Economy Jan 03 Video game testers form Microsoft’s 1st U.S. labor union A group of video game testers is forming Microsoft's first labor union in the U.S. It will also be the largest union in the video game industry.
Nation Dec 19 Twitter poll closes, majority of users vote for Musk to step down as CEO More than half of 17.5 million users who responded to a Twitter poll created by billionaire Elon Musk over whether he should step down as head of the company had voted yes by the time the poll closed.
Economy Dec 18 Twitter bans linking to Facebook, Instagram, other rival platforms Twitter users will no longer be able to link to certain rival social media websites, including what the company described Sunday as “prohibited platforms” Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon.
Nation Dec 16 Journalists who wrote about owner Elon Musk suspended from Twitter Accounts of reporters with The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and other publications, went dark Thursday.
Nation Dec 13 Musk’s Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety advisory group The advisory group of around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations was formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform.
Economy Dec 08 FTC sues to block Microsoft-Activision Blizzard $69 billion merger The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued to block Microsoft's planned $69 billion takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard, saying it could suppress competitors to its Xbox game consoles and its growing games subscription business.
Politics Dec 07 Pentagon splits $9 billion cloud computer network contract between 4 firms Google, Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon will share in the Pentagon's $9 billion contract to build its cloud computing network.
Arts Dec 07 As the video game industry evolves, making ‘indie’ video games gets trickier How long these “indie” studios can flourish is up for debate as the gaming industry undergoes increasing consolidation.
Nation Nov 18 Twitter workers continue to resign after Musk’s ‘hardcore’ ultimatum Hundreds of employees signaled they were leaving ahead of a Thursday deadline set by Musk, posting a salute emoji or other symbols familiar to Twitter workers on the company’s internal Slack messaging board.
Economy Nov 13 Outsourced content moderators lose Twitter jobs in Musk’s latest round of cuts Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk is further gutting the teams that battle misinformation on the social media platform as outsourced moderators learned over the weekend they were out of a job.