About half of the washing machines, ovens, refrigerators and other smart goods released in recent years are connected to the internet by users, to the regret of the manufacturers. This is according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. A manufacturer like LG reports that less than half of […]
Tech
The round of layoffs at Microsoft particularly affects employees working on virtual and mixed reality. Microsoft announced last week that it would lay off 10,000 people, or about 5 percent of its workforce. Of course, these layoffs concern different departments, but it is striking that the teams around metaverse, virtual […]
Tech group Microsoft will announce within a few days that it will cut thousands of jobs. British news channel Sky News claims this without clarifying the message’s source. It would be about five percent of the total workforce of more than 220,000 people. So that would mean that more than […]
The German concern Volkswagen (VW) sold fewer vehicles in 2022 for the third year in a row. Group sales totalled 8.26 million vehicles, the lowest level in eleven years, VW announced on Thursday. Sales of cars (with brands such as Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda, Seat and Porsche), buses and trucks (MAN, […]
Advertisers on Instagram and Facebook will soon no longer be able to target young people based on gender. Meta, the parent company of the platforms, has announced this. From February, companies that want to advertise specifically to young people will only be able to do so based on their age […]
The top man of the popular Chinese app TikTok, Shou Zi Chew, will meet several European Commissioners in Brussels on Tuesday at his own request. The company must prepare for the new European regulations on disinformation. Among others, Chew will see Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, and also her colleagues Vera […]
The American technology group Apple has hired staff for its first stores in India. This was informed by the British business newspaper Financial Times. Apple wants to open so-called Flagship stores in major Indian cities such as Mumbai and New Delhi. In addition to store staff, Apple is also looking […]
The American technology group Microsoft allows a union delegation for the first time in its 47-year history. This is done at the request of the employees in the video game branch ZeniMax Studios. That company developed, among other things, the popular game ‘Doom’. Microsoft is thus following a trend because […]
US House of Representatives members are no longer allowed to use the app on their official smartphones for fear of security risks. The rule, introduced by the House administration, comes a week after the US Senate voted on legislation to ban TikTok from the work phones of all government officials. […]
Ten American gamers want to block the planned takeover of games studio Activision Blizzard by tech group Microsoft. They, therefore, went to court in California. The American competition watchdog FTC had also started a case to prevent the merger. The ten gamers claim in their complaint that the acquisition of […]
