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$1tn is just the start: why tech giants could double their market valuations

As Alphabet becomes the latest firm to achieve a 13-figure market cap, analysts still forecast years of growth ahead

France’s digital minister says tax on big tech is just the start

Cédric O says French will not back down on levy despite US threats of trade war

Why we need to blow a Raspberry at big tech…

The Raspberry Pi has notched up 30m sales – fulfilling the promise of user-controlled programming and inspiring children

Too big to fail? Tech’s decade of scale and impunity

Big tech behaves as though power absolves them of responsibility. Have we learned nothing since the financial crash?

Rebecca Solnit: Why I’m supporting the Guardian this Giving Tuesday

How the news is reported shapes the news, and the Guardian’s fierce candor about corruption, destruction and brutality matters

There’s only one way to take on big tech: by reining in big money and big state

The Warren-style critique of big tech accepts that smaller tech is on the horizon – and rests on a powerful myth of domestic politics gone wrong

Computer firm HP rejects takeover approach by Xerox

Board declines unsolicited proposal, despite billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s support

SoftBank boss takes blame for £5bn loss after WeWork punt

Masayoshi Son ‘reflecting deeply’ after Japanese tech investor’s first quarterly loss in 14 years

Neumann has escaped the WeWork debacle. But Softbank may not

The tech fund is in a high-risk business and has enjoyed many successes. But its very credibility is now at stake

UK cybersecurity firm Sophos agrees £3.1bn takeover

US private equity group Thoma Bravo to buy Abingdon-based company, which has 3,400 staff

Tech firms still seeking venture capital in UK despite high-profile flops

Marriage market for entrepreneurs and investors could be sign of a flourishing sector – or suggest bubble about to burst

Boris Johnson: ‘No interest to declare’ in Arcuri firm

Asked about relationship with US businesswoman, PM said he had behaved with ‘full propriety’

Floating or falling? Tech companies that made stock market debuts in 2019

As WeWork woos investors, this year’s technology sector IPOs have mostly been a disappointment – with one exception

Margrethe Vestager gets second term in EU competition job

Dane has won renown for taking on tech firms, upsetting Donald Trump in the process

Huawei’s next flagship phone blocked from using Google apps

US trade ban means Mate 30 will be launched without Google Maps and YouTube

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  • Elon Musk and co may relish march of the robots but there must be AI boundaries in the workplace
  • ‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion
  • X accused of giving racists ‘impunity’ after refusing to bar N- and P-word posts
  • NHS staff battling wave of food supplement disinformation
  • ‘I should know better’: tech expert lost £70,000 in one simple phone call
  • Make platforms that promote violent content pay towards riot costs, Streeting says
  • UK government announces £132.5m after-school clubs package
  • Pioneering UK Nerve Lab harnesses AI to map effect of children’s screen time
  • ‘Loneliness influencers’ are racking up views. After a breakup, I see the appeal
  • ‘Why would you put a toxic product into the hands of a young child?’: director turned activist Beeban Kidron on why big tech needs its ‘tobacco moment’
  • ‘A movie for everyone, not just Drag Race fans’: stars of drag comedy Stop! That! Train! on making the summer’s funniest film
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  • UK parents support an under-16 social media ban – but what do their children think?
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  • The right has created a false reality – fuelled by toxic images delivered straight to your phone
  • Palantir loses legal challenge to force Swiss magazine to publish responses
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  • Elon Musk becomes world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX ends trading day with valuation of $2.1tn – as it happened
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  • Derbyshire police officer investigated over AI-generated ‘evidential material’
  • The SpaceX IPO made Musk a trillionaire. The old rules of capitalism no longer apply
  • UK to ban under-16s from ‘high risk’ social media apps
  • David Hockney, pioneering British artist famed for his pools and portraits, dies aged 88
  • What World Cup? US celebrities get their fashion kicks from the Knicks
  • More of the Christchurch shooter’s online comments have been uncovered, New Zealand researchers say. Does it change the picture?
  • Online racism is significantly affecting mental health, First Nations people say: ‘It’s like carrying a bully in your pocket’
  • ‘I only had this father, and he’s gone’: Wafa Mustafa’s fight for truth and justice for Syria’s missing
  • Obsessed with Obsession: how a low-budget horror changed the game in Hollywood
  • France accuses Israeli firm of interfering in Scottish elections and targeting SNP

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