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How artificial intelligence is changing the requirements for QA engineers in 2025: commentary by Yuliia Baranetska from Playtika

IT business IT business 08-28-2025
In 2025, the QA engineer job market is undergoing a transformation. According to the LinkedIn Work-Change Report, since 2023, the number of users who added AI skills to their profiles has increased by 177%. This is nearly five times faster than the growth of other skills (+36%). At the same time, the demand for specialists […]

Top 17 tech PR agencies providing PR services for technology and IT companies

IT business SEO Partner 07-09-2025
PR agencies specializing in the tech sector play a key role in shaping a company’s image, bringing new products to market, and building trust with their target audience. In a rapidly changing digital landscape where information spreads at lightning speed, effective communication is not just desirable, it’s vital. From compelling content…

Elon Musk's xAI company spends $1 billion a month and attracts billions in loans due to low revenues

News IT business 06-20-2025 comment
Elon Musk’s startup xAI spends $1 billion a month, as the cost of creating advanced artificial intelligence models far outstrips its income. The company also attracts loans.

Microsoft Xbox announces strategic partnership with AMD — consoles, cloud services, and more

News IT business 06-18-2025 comment
While gamers are thinking about whether to upgrade their Xbox Series X|S or look at portable devices, Microsoft is preparing an unexpected but quite logical step. The company has officially confirmed its long-term cooperation with AMD, which will form the basis for the next generation of Xbox. Thus, «red» chips will once again be at the heart of…

Intel Foundry cuts up to 20% of staff — more than 10 thousand employees will be laid off without «golden parachutes»

News IT business 06-18-2025 comment
Intel’s chip making business will soon experience rapid negative headcount growth. The reason is simple — a lack of money.

Microsoft research: endless working hours lead to loss of productivity

News IT business 06-18-2025 comment
A special Microsoft report notes that despite employers’ promises to make the working day normalized and balanced after the COVID-19 pandemic, the opposite happened.

Microsoft fired an IT specialist with 25 years of experience based on the decision of the AI algorithm — on his birthday

News IT business 05-23-2025 comment
Microsoft’s latest large-scale layoffs, targeted at 3% of the staff (about 6,000 people)The layoffs affected mostly programmers — about 2,000 IT workers were laid off in Washington alone.

Is NVIDIA moving to Taiwan? Jensen Huang's announcement is expected in Taipei

News IT business 05-14-2025 comment
The Taiwanese press reports that NVIDIA is preparing a global headquarters in Taiwan. The official announcement of the «housewarming» is expected next week.

Microsoft lays off more than 6000 people in favor of AI — the largest reduction since 2023

News IT business 05-14-2025 comment
Microsoft has announced the layoff of about 6000 employees, which is almost 3% of the company’s entire team. And they can thank AI.

Alphabet's share price drops 8% after Apple announces record traffic loss — Google denies

News IT business 05-08-2025 comment
Words about possible disappearance of the iPhone were not the only high-profile statement by Apple CEO Eddy Cue in the Google trial. He also managed to reduce the value of Alphabet.

Google goes Hollywood — the company has created a film and TV division 100 Zeros

News IT business 05-06-2025 comment
Google signs a multi-year partnership agreement with Range Media Partners and launches 100 Zeros, a film and TV production division.

Microsoft raises the price of Xbox worldwide and will sell AAA games for $80

News Games 05-05-2025 comment
Microsoft has officially confirmed another wave of price increases — players are outraged because they thought $70 was the maximum price for AAA projects.

A signal for investors? Tesla's CEO has sold off almost all of her shares

News Auto 04-30-2025 comment
Tesla has not been doing well lately Cybertruck was not so successfulas Elon Musk said, Consumers in Europe are refusing to buy electric cars from an American company in favor of Chinese models, and The latest financial report shows a drop in profits. Against this backdrop, another piece of news about the automaker looks very telling. Robin…

Get your money ready: Discord to be led by former Activision Blizzard vice president

News IT business 04-24-2025 comment
Changes are taking place within Discord — On April 28, Humam Sahnini, known as the former vice president of Activision Blizzard and King, will take over as CEO.

Scythe is on the verge of bankruptcy due to low-cost cooler clones

News Devices 04-23-2025 comment
It seems that the well-known computer cooling systems manufacturer Scythe is in a difficult situation. Its European division is potentially on the verge of closure, and there is a shortage of CPU coolers on the market. The main reason for this situation is that Scythe’s European division has exhausted its working capital and filed for…

US CEOs with «the highest» intelligence: Nvidia boss leads, Elon Musk is not in the ranking

News IT business 04-18-2025 comment
Website Visual Capitalist in collaboration with Preply, has created a ranking of the 15 smartest CEOs in the United States, which includes the names of many tech leaders — the bosses of Nvidia, Adobe, and OpenAI, among others.

All friends could disappear from Facebook — inside «Zuckerberg's crazy» plan

News IT business 04-16-2025 comment
Social networks need more and more users to increase revenue or attract new advertisers by demonstrating engagement rates. But in 2022, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was considering an idea so absurd that the board of directors might be glad it wasn’t implemented. Internal correspondence presented during the antitrust trial shows: Zuckerberg…

Mark Zuckerberg spent «$45 billion on the metaverse in 4 years — the same amount Musk paid for Twitter

News IT business 04-14-2025 comment
It’s been more than 4 years since Mark Zuckerberg changed the Facebook brand to Meta and invested tens of billions in his vision of the meta-universe — but the company has shown little in action to match this amount, raising doubts about the viability of the strategy.

TSMC may pay $1 billion to the US for inadvertent supply of Huawei chips

News Devices 04-10-2025 comment
TSMC, the world’s largest chipmaker, may face a fine of more than $1 billion, according to knowledgeable sources. Although this amount is not critical for TSMC, it is hardly a trifle.

Trump's duties: Apple is getting cheaper, iPhones will become more expensive

News IT business 04-03-2025 comment
When Trump imposed tariffs on China in his first term as president, Apple began to move production of iPads and AirPods to Vietnam and iPhones to India. This won’t help now.

ChatGPT Reaches 20 Million Paid Users, OpenAI's Revenue Increases by 30% in Three Months

News IT business 04-02-2025 comment
OpenAI is growing its ChatGPT subscriber base at an extremely fast pace. Since the beginning of the year, it has added 4.5 million users. The growth can be compared to a rocket.

Why Elon Musk sold X (Twitter) to himself for $33 billion

News IT business 03-29-2025 comment
On Friday, March 28, Elon Musk announced about the acquisition of social network X (formerly Twitter) by his own company xAI. The reason for the deal may lie on the surface.

Apple meeting leak reveals Siri and AI disaster — marketing races ahead of real opportunities

News IT business 03-18-2025 comment
The company is trying to include some AI-based features in iOS 19 that were announced last June, but there are big problems with this.

DeepSeek developers' passports were taken away to make them unable to travel

News IT business 03-16-2025 comment
It seems that China really appreciates DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence technologies. So much so that their creators have been banned from leaving the country. It also became known about the company’s future plans.

Anthropic boss: «Artificial intelligence will write 90% of the code in six months, and in a year — it will take over everything»

News IT business 03-12-2025 comment
CEO of Anthropic and «father» Claude chatbot Dario Amodei made a sharp prediction about the future of software engineers, hinting that their main job will be 100% performed by artificial intelligence in a year.

A Disney employee accidentally «leaked» 1 TB of internal company data — through a free AI program downloaded from GitHub to his work PC

News IT business 02-27-2025 comment
The leak included employee logins and passwords to various services, 44 million messages exchanged at work between different Disney departments, and some customer data.

Apple to raise iPhone and Mac prices by 9% to compensate for Trump's tariffs — Bank of America

News Devices 02-21-2025 comment
According to Bank of America’s forecasts, Apple will have to significantly raise prices for iPhones and other products or fully compensate for future duties proposed by Donald Trump.

IBM launches «soft» return to offices program with relocation requirement, provoking layoffs in favor of AI

News IT business 02-13-2025 comment
IBM Corporation, one of the world’s largest computer and software manufacturers, has launched a «soft» return to office program that offers employees to do full-time work under the threat of dismissal.

Apple has officially acquired Pixelmator and Photomator, popular image editors for iOS and macOS. What's next?

News IT business 02-12-2025 comment
Pixelmator and Photomator are now officially part of the Apple ecosystem.

Meta is laying off about 3,500 employees whom Zuckerberg has identified as «inefficient»

News IT business 01-15-2025 comment
Meta announced the first round of layoffs in 2025, in which 5% of the workforce will be reduced. According to the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the layoffs will primarily target people with “low efficiency.”

Xiaomi showed the fastest growth in the smartphone market in 2024 — Samsung and Apple's share fell

News Devices 01-13-2025 comment
According to Counterpoint, Xiaomi has increased its presence in the smartphone market by 1%, while Samsung and Apple showed a slight decrease. Overall, the market grew by 4% in 2024.

EA Sports FC 25 conquers the charts, mobile projects generate 50% of revenue — gaming industry in 2024 in numbers

News Games 12-23-2024 comment
Analytical publication GamesIndustry.biz published its annual report on the state of the video game industry in 2024. Leading research companies, including Newzoo, Circana, Nielsen GfK, Sensor Tower, and Famitsu, contributed to the report.

The average salary in Ukraine «increased» to ₴21,946. The largest increase is in IT (+37,7%), while the education sector lags behind

News IT business 12-09-2024 comment
According to State Statistics Service, the average salary of full-time employees in Ukraine in the third quarter of 2024 increased by 22.3% to ₴21,946.

The average salary in Ukraine has increased to almost UAH 21 thousand. IT employees receive the most

News IT business 09-09-2024 comment
The State Statistics Service has released a new report on the average salary of officially employed workers in Ukraine. According to the report, the average salary in the second quarter of 2024 in Ukraine increased to UAH 20,964.

Vlad Yatsenko, Dmytro Zaporozhets, and others. The top of the richest IT entrepreneurs in Ukraine has been revealed

IT business News 05-21-2024 comment
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The publication NV amounted to rating of the richest IT entrepreneurs in Ukraine. The top spots were taken by businessmen focused on Western markets — Vlad Yatsenko, Dmytro Zaporozhets, and Taras Kitsmey and Yaroslav Lubinets of SoftServe.

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