Largest Tech Companies

The 5G network rollout in India has been remarkable and the country is among the top three nations with the largest 5G installed base in the world, a top Nokia official said on Thursday. Nokia President and CEO Pekka Lundmark was addressing an event during the inauguration of the company's 6G research lab in Bengaluru.

More than a dozen of the world's biggest tech companies face unprecedented legal scrutiny, as the European Union's sweeping Digital Services Act (DSA) imposes new rules on content moderation, user privacy and transparency this month.

Tech giant Apple set a June quarter revenue record in India, driven by robust sales of the iPhone, with CEO Tim Cook saying the company is "pleased" with growth in the world's second-largest smartphone market.

US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design centre in the tech hub of Bengaluru.

Gannett, the largest US newspaper chain, on Tuesday sued Google, accusing the social media company of violating federal antitrust law by trying to monopolize the market for online advertising.

After announcing the largest rounds of layoffs in their history, US big tech companies are now learning how difficult it is to reduce headcount in Europe.

Facebook-owner Meta published an artificial intelligence model on Wednesday that can pick out individual objects from within an image, along with a dataset of image annotations that it said was the largest ever of its kind. The company's research division said in a blog post that its Segment Anything Model, or SAM, could identify objects in images ...

Tencent Holdings on Thursday said it would restrict its focus to its core business, while maintinaing cost-cutting and improving efficiencies, as it reported its first drop in annual revenue to date. The world's largest video game company and operator of the WeChat messaging platform posted revenue of CNY 554.55 billion (nearly Rs. 6,65,600 crore) ...

Foxconn has ended a month's long "closed loop" at its biggest iPhone assembly plant in central China. The decision of the Taiwanese tech firm comes after the country loosened its stringent COVID-19 regulations. The company's facility in central Zhengzhou was in effective lockdown for 56 days after cases were detected in October.

Spending and hiring cuts among information technology and IT enabled service companies have halved revenue from the sector for one of India's largest recruiters, Quess Corp.

Foxconn unveiled two prototypes of its electric vehicles, a Model B sporty crossover hatchback and the Model V, an all-terrain pickup. The company said on Tuesday that it wanted its customers to sell electric vehicles (EVs) in large numbers. The world's largest contract electronics maker's production takes place in Taiwan, Thailand, and the US, and...

Global supply chains of vital semiconductors would be secure if Taiwan remains safe, Taiwanese Minister for Economic Affairs Wang Mei-Hua said on Tuesday, during a trip to the US. The minister is in the US to respond to "concerns" about supply chains and geopolitical issues and to visit US tech firms that are major customers of Taiwanese semiconduc...

Samsung Electronics will invest over 7 trillion won ($5.02 billion) by 2030 as part of sweeping environmental initiatives aimed at making the company carbon neutral by 2050, the world's largest chip and mobile maker said on Thursday.

For the first time in history, China’s two largest technology companies posted a decline in revenue as the nation faces unprecedented growth hurdles and an uncertain outlook. But 2,000 miles away, even bigger challenges await one of Southeast Asia’s biggest companies.

After five years of negotiations involving the government, tech companies and civil society activists, the world's largest democracy is sending its debate on privacy back to the drawing board.

The 5G network rollout in India has been remarkable and the country is among the top three nations with the largest 5G installed base in the world, a top Nokia official said on Thursday. Nokia President and CEO Pekka Lundmark was addressing an event during the inauguration of the company's 6G research lab in Bengaluru.

More than a dozen of the world's biggest tech companies face unprecedented legal scrutiny, as the European Union's sweeping Digital Services Act (DSA) imposes new rules on content moderation, user privacy and transparency this month.

Tech giant Apple set a June quarter revenue record in India, driven by robust sales of the iPhone, with CEO Tim Cook saying the company is "pleased" with growth in the world's second-largest smartphone market.

US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design centre in the tech hub of Bengaluru.

Gannett, the largest US newspaper chain, on Tuesday sued Google, accusing the social media company of violating federal antitrust law by trying to monopolize the market for online advertising.

After announcing the largest rounds of layoffs in their history, US big tech companies are now learning how difficult it is to reduce headcount in Europe.

Facebook-owner Meta published an artificial intelligence model on Wednesday that can pick out individual objects from within an image, along with a dataset of image annotations that it said was the largest ever of its kind. The company's research division said in a blog post that its Segment Anything Model, or SAM, could identify objects in images ...

Tencent Holdings on Thursday said it would restrict its focus to its core business, while maintinaing cost-cutting and improving efficiencies, as it reported its first drop in annual revenue to date. The world's largest video game company and operator of the WeChat messaging platform posted revenue of CNY 554.55 billion (nearly Rs. 6,65,600 crore) ...

Foxconn has ended a month's long "closed loop" at its biggest iPhone assembly plant in central China. The decision of the Taiwanese tech firm comes after the country loosened its stringent COVID-19 regulations. The company's facility in central Zhengzhou was in effective lockdown for 56 days after cases were detected in October.

Spending and hiring cuts among information technology and IT enabled service companies have halved revenue from the sector for one of India's largest recruiters, Quess Corp.

Foxconn unveiled two prototypes of its electric vehicles, a Model B sporty crossover hatchback and the Model V, an all-terrain pickup. The company said on Tuesday that it wanted its customers to sell electric vehicles (EVs) in large numbers. The world's largest contract electronics maker's production takes place in Taiwan, Thailand, and the US, and...

Global supply chains of vital semiconductors would be secure if Taiwan remains safe, Taiwanese Minister for Economic Affairs Wang Mei-Hua said on Tuesday, during a trip to the US. The minister is in the US to respond to "concerns" about supply chains and geopolitical issues and to visit US tech firms that are major customers of Taiwanese semiconduc...

Samsung Electronics will invest over 7 trillion won ($5.02 billion) by 2030 as part of sweeping environmental initiatives aimed at making the company carbon neutral by 2050, the world's largest chip and mobile maker said on Thursday.

For the first time in history, China’s two largest technology companies posted a decline in revenue as the nation faces unprecedented growth hurdles and an uncertain outlook. But 2,000 miles away, even bigger challenges await one of Southeast Asia’s biggest companies.

After five years of negotiations involving the government, tech companies and civil society activists, the world's largest democracy is sending its debate on privacy back to the drawing board.