling itself to an American company.
PTI
17 US States, DC File Lawsuit Against Trump Admin’s New Visa Policy for Global Students
14 Jul 2020
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, other tech companies join Harvard, MIT lawsuit against ICE policy.
PTI
CAA: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Hopes Immigrants Will Lead MNCs in India
14 Jan 2020
I think it's just bad...If anything, I would love to see a Bangladeshi immigrant who comes to India and creates the next unicorn in India, or becomes the CEO of Infosys, Nadella tells BuzzFeed.
Newsclick Team
50 Years of Internet and Monopoly of Big Players
31 Oct 2019
The internet has just completed its 50 years. NewsClick Editor-in-chief Prabir Purkaystha speaks about the invention and the brief unknown history of the internet.
Prabir Purkayastha
Global Capital, Digital Monopolies and New Forms of Enclosure
15 Jun 2019
The sharing economy is the enclosure of personal property by digital monopolies and creating a new form of casual labour.