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Elon Musk emerges victorious in the fight for Twitter
News broke late yesterday that the Twitter Board had accepted the offer from Elon Musk of $54.20 per share, a number that values the business at some $44 billion.
Twitter: let the battle for ownership commence
Elon Musk has seemingly been an advocate for what we call ‘logical libertarianism’ for quite some years now.
Can Elon Musk bring tangible change to Twitter?
When news broke that the worlds richest man Elon Musk was buying a >9% stake in Twitter, the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.
Google has released an emergency patch for the Chrome browser
Google is urging all users of its popular Chrome web browser to update their installations as soon as possible.
Epic Games pledges humanitarian aid for Ukraine
Epic Games, which is one of the biggest video games producers in the world has pledged its support to the people of war-torn Ukraine.
Android has a brand new taskbar and multi-window function
Google’s Android OS was originally designed for smartphones, but eventually found its way to tablets and notable other devices such as Smart TV’s and e-readers.
Microsoft looking to bring advertising into more of its software?
It seems Microsoft is getting ready to integrate advertising into more of its products. Some Microsoft power users have noticed an advert in the latest iteration of Windows 11 File...
Reggie Fils-Aimé is not a fan of Facebook’s metaverse
The future potential of the Metaverse, which could best be summarised as a new iteration of Second Life, is a subject that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has identified as a definin...
New Google Messages functionality and features announced
Google has just announced a slew of new features that are either coming to coming to Google Messages, or already launched and available to some users.
File Explorer tabs to return in Windows 11?
Over the years, power users of the Windows OS have long asked the Washington state-based tech titan to improve the File Explorer interface, prompting several to create concepts tha...
More platform players reject Russian aggression, stop sales there
Game publishers such as Epic Games, Ubisoft, Take-Two and Activision-Blizzard are joining the boycott of Russia by pausing the sale of games in the country.
WhatsApp to launch new group polling functionality
WhatsApp is reportedly working on new functionality that will allow its users to create polls in group chats.
Samsung Electronics becomes latest victim of ransomware group
Notorious hacking group Lapsus$, which recently threatened to leak source code belonging to Nvidia, has now leaked a massive collection of data from Samsung Electronics.
Twitch seeks to ban creators that share ‘misinformation’ on the Internet
The move by Amazon.com-owned video streamer Twitch comes as other platform players are also seeking to crackdown on the spread of propaganda and fake news from Russian media outlet...
TikTok rolls out support for 10-minute videos, challenges YouTube
TikTok, the viral platform that became wildly popular because of its once ubiquitous short-video model, is now allowing a select number of creators to upload videos up to 10-minute...