Category: Apps

Twitter owner Elon Musk made a surprising announcement yesterday and carried out his plan today that Twitter’s bird logo will now be an X. He tweeted this morning that X.com…

The Federal Trade Commission has sued Amazon. The F.T.C. alleged that Amazon has tricked millions of customers into signing up for Amazon Prime by using deceptive interface designs. They also…

The European Union privacy regulators fined Meta, Facebook’s parent company, with a record fine of $1.3 billion. The regulators allegedly sent user information to the United States servers.

Elon Musk named NBC Universal advertising sales chief Linda Yaccarino to succeed Musk as Twitter’s next CEO.

Elon Musk announced that he will step down as the CEO of Twitter as he has found Twitter’s next CEO. Musk did not identify who the new CEO will be.

San Francisco, CA.: According to his father, Bob Lee, the founder of CashApp and the Chief Product Officer at MobileCoin, was stabbed to death yesterday in San Francisco.

Amazon to cut 9,000 more jobs.

Washington, D.C.: The Justice Department has allegedly launched an investigation involving, the owners of TikTok, ByteDance’s admission that employees had inappropriately obtained American citizen’s data while using TikTok.

Washington, D.C.: The Biden Administration has threatened a ban on TikTok, if the owners from China do not sell their stakes in the company. The app is owned by Beijing…

Facebook & Instagram’s parent company, Meta, plans to fire around 10,000 workers and will not fill 5,000 open positions with the company.

Twitter announced that the website has been hit by outages this morning. New owner Elon Musk tweeted, “This platform is so brittle (sigh). Will be fixed shortly.”

Twitter announced that their adjusted December earnings fell 40% with the likely cause being that many advertisers left because of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter.

Following the United States actions, the European Union’s executive body has banned TikTok from being used on work related devices being used by the E.U.’s staff.

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta Platform is set to launch a paid subscription service which will let users verify their accounts using their government ID and get…

YouTube’s CEO for almost 10 years, Susan Wojcicki is stepping down to focus on her family. Neal Mohan will be the new CEO of YouTube.

Meta has unblocked former president Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts after being suspended for 2 years for his messages on them on January 6, 2021.

Washington, D.C.: The United States Justice Department and several states are suing Google over alleged antitrust violations. The violations go to the tech company allegedly abusing a monopoly of the…

Spotify is the latest tech company to cut its workforce. Spotify plans to cut 6% of its workforce.

Amazon has layed off 18,000 workers today, in the company’s latest wave of job cuts.

Amazon is expected to lay off more than 17,000 employees, which is a larger number than previous estimates.

European Union Regulators have fined Meta $390 million euros after discovering that they forced its users to accept personalized advertisements illegally on Facebook & Instagram. The E.U. may make them…

The European Union have charged Meta with antitrust violations. The company allegedly distorted competitions by linking its online classified-ad service to Facebook and away from competitors.

Elon Musk has asked Twitter users to vote on whether he should step down as head of the social media company. He pledged to adhere to the results of the…

Elon Musk’s Twitter has suspended some journalist from CNN, New York Times, Washington Post and other news outlets without any explanation after they reported on Elon Musk.

Atlanta, Ga.: Georgia Governot Brian Kemp has followed the U.S. Congress’ actions by announcing that every branch and division of the state government will be banned from having TikTok, WeChat…