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BIG TECH

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detain a man after conducting a raid at an apartment complex in Denver, Colorado, in February.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2025
Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration
The apps alert users to ICE agents in their area, but the U.S. Justice Department says the apps could increase the risk of assault on agents.
According to Meta's rules, advertisers who seek to run political ads in the United States have to undergo a special authorization process.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 2, 2025
Deepfake political scam ads surge on Meta platforms, watchdog says
The ads have reached tens of thousands of the platforms' users.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends a private dinner for technology and business leaders hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Sept. 4.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Oct 1, 2025
Trump and America’s tech giants: Coexistence or collaboration?
The impact of Trump’s policies on online platforms is also significant. During his first term, Big Tech faced intense antitrust pressure.
Rioters supporting U.S. President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. YouTube agreed to pay a $24.5 million settlement to Trump and others who were banned by the video streaming platform in the wake of the riots, according to a legal document filed on Monday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 30, 2025
Google to pay $24.5 million to end Trump suit over Jan. 6 ban
The court filing states $22 million will go toward the construction of a new ballroom in the White House, a project near and dear to Trump.
Oracle is among some of the firms expected to thrive in an artificial intelligence future.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 29, 2025
Magnificent Seven is passe, but what can take its place?
Wall Street’s most powerful collection of stocks is missing some of the firms that are also expected to thrive in an artificial intelligence future.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos once said he wanted to make Prime so compelling that consumers would feel they are "being irresponsible" if they are not members.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 26, 2025
Amazon to pay $2.5 billion for allegedly duping millions to sign up for Prime
Around 35 million Prime customers will be eligible for payout from a $1.5 billion fund, the Federal Trade Commission said.
The Apple logo at the firm's store in Paris on April 23
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 25, 2025
Apple blames EU tech law for postponed features and app marketplace risks
The Digital Markets Act, which came into force last year, requires large tech firms to open up their platforms to competitors.
Suspected Chinese hackers can dwell undiscovered in a victims’ networks for more than a year while stealing information, researchers say.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 25, 2025
‘Most prevalent’ Chinese hacking group seen targeting tech and law firms
The attackers are described as incredibly advanced and stealthy, dwelling undiscovered in their victims’ networks for an average of more than a year while stealing information.
Google could be forced to sell a part of its online advertising business as antitrust enforcers bring their latest case against the tech giant.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 23, 2025
Google seeks to avoid ad tech breakup as antitrust trial begins
The case comes after regulators recently failed in a separate bid to make Google sell its Chrome browser earlier this month.
Australia’s plan to ban under-16s from using social media, including YouTube, has reignited debate over how best to protect kids online.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 14, 2025
Banning teens from YouTube won’t keep them safe
Part of the reason YouTube’s inclusion has struck such a nerve is because it’s impossible to overstate how intertwined it has become with pop culture.
The iPhone Air may be what Apple fans have wanted for years: a device distinct from competitors and packed with feats of hardware engineering.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 11, 2025
Slim iPhone Air may be a design win for Apple, despite analysts' AI doubts
The new handset is the company's slimmest yet, and the biggest change to its lineup in eight years.
Google has said that its AI Mode will soon be available in Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Indonesian and Brazilian Portuguese globally.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 9, 2025
Google’s AI Mode to offer Japanese language support
Along with Japanese, Google said it will also gradually be offered in Korean, Hindi, Indonesian and Brazilian Portuguese globally starting Tuesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a warning via social media after the EU announced it was fining Google almost €3 billion ($3.5 billion) and ordering the search giant to stop favoring its own advertising technology services.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 6, 2025
Trump threatens trade actions after EU fines Google over ads
The EU announced that it was fining Google almost €3 billion ($3.5 billion) and ordering it stop favoring its own advertising technology services.
A woman uses her phone at Bashantapur Durbar Square, in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Thursday after the Nepali government announced it will block access to all unregistered social media platforms.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 5, 2025
Nepal to block some social media platforms, including Facebook
The move came after the companies failed to register with authorities in a crackdown on misuse.
Tables and chairs in the White House Rose Garden in Washington on Wednesday. U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, are hosting an artificial intelligence event for tech CEOs on Thursday at the newly renovated garden.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 4, 2025
Trump to host Big Tech CEOs in White House's redone rose garden
The U.S. president recently had stone pavers installed in the garden after complaining that the existing grass was unsuitable for hosting large events.
Tech and social media giant Meta has enticed artificial intelligence talent from other companies, including Apple, with staggering pay increases.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 3, 2025
Apple’s lead AI researcher for robotics heads to Meta as part of latest exits
The Apple Foundation Models team, which the company launched last year as part of its bid to catch up in AI, has lost roughly 10 members in recent weeks.
Icons for the Google Chrome and Safari apps on a laptop in Riga, Latvia, on Aug. 13. In a win for Google, Tuesday's federal court ruling didn't bar the company from making payments to third parties including Apple for default browser placement in browsers or on mobile devices.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 3, 2025
Google can keep Chrome and keep paying to be default search, federal court rules
Landmark ruling allows Google to avoid one of the most severe remedy requests from the U.S. government after the court found it had an illegal monopoly in the search market.
Elon Musk (left) in Los Angeles in 2024 and Open AI CEO Sam Altman in Seoul in February. Elon Musk's companies xAI and X filed a sweeping U.S. antitrust lawsuit on Monday against Apple and OpenAI, alleging the tech giants formed an illegal partnership to stifle competition in artificial intelligence and smartphone markets.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 26, 2025
Musk sues Apple and OpenAI, saying they hurt AI competition
Musk is alleging the tech giants formed an illegal partnership to inhibit rivalry and innovation in artificial intelligence and smartphone markets.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks next to U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Terry Cole, Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), during the signing of executive orders by U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Monday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 26, 2025
U.S. weighing sanctions on EU officials implementing Digital Services Act
The law aims to make the online environment safer, in part by compelling tech giants to tackle illegal content such as hate speech and child sexual abuse material.
An Apple store in London in 2024. The iPhone-maker withdrew its Advanced Data Protection feature for U.K. users in February following an order from the British government to create a backdoor to encrypted user data.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 19, 2025
U.S. spy chief Gabbard says U.K. will drop data 'backdoor' order for Apple
The iPhone-maker withdrew its Advanced Data Protection feature for U.K. users after the order from the British government to create a backdoor to encrypted user data.
How Takaichi won the LDP’s leadership race
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, poses in the party leader's office after the LDP leadership election in Tokyo on Saturday.
Asahi ships beer using paper and fax after ransomware attack
Drinks produced by Asahi at a liquor store in Tokyo. Retailers in Japan are warning customers of possible Asahi Super Dry beer shortages after a cyberattack paralyzed production and distribution at the major brewer.
Retro-wrapped trains mark 100th anniversary of Tokyo's Yamanote Line
Trains decorated to resemble the 103 (left) and 205 series of trains that formerly ran on the Yamanote Line, in Tokyo on Saturday.
Den-en-toshi Line trains collide, halting service
A not-in-service train is seen derailed early Monday morning after colliding with a passenger train late Sunday at Kajigaya Station on Tokyu Railways' Den-en-toshi Line in Kawasaki.
North Korea says 'special assets' deployed against South
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the Defense Development 2025 military exhibition event ahead of the 80th founding anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang in this picture released Sunday.
Takaichi, the LDP’s first female president, is far from an ‘overnight success’
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party chief Sanae Takaichi greets her fellow LDP members on Saturday at party headquarters.
How a family-run landscaper turned the Osaka Expo green
The team at Ryokukou Garden consists primarily of a single family, including Toshiki Tanisaki (second from right), who led the company's efforts at the Osaka Expo, Chikako Tanisaki (fifth from right), who performs daily maintanence at the expo, and Takeshi Tanisaki (fourth from right), who added a nursery to the family farm more than 50 years ago.
Eat your balloons: The culinary theater of Grant Achatz comes to Tokyo
Avant-garde chef Grant Achatz and his team from Alinea are in Tokyo for a three-week residency.
Japan’s first foreign wine investor plants its roots in Hokkaido
Intrigued by Japanese wines, Burgundy winemaker Etienne de Montille decided to explore Hokkaido's wine scene, eventually setting up his outpost in Hakodate in 2017.
Tea ceremony experts see matcha boom as a big opportunity
Atsuko Mori, founder and director of Kyoto-based tea salon Camellia Tea Ceremony, prepares matcha during a tea ceremony in Kyoto.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

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Is living in central Tokyo still affordable?
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