Technology

The United States plans to impose import tariffs on six countries as a countermeasure to introducing a digital tax, which mainly affects sizeable American tech companies such as Facebook, Amazon and Google. These are US taxes on goods…

A DNS outage took many of Microsoft's services off the air last night, including Azure, Teams and Xbox Live. The breakdown has now been resolved. Anyone who tried to use Microsoft's cloud services last night could run into a severe…

Tech giant Google is spending $ 7 billion less this year on business expansions in the United States. Previously, Google promised to invest a lot more money. Before the corona crisis broke out roughly a year ago, Google talked…

Developers will soon have to pay a 15% commission on the first million dollars they earn on the Play Store for Android. That is half of the current 30%. The change is seen as a significant advance for smaller developers and…

Microsoft has plugged security holes in its Exchange email software. Hackers who worked from China have exploited it, according to the American software company. According to Microsoft, the cybercriminals targeted various US…

Tech company Twitter is looking at advertising and attracting more users to boost its annual revenue. Subscriptions to Tweetdeck, the app for professional users, are also being considered. Twitter aims to double its annual revenue…

The number of WhatsApp users does not seem to really grow after twelve years. The chat app announced on Twitter that it had "more than two billion users per month" - while a year ago, the company said it had passed the two billion…

Social network site Twitter temporarily suspended the account of Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right member of the US House of Representatives on Sunday. She allegedly violated the rules surrounding the platform's integrity.…

Investments in Chinese technology stocks have fallen sharply over the past two days. Global investors would fear a crackdown by the Chinese government against the tech sector. Bloomberg writes that. The financial agency calculated…

Apple halves the commission it charges on sales in its own app store for companies with a turnover of up to 1 million dollars. For those companies, the maker of the iPhone will now charge 15 percent commission, instead of 30 percent.…