The past two months were inundated with articles and opinions on “Big Tech”, to the point that with literally everybody fulminating on their respective (and often repetitive and generic) opinions, I got completely put off from writing any of my own. 

Things seemed to have cooled down for sometime though, with a new administration about to take over in the U.S. and the mundane grunt work of investigations underway elsewhere including India, and I thought why not put out a list of the best and most prominent news events and opinions concerning Big Tech ? So listed below, in no particular Order, are in my personal opinion, some must read reports, write ups and op-eds on all that’s been going on since “Big Tech” became the next giant problem to tackle after Climate Change and Inequality. I may or may not agree with everything that’s been written in these, but its always important to read and attempt to understand views contrary to your own as well. 

Salil Tripathi, Saving the News Biz from Google, Facebook (Mint) 

Cheng Leng, Keith Zhai and David Kirton, China preparing an Antitrust Investigation into Google – Sources (Reuters)

Tom Warren, Microsoft Hits Out at Apple with its New Windows App Store Policies (The Verge) 

Shivdeep Dhaliwal, Microsoft Plans to Skirt Apple Ban on Cloud Gaming Apps Via Browser – Based Service (Benzinga)

Mihir Dalal and Prasid Banerjee, Why Vocal for Local Won’t Bother Google (Mint)

Bloomberg Wire Agency Feed, E.U.’s Failure to Hit Google Where it Hurts is a Lesson for U.S. (Mint)

Ajai Sreevatsan, How Big Tech Reset will Impact India (Mint)

Aaron Holmes, Tech Giants have Skirted Regulation because of how Monopolies are defined by law. Democrats Now Want to Rewrite Those Laws (Business Insider)

Gerrit De Vynck and David McLaughlin, U.S. Antitrust Case Against Google Mimics Lawsuit that Attacked Microsoft (Business Standard – via Bloomberg)

AFP, Google Strikes Payment Deal with French Media (Economic Times)