Google CIO Ruth Porat said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the tech giant is ready to get to work with the returning president.
I’ll be the first to acknowledge the counter arguments. There are areas where the Trump presidency is bound to slow things down. Companies will be less likely to invest in nascent sectors that rely on supportive government dollars or policy, meaning that technologies like hydrogen and biofuels may take a hit.
A day-long event filled with MIT speakers, including Sally Kornbluth and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, touched on AI sustainability and US-China competition.
In a Davos roundtable discussion with BI, Nicola Mendelsohn, head of Meta's global business group, said the company had been speaking with advertisers in recent days and trying to reassure them that nothing will change. Mendelsohn said advertisers would still be able to stop ads appearing next to political content if they wish.
Has the merry-go-round of the global elite summit – epitomised by the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, which concluded this weekend – had its day? As I saw at Davos when I was editor of
Now, as Trump returns to the White House thanks, partially, to money from Silicon Valley, it stands to reason that the big tech platforms currently suffering from European regulatory scrutiny would want it to end. As tech CEOs line up to schmooze with the president, this is surely what companies like Apple, Meta, and Amazon were hoping for.
As business titans and world leaders gathered Monday in Davos, Switzerland, for the opening of the annual World Economic Forum, all eyes were on President Donald Trump ’s taking power again in Washington.
The UK’s competition watchdog is to investigate the mobile ecosystems of Apple and Google under new digital market rules that could see pro-competition interventions placed upon them.
The global elite know Donald Trump better than almost anyone after his first presidency shocked boardrooms and foreign capitals.
Officials and business executives at the annual gathering in Switzerland said the fight against global climate change would continue with or without the United States.
The Motwani Jadeja Foundation (MJF) proudly hosted a delegation of 10 Indian leaders at Davos, Switzerland during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025. For the first time, these leaders had the unique opportunity to participate in one of the world's most prestigious platforms for networking and collaboration.
Donald Trump called the EU's regulation on U.S. tech companies, like Meta, Google and Apple, to be "a form of taxation."