Techstrong News Recap – October 3, 2022

Hi again, everyone here the headlines for October 3rd. First up. The House of Representatives approved at antitrust legislation targeting the dominance of big tech companies among the measures within the legislation.

It allows States the ability to choose the location of Courts where they decide Federal antitrust cases as well as increase the filing fees by companies to federal agencies for proposed mergers worth more than 500 million dollars. These measures hope to avoid the home court advantage big tech companies currently gain from being in Northern California as well as increase the revenue for federal enforcement efforts. This legislation comes as more and more states have joined with the justice department in Federal Trade Commission in lawsuits against big tech companies.

While on the subject of big Tech Google has announced plans to expand its cloud services infrastructure to Greece and a move that is promising to create 20,000 jobs. Google is also announced plans to create a research center for Tech sustainability and Ai and two Greek cities. 2 billion euros to the Greek economy by 2030.

This plan follows other big tech companies that have announced investments in Greece such as Microsoft Cisco and Amazon. This comes as Greece has been trying to boost his Tech sector hoping to diversify its economy that is overly reliant on tourism. Next up Japan has announced that they will be providing Micron Technology a major US chipmaker with a subsidy of 322 million dollars to build Advanced memory chips at a Hiroshima Factory.

Micron is stated that they will use the subsidy to strengthen production capacity and develop new Chips. This plan comes as us as trying to remote technology cooperation between Japan South Korea and Taiwan amidst China's growing influence. Japan itself is set up its own fund to support semiconductor manufacturing with this being its third deal so far.

In other news Netflix is setting up its own video game Studio as it moves to solidify its position in the gaming industry. While Netflix is purchased small gaming studios in the past. It is moving towards creating an in-house Studio from the ground up.

In April Netflix announced the loss of 200,000 subscribers and since then it has lost an additional million Netflix has been causing up to the gaming industry over the past couple years with releasing series based on several hit games, but with opening up its own Studio, they can focus on their own IP and grow in a congested streaming Market. com. We have an article looking at several of atlassian's new announcements at the recent business event among some of these announcements are the announcement of smart links a directory that tracks projects across separate applications and a subscription bundle for all of its offerings together.

Atlassian has stated that these new features and products are part of their effort to improve the collaboration with devops teams. com. On Security Boulevard, we have an article looking at a recently published Memo by the White House requiring agencies to comply with guidelines from The Office of Management and budget.

The memo Builds on an executive order focused on the security and in the Integrity of the software supply chain. The memo requires each Federal agency to comply with the nist guidance when using third party software. com finally on digital cxo.

We have an article looking at five important areas to focus on when working towards inclusive design inclusive design allows for users to meaningfully interact with software. So the more inclusive of design is the more people that can and will use it. However, when working towards inclusive design five factors have to be considered Equitable access regulatory requirements improving usability expanding user reach and reputation.

com and that's today's Tech strong news recap.