{"id":988217,"date":"2026-01-28T09:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988217"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:45:11","slug":"zohos-sridhar-vembu-labels-big-tech-east-india-company-pitches-for-technology-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/zohos-sridhar-vembu-labels-big-tech-east-india-company-pitches-for-technology-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoho\u2019s Sridhar Vembu labels big tech \u2018East India Company\u2019, pitches for \u2018technology sovereignty\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France took the decision to phase out American video meeting solutions with a homegrown alternative, and Zoho\u2019s co-founder, Sridhar Vembu, has shared his take on the matter, calling for \u2018technology sovereignty\u2019 as sovereign nations stand up. In a post on X, Vembu likened today\u2019s Big Tech companies to the historical East India Company, praising Europe\u2019s awakening to the risks of foreign tech dominance, while also taunting at the irony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France took the decision to phase out American video meeting solutions with a homegrown alternative, and Zoho\u2019s co-founder, Sridhar Vembu, has shared his take on the matter, calling for \u2018technology sovereignty\u2019 as sovereign nations stand up. In a post on X, Vembu likened today\u2019s Big Tech companies to the historical East India Company, praising Europe\u2019s awakening to the risks of foreign tech dominance, while also taunting at the irony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}