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Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones, left, and Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland attend a press conference in Sydney, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australia plans to tax digital platforms that don’t pay for news

Associated Press

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Letter to the editor: Social media harming youth

FILE - A JetBlue plane lands at Logan International Airport, Jan. 26, 2023, in Boston. JetBlue reports earnings on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Wall Street mostly higher on earnings ahead of Federal Reserve meeting

By Yuri Kageyama and Matt Ott - Associated Press

An entrance to the New York Stock Exchange is shown on June 26, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)

Stock market today: Wall Street gains ground following its sell-off as tech, smaller stocks rise up

By Stan Choe - Associated Press

Social media applications are displayed on an iPhone, March 13, 2019, in New York. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, April 9, 2024, two tribal nations accused social media companies — including Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta Platforms; Snapchat's Snap Inc.; TikTok parent company ByteDance; and Alphabet, which owns YouTube and Google — of contributing to the disproportionately high rates of suicide among Native American youth. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Two tribal nations sue social media companies over Native youth suicides

Associated Press

A sign stands over a Wendy's restaurant, Feb. 25, 2021, in Des Moines, Iowa. Wendy’s says that it has no plans to increase prices during the busiest times at its restaurants, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. The burger chain clarified its stance on how it will approach pricing after various media reports said that the company was looking to test having the prices of its menu items fluctuate throughout the day based on demand. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Wendy’s delivering food by drone for first time

By Staff - The Washington Times

A group of young people with mobile phones on the street. (File photo credit: carballo via Shutterstock)

Research finds more teens turning to social media, not parents, for life lessons

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Members of Parliament and reporters listen as Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge speaks about a deal with Google, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in the Foyer of the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario. Pascale St-Onge said that Google will contribute $100 million Canadian (US$74 million) — indexed to inflation — in financial support annually for a wide range of news businesses across the country. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada says Google will pay $74 million annually to Canadian news industry under new online law

By Rob Gillies - Associated Press

Evacuees from Yellowknife, territorial capital of the Northwest Territories, queue up to get gas at Big River Service in Ft. Providence, N.W.T., Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. (Bill Braden /The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada wildfire evacuees can’t get news media on Facebook and Instagram. Some find workarounds

By Matt O'Brien - Associated Press

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints headquarters office building in Salt Lake City. The church's investment arm, Ensign Peak Advisors, is reported to be under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. (Mark A. Kellner/The Washington Times) ** FILE **

Mormon church, investment arm to pay $5 million SEC fine over reporting issues

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., listens during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the CARES Act on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Nearly 1 in 5 lawmakers own tech stocks targeted by antitrust bill, analysis shows

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, file photo, John Krafcik, CEO of Waymo, the autonomous vehicle company created by Google's parent company, Alphabet speaks at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The executive who steered the transformation of Google’s self-driving car project into a separate company worth billions of dollars is stepping down after more than five years on the job. Krafcik announced his departure as CEO of Waymo, a company spun out from Google, in a Friday, April 2, 2021, blog post that cited his desire to enjoy life as the world emerges from the pandemic. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

CEO of Google’s self-driving car spinoff steps down from job

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

This Oct. 20, 2015, file photo, shows signage outside Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Google workers form new labor union, a tech industry rarity

By Matt O'Brien - Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo, a woman walks below a Google sign on the campus in Mountain View, Calif. Google is in the crosshairs of U.S. antitrust regulators who accuse it of wrongdoing similar to charges Microsoft faced 22 years ago, when Google was starting out in a Silicon Valley garage. How Google grew from its idealistic roots into what regulators describe as a cutthroat behemoth is a story shaped by unbridled ambition, savvy decision making, technology’s networking effects, lax regulatory oversight and the pressure to pump up profits. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

How Google evolved from ‘cuddly’ startup to antitrust target

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

This March 20, 2018 file photo shows the YouTube app on an iPad in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

YouTube looks to limit election interference by banning videos containing hacked information

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - This March 19, 2018 photo shows the Google app on an iPad in Baltimore. Big Tech companies reported mixed quarterly earnings on Thursday, July 30, 2020, a day after their top executives faced a tough congressional grilling over their market power and alleged monopolistic practices. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Amid the pandemic, Big Tech reports mixed earnings

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, MATT O'BRIEN and JOSEPH PISANI and TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

Google affiliate scraps plan for Toronto smart city project

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2019, file photo an Uber office is seen in Secaucus, N.J. Uber lost $2.9 billion in the first quarter as its overseas investments were hammered by the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Uber loses $2.9 billion, offloads bike and scooter business

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ - Associated Press

Google’s growth slows as pandemic infests advertising market

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press