World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee attends a news conference in London December 11, 2014. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth/File Photo
LONDON: Silicon Valley technology giants such as Facebook and Google have grown so dominant they may need to be broken up, unless challengers or changes in taste reduce their clout, the inventor of the World Wide Web said.
The digital revolution has spawned a handful of US-based technology companies since the 1990s that now have a combined financial and cultural power greater than most sovereign states.
