Category Archives: Business

The European Commission defines Microsoft as a “gatekeeper” under the Digital Markets Act. Here’s how Microsoft plans to change Windows to avoid running afoul of the new competition laws. Earlier this year, the European Commission designated Microsoft as one of six

Though generative AI and robotics are receiving a lot of attention now, some businesses are ignoring the hype and honing in on more focused tactics. Business leaders recognize automation is changing the way companies operate. The hope is that automation —

An unredacted version of the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Amazon contains more details about ‘Project Nessie,’ which allegedly inflated prices for certain consumer items. Amazon squeezed an extra $1 billion from consumers by using a computer algorithm to inflate prices

By 2025, according to IDC, organizations will allocate over 40% of their core IT spend to AI-related initiatives, leading to a double-digit increase in the rate of product and process innovations. Artificial intelligence is poised to reshape the IT industry

What just happened? Meta imitated X (formerly Twitter) this week by changing Facebook’s logo, though you’d be forgiven for not noticing. Rather than introducing an entirely new image that represents the social media platform, Meta’s alteration was so subtle that it’s

The big picture: British chip design firm Arm has revealed that it has signed a long-term licensing deal with Apple to provide designs for future iPhone and Mac chipsets. Apple’s iPhone and iPad lineups have been powered by Arm-designed chips since

Forward-looking: The “AI server” moniker defines a new type of data center product, which makes extensive use of GPUs and other specialized processors to accelerate AI and generative AI-based workloads. Demand for such AI servers is growing exponentially, and Foxconn is

What just happened? Chip designer Arm is all set to go public with a listing on the NASDAQ stock exchange in New York in September. Ahead of the expected IPO, reports suggest that some of the biggest tech companies in the

In context: Founded in December 2022 by Amazon (AWS), Meta, Microsoft, and former geolocation giant TomTom, the Overture Maps Foundation aims to create a reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map dataset for third-party companies and developers. The project’s first “alpha” release

Why it matters: Huawei is one of the companies that have seen an outsized impact as a result of the US-China trade war. However, the company has a plan to renter the global 5G smartphone race by developing chipmaking tools and