COMPANIES

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Thursday proposed a 25% tax credit for investments in semiconductor manufacturing as Congress works to increase U.S. chip production.

Democrats in the House of Representatives are reportedly getting ready to unleash a legislative assault on the country’s largest tech companies.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google agreed to pay French regulators a fine of nearly $270 million, settling one of the first antitrust cases globally that allege the tech company abused its leading role in the digital advertising sector.

U.S. tech giants could benefit from the agreement of the Group of Seven rich countries' agreement to create a global minimum 15% corporate tax rate if the final deal also scraps increasingly popular digital services taxes, according to industry lobbyists.

Apple Inc, facing accusations from rivals that it has too much control over its App Store, on Monday outlined plans to increase user privacy and keep consumer data out of other companies' hands, laying out features including expanded video conferencing and storing virtual government IDs on iPhones.

Users searching on Microsoft-created search engine Bing for an image of the “Tank Man” from the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 are finding no results generating concerns about censorship.

Republican politicians and activists are slamming "woke" business leaders who've become more inclined to make domestic political statements in recent years yet still do business with China, which is ruled by the brutal Chinese Communist Party.

Intel Corp.’s CEO reiterated on Monday that the global shortage of semiconductors could take a few years to resolve.

An ongoing lawsuit against Google by Arizona, which alleges that the tech behemoth would continue to collect location information even when users had turned tracking off, has revealed that some of Google’s own employees had concerns about the practice.

Twitter is rolling out a new verification application process to the public Thursday, saying the company is seeking to give "more transparency, credibility and clarity" to the process of who gets verified on the platform.

Users on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok are highlighting instances of post removals and other forms of censorship after sharing content related to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

The voice behind Amazon's cloud-based artificial intelligence service “Alexa” may have just been identified.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos does not allow PowerPoint presentations during company meetings, according to a new book about the company.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk had “friendly” meetings discussing space exploration before a rivalry formed.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos told Jeff Carney, the company's senior vice president of Global Corporate Affairs in a 2015 email that then-presidential candidate Donald Trump “would be a scary prez."

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos asked a prototype of the tech giant's Alexa smart-home products to "play videos that ridiculed" then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016.

A bipartisan group of more than three dozen state attorneys general is urging Facebook to halt its plans to launch a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13, citing concerns about the safety and well-being of children and the “harm” social media poses to young people.

Netflix has announced that it will not work with the group that awards the Golden Globes until further measures are taken

Facebook's Oversight Board on Wednesday upheld former President Donald Trump's ban from Facebook and Instagram, but said it was "not appropriate" for Facebook to impose the "indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension."

Bill and Melinda Gates reportedly have no prenup in place after their 27-year marriage.