L’OCDE conclut sur un impôt minimal mondial, mettant fin à quarante ans de dérégulation. Rendu possible par le revirement américain, l’accord est favorable aux Big Tech, même s’ils devront payer plus d’impôts.
A small search engine company in the Czech Republic helped inspire a law that is poised to put major limits on tech giants like Google.
The ongoing rivalry between small tech companies and the industry behemoths they rely on expanded Tuesday when over forty companies signed an open letter of support for The American Innovation and Choice Online Act. While some of the companies that signed have fought what they see as anti-competitive practices for years, others, like Y Combinator, are entering the fray for the first time.
Growing tensions between Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Apple lie behind the death of the Internet Association (IA), the nine-year-old lobby group that was Big Tech’s voice in Washington, according to insiders and industry observers.
Big Tech got bigger-er and stronger in 2021. The empires of technology also appeared more vulnerable than ever to the forces of regulation, competition, a complicated public mood and perhaps hubris.