Big tech facing a break-up?
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The leaders of Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon are grilled by US lawmakers over abuse of market power. Is more regulation or a break-up of their firms on the cards? Plus, Garmin is the latest high-profile victim of a cyberattack. And we meet the woman responsible for Google’s undersea cables. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC North America tech reporter James Clayton. Produced by Jat Gill.
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
| 0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. |
| 0:21.9 | The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
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| 0:39.7 | Hello and welcome to TechTent. Hello and welcome to TechTent, your weekly essential guide to the hottest news and trends in |
| 0:44.9 | the technology business. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Rory Kethlyn Jones and this week, the Titans of Tech, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Sundipichai and Mark |
| 0:52.5 | Zuckerberg get a grilling from the US Congress, but did |
| 0:56.1 | their companies emerge unscathed? The latest ransomware attack leaves thousands of runners, |
| 1:01.8 | cyclists, even pilots, unable to track their activities. And why is Google laying a cable |
| 1:08.9 | across the Atlantic? Joining me this week is our BBC Silicon Valley specialist reporter, James Clayton. |
| 1:15.3 | How are you doing, James? |
| 1:16.6 | Oh, I'm all good. |
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