Big Tech Meta January 7, 2025 Meta fights for Trump influence with UFC board election Meta Platforms named three new directors to its board, continuing its leadership overhaul ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. By Amiya Johar
AI & Cloud Big Tech Microsoft January 6, 2025 Microsoft to spend $80B on AI data centres in fiscal 2025 Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith revealed the company was on track to spend approximately $80 billion to build out AI-enabled data centres in its current financial year (to end-June), with more than half of that investment earmarked for the US. By Mike Robuck
Big Tech Meta January 3, 2025 Meta shakes-up leadership ahead of Trump arrival Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta Platforms is leaving the company after seven years, to be replaced by current VP of global public policy and known Republican, Joel Kaplan. By Kavit Majithia
Big Tech Europe Meta Regulation December 18, 2024 Meta hit with €251M data breach fine The Republic of Ireland’s Data Protection Commission fined Meta Platform Ireland €251 million following two inquiries into a data breach that impacted approximately 29 million global Facebook accounts. By Mike Robuck
Big Tech Google Meta Microsoft North America December 16, 2024 Analysis: Why Big Tech titans are lining up to support Trump CEOs from some of the biggest tech companies in the US have publicly shown their support for incoming President Donald Trump, which has included large donations for his inaugural ceremony by Jeff Bezos-owned Amazon and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms. By Mike Robuck
Big Tech Microsoft Network Tech December 11, 2024 Microsoft sells Metaswitch to Alianza Cloud player Alianza struck a deal to buy software company Metaswitch from Microsoft for an undisclosed sum, a move the purchaser positioned as bolstering its offering for communications service providers. By Chris Donkin
Big Tech Google December 10, 2024 Google Willow quantum chip slashes compute time Google hailed key milestones in its development of quantum technology, with its latest chip Willow performing a compute function in a fraction of the time a traditional machine would take and delivering an exponential reduction in errors. By Michael Carroll
