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Airbnb Moving Out Of China Due to Pandemic Lockdowns

The continuing lockdowns in major Chinese destinations caused by the Covid-19 pandemic are forcing vacation rental firm Airbnb to move out of China. According to...

Broadcom In Discussions To Purchase Cloud Solutions Firm VMware For $50 Billion

According to sources privy with the issue, Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is in discussions with cloud solutions firm VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) to acquire...

Canada Bans China’s Huawei, ZTE Technologies in 5G Network

Over security concerns, the federal government of Canada has barred  Chinese telecommunication firms Huawei and ZTE from working on the country's 5G networks, a...

Legislators Introduce Bipartisan Bill That will Require Google To Divest Its Ad Business

A proposed bipartisan bill targeting Google could force the search engine giant to split its online advertising business once it is passed. Chair and ranking...

Elon Musk Pokes Holes on Proposed Takeover of Twitter Over Number of Scam and Fake Accounts

Elon Musk has asked Twitter to offer additional information regarding fake and spam accounts on the platform. The billionaire has said that a deal...

Jeff Bezos Hits on President Biden Over Inflation

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos became the latest billionaire to engage in political sparring on Twitter this weekend, calling President Joe Biden's remark about business...

Elon Musk says he will lift Donald Trump’s Twitter Ban Once his $44 Billion Acquisition Closes

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he could lift Twitter's block on former US President Donald Trump if his $44 billion bid to buy the social media...

Apple Pulls the Plug on the Iconic iPod After 20 Years

Apple's legendary line of iPod music players has been retired, ending the music player's two-decade career. The Cupertino, California-based company in a statement on Tuesday...

U.S. SEC Fines Nvidia $5.5m over GPU sales to Crypto Miners

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday reported that NVIDIA has agreed to pay $5.5 million to resolve allegations that it "failed to...

Google is Revising Its Performance Reviews System to Ease the Burden on Employees

Google hopes to make performance evaluations less burdensome for employees by reducing the number of reviews to once per year rather than twice per year,...

What does your employer know about you through Teams and other Microsoft products?

As companies expand their use of various work-from-home software, there is also a growing concern about what kinds of data their boss can access....

Elon Musk Hints on Twitter Charging Government/Commercial Users A Fee

On Tuesday, Elon Musk stated that Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) could start charging government and commercial users a slight charge as part of his...

Mark Zuckerberg opens his first physical retail space with his company Meta

Meta Platforms, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, will be opening its first physical retail store in May to offer its hardware products. Customers...

Apple Reports Strong Quarter Earnings Despite Supply Woes, Expecting Demand Slowdown

Apple Inc. beat earnings estimates and established a new record of $97.3 billion in total revenue for the March quarter to kick-off 2022. However,...

Zuckerberg can rejoice. He is $11 billion richer in a day

Billionaire and Meta Platforms chief Mark Zuckerberg had the best day of his life, at least as far as his wealth is concerned. Shares...

Cloud Services Lifts Up Microsoft’s Quarter Earnings

Microsoft announced high quarterly results on Tuesday, owing to robust demand for its cloud computing services. In the first three months of this year, the...

Elon Musk Is Buying Twitter For $44 Billion

Elon Musk is going to be a media mogul. He will add the entire social network to his more than 83 million followers on...

6 Reasons to Use the WhatsApp Business API

WhatsApp has over 100 billion messages sent every day. While some businesses may use the WhatsApp Business App, it may not be scalable for...

Twitter Prohibits Ads Denying Climate Change

Ads that reject the fact of climate change will now be prohibited by Twitter. In time for Friday's Earth Day, Twitter made the statement as it...

Big Tech Will Be Forced to Remove Illegal Content in the Eurozone

Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook will soon be required to immediately remove illegal content in the Eurozone. European Union legislators on Saturday passed...