Musk’s showmanship on Twitter raises concerns of corporate governance

While Musk’s last Tuesday’s tweets must have given a series of palpitations to those who were betting against Tesla’s stock, while many investors believed it to be a prank which is in line with the Tesla brand, SEC lawyers aren’t amused since these could potentially trigger non-compliance of disclosures. Elon Musk’s proposal to take Tesla…

Silicon Valley proposes a more pragmatic approach to suitably modify China’s trade policies

Although tech companies are on the same page as the Trump Administration on it’s findings on the Section 301 investigation, it is of the view that the current strategy is not sustainable and results could be better achieved through an international coalition that challenges China at the World Trade Organization. On Monday, a trade group…

Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft confirm Russian involvement in 2016 U.S Presidential election campaign

U.S. investigators are gradually piecing together how the Kremlin orchestrated its disinformation campaign using U.S. platforms to influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign. As per a person briefed on Google’s probe on Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. elections, Google has discovered that Russian agents had spent tens of thousands of dollars on ads on…

U.S. citizens are losing the battle for privacy, states brief filed by U.S. tech companies

The brief urges the U.S. Supreme Court to side with the digital rights of citizens against intrusive governments breaches of privacy. More than a dozen technology companies along with Verizon Communications Inc, the biggest wireless operator in the U.S., have called on the U.S. Supreme Court to formulate rules that will make it harder for…

Silicon Valley giants chip in to minimize the availability of extremist content online

The efforts of Facebook, Google and Twitter in removing violent jihadist content from online repositories which had acted as breeding ground, have yielded significant results. In efforts aimed at containing the growing threats of extremism in the UK, Facebook has launched a program in the country through which it will train and fund local organisations…

Yuri Milner, founder of DST Global, sees global consumer doubling by 2025

In the process, Milner expects the boom to create internet companies worth at least $4 trillion.   On Friday, billionaire investor Yuri Milner, founder of venture capital giant DST Global disclosed that the surge in global online consumer spending is likely to create new internet companies worth almost $4 trillion. Milner, who made the comments…