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Nokia is looking for a way back into the smartphone market

News IT business 07-22-2025 comment
Nokia is looking for a partner to produce smartphones under its own brand. The company announced this in a strange way — on Reddit.

The largest offer in the history of AI: Zuckerberg offered $1.25 billion to a neural network engineer to join Meta, and he refused

News IT business 07-22-2025 comment
Meta wanted to lure the neural network engineer and offered a record-breaking sum of —$1.25 billion. But the idea of becoming a billionaire in a few years did not convince the developer.

«Nothing lasts forever»: Ubisoft boss responds to Stop Killing Games petition with 1.4 million signatures

News Games 07-22-2025 comment
Ubisoft is not going to stop removing games even if players are outraged. The studio’s boss Yves Guillemot responded to the Stop Killing Games petition, which was signed by more than 1.4 million people.

A rookie sysadmin in the 2000s «put» the Amazon website down for 3 hours due to a single print

News IT business 07-22-2025 comment
A small typo in a backup system configuration file cost Amazon three hours of downtime — financial losses could have been in the millions if the story had happened now instead of 20 years ago.

Nintendo retains 98% of its team while competitors lay off thousands of developers

News Games 07-21-2025 comment
Some people are always worse off during a crisis, and some are better off. Nintendo was able to put itself on the list of those who didn’t have to fire their team by the thousands.

The developer paid $600 for a web coding service, but the service ignored the instructions and deleted all the working data

News IT business 07-21-2025 comment
Services such as Replit have gained a lot of popularity amid the excitement of web coding (a process where developers write code with the help of AI), but as it turned out, this method of work may not always be successful.

After quarterly losses, Intel cuts more than 5.5 thousand employees in the US

News IT business 07-19-2025 comment
Technology companies are increasingly investing in artificial intelligence and reduce costs at the same time. To do this, many are changing their business structure to increase efficiency. In the chip manufacturing industry, Intel has recently been losing ground to competitors — including IBM, NVIDIA, and Samsung. Until recently, it seemed that…

He works from bed and goes scuba diving during breaks: Valve boss reveals his daily routine

News Games 07-19-2025 comment
Valve boss Gabe Newell is living his best life — he works on his yacht right with beds, and instead of tiktoks, he goes diving.

Microsoft allowed engineers from China to work with Pentagon systems with minimal supervision

News IT business 07-18-2025 comment
Microsoft’s Digital Escort program has come under a barrage of criticism. It seems that its employees were not professional enough in their duties due to lack of qualifications.

How much do AI specialists earn at Microsoft? A table has been leaked online

News IT business 07-18-2025 comment
In 2025, the competition for AI talent has reached a new level, and Microsoft is one of the companies that pays the most generously. At the same time, its internal culture is undergoing a transformation: intense work, staff reduction and its reliance on AI are fundamentally changing business. A new report has revealed how much Microsoft employees…

Google almost launched its own «ChatGPT» before OpenAI, — former developer, CEO of Microsoft AI

News IT business 07-18-2025 comment
At the recent ChatGPT podcast Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman appeared at the event. He stated that Google could have released its own AI chat before ChatGPT.

«Destruction of money and time»: Gabe Newell from Valve criticized the business model «first presentation, then think about how to implement»

News IT business 07-18-2025 comment
In an interview with YouTube, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell criticized modern venture capitalism, which first attracts investments and then thinks about what to do with them.

Microsoft on the rise to $4 trillion: rapid growth of capitalization amid layoffs and AI implementation

News IT business 07-18-2025 comment
Recently NVIDIA becomes the first company to reach $4 trillion in market capitalization. Even US President Donald Trump congratulated manager «green» company with this achievement. But soon, Microsoft may also take this barrier.

Top 15 B2B PR Agencies Providing PR and Communication Services for B2B Companies

IT business SEO Partner 07-18-2025
The world of modern business is extremely competitive, so any B2B company that is serious about success must do more than offer a great product or service. The key for them is to be seen and heard, and above all, to win their clients’ trust. This is where B2B PR agencies come in. Unlike consumer-oriented […]

Elon Musk is looking for a «web developer» for Grok for a salary of $440,000

News IT business 07-17-2025 comment
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has just launched one of the strangest job postings in IT at the moment — they are looking for a developer to create new avatars for Grok, mostly sexy anime girls.

The developer of Oblivion Remastered, one of the biggest hits of 2025, is laying off 300 employees

News Games 07-17-2025 comment
Developers of Oblivion Remastered and Metal Gear Solid Delta are facing massive layoffs, with up to 300 people losing their jobs.

A cruel joke from Microsoft: fired employees will be replaced by AI, which they developed

News Games 07-16-2025 comment
Microsoft cynically replaced the fired King developers with AI tools created by the same people.

14 Top PR and Communication Agencies Offering PR Services for Fintech Companies

IT business SEO Partner 07-15-2025
Financial technologies continue to rapidly transform the global market: from digital payments and online banking to investment platforms and blockchain-based solutions. Competition in fintech is high, and the level of trust from clients, investors and regulators plays a decisive role. This is why high-quality PR is becoming an integral part of the…

More than $50 million for placing a game in Game Pass — Microsoft manager leaks in his resume

News Games 07-15-2025 comment
Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass subscription makes dozens of the best games available and is quite profitable. But how profitable is it for their creators?

Xbox graphics department is looking for new employees with a post featuring a poorly generated AI image

News Games 07-15-2025 comment
After the recent massive layoffs at Microsoft, which are partially blamed on AI, the Xbox graphics department is looking for new employees. The department generated the image, but did not even correct the errors.

Sony Xperia smartphones are leaving Europe — but not all

News IT business 07-15-2025 comment
Sony has faced a decline in demand for its Xperia smartphones, and the company is starting to respond to the weak demand. After stopping global sales of the flagship Xperia 1 VII due to technical problems, Sony is completely withdrawing from the Finnish market and considering similar steps in other countries.

The hype around Witcher 4 has made CD Projekt Red one of the most expensive companies in Europe

News Games 07-14-2025 comment
CD Projekt Red has become the most expensive company in the European Stoxx 600 — all because of the hype around The Witcher 4, which is still at least two years away from release.

Jensen Huang: Trump is proud of 4 trillion NVIDIA, and the industry will survive the new duties

News AI 07-13-2025 comment
NVIDIA not only maintains leadership in the development of GPUs and hardware for artificial intelligence, but also became the first American company with a market capitalization of $4 trillion. Its CEO Jensen Huang said that this achievement made Donald Trump, with whom he recently met, personally proud. The head of the «green» company also…

China's zombie factories: billions for chips — and emptiness

News IT business 07-12-2025 comment
In recent years, China has been aggressively developing its own semiconductor industry in an effort to reduce its dependence on Western technologies. The country now has fairly advanced fabs that can produce chips based on the 7nm process, as well as world-class 3D NAND and DRAM memory. However, not all projects have been successful, which,…

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…

China — Apple's new main market? iPhone outpaced local brands due to government subsidies, and the US faces tariff risk

News IT business 07-08-2025 comment
Apple doesn’t seem to be too concerned about moving production to the US. Due to the favorable conditions in China, the iPhone is overtaking local brands in popularity.

Ask ChatGPT: 69% of users no longer go to sites from search

News IT business 07-03-2025 comment
Today, news journalism is not only about finding interesting facts, but also about surviving in the face of digital competition and instability. Search engines no longer guarantee traffic, and users are increasingly asking ChatGPT for news instead of Google.

AI startup bosses discovered that they hired the same IT specialist from India — he worked for 4 simultaneously

News IT business 07-03-2025 comment
Playground AI founder Suhail Doshi accused Indian developer Soham Parekh of cheating employers, as he discovered that he worked for 3-4 startups at the same time and continued to look for work in others.

Microsoft lays off 9,000 employees — almost 50% in Xbox studios

News Games 07-03-2025 comment
On July 2, Microsoft announced the layoffs of 9,000 employees, or about 4% of the company’s total workforce. Almost half of these layoffs were in the gaming division.

An Amazon developer has been working for 30 minutes a day for a year — because of «discrimination» from colleagues from India

News IT business 07-03-2025 comment
The Blind website, which is intended for work stories of anonymous employees, has gone viral post an Amazon developer who claims to have been working only 30 minutes a day for almost a year.

«Petty» hooliganism for $200,000: IT specialist received 7 months in prison for revenge on his employer

News IT business 07-02-2025 comment
In modern business, digital security is becoming as important as financial stability or reputation. One incident, even by a «employee, can cause serious losses. This is exactly what happened in the UK, where a suspended IT employee decided to take revenge on his employer — and is now in jail.

Apple accuses Vision Pro engineer of stealing «thousands of documents» — before leaving for competitors

News IT business 07-02-2025 comment
Apple has accused its former senior Vision Pro engineer, Di Liu, of stealing tons of confidential information before leaving for another company.

«Artificial intelligence performs up to 50% of the work in Salesforce», — CEO Marc Benioff

News IT business 07-01-2025 comment
The Californian giant of CRM, database, and many other products and services is actively involving AI in production. It performs almost half of the work at Salesforce.

Trump sent Elon Musk to Africa: «No more missiles, electric cars, the country will save huge money»

News IT business 07-01-2025 comment
In response to Elon Musk’s continued fierce criticism of the «great big beautiful bill», Donald Trump threatens to set a DOGE on him and expelled to South Africa.

Djinni outage deletes 20,000 IT resumes — Friday night update to blame

News IT business 06-30-2025 comment
Djinni, a Ukrainian service for anonymous job search in IT, has experienced a major failure, which, as it turns out, deleted about 20,000 resumes.

Shareholder sues Apple over «fake» Siri presentation

News IT business 06-23-2025 comment
When Apple unveiled iOS 18 last year, tech fans and investors alike held their breath, and some started throwing their hats in the air. After all, the update was not just some minor design revision, but a new generation of personalized Siri with artificial intelligence elements — Apple Intelligence. Expectations were high, but something went…

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.

Web coding makes you rich: a programmer sold a startup for $80 million and created it in just six months

News IT business 06-19-2025 comment
For some, AI means losing their jobs, while for others it is a gold mine. Improving productivity through web coding allows you to earn a lot with little effort.

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.

How a little-known tax change in the US caused a wave of layoffs in IT in recent years

News IT business 06-12-2025 comment
Tax policy plays a huge and, unfortunately, often unpredictable role in stimulating certain activities. This important change in the U.S. seems to have become a real global disaster for IT.

Google's boss became a web coder and builds his own AI website in his spare time

News IT business 06-05-2025 comment
It seems that web coding has also reached the top of tech companies — Google boss Sundar Pichai liked the idea of «coding without stress and for fun» so much that he started creating his own website in his spare time.

Canceled Black Panther: first concept art shows Wakanda and T'Challa's battle with Azari

News Games 05-29-2025 comment
EA continues the wave of liquidations — this time, Black Panther and its Cliffhanger Games studio fell into the company’s hands. Therefore, we can only look at the leaked concept art.

A powerful competitor to Samsung and SK Hynix — China's CXMT will produce DDR5 and HBM3

News IT business 05-28-2025 comment
China’s huge ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT, is moving to production of DDR5 memory and HBM3. This is a blow to Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron in the domestic market.

Apple buys a game studio for the first time and plans to show a new app for gamers at WWDC 2025

News Games 05-28-2025 comment
Apple has acquired a game studio for the first time in its history — we’re talking about Canadian developers Sneaky Sasquatch from RAC7.

The first in the world: Xiaomi overtakes Apple in the smartwatch market

News IT business 05-26-2025 comment
Xiaomi took the lead in smartwatch sales, pushing Apple into second place.

IBM fired 8000 employees in favor of AI, and hired even more in a year

News IT business 05-26-2025 comment
In 2023, IBM, one of the oldest technology companies in the world, announced that it would lay off nearly 8,000 employees within the framework of process automation in favor of AI. However, contrary to the initial plans, this strategy led to the hiring of even more people within a year.

Samsung too: Trump promises 25% tariff on Android smartphones made outside the US

News IT business 05-25-2025 comment
On Friday, May 23, Android users had the opportunity to gloat about Apple, to whom Donald Trump promised a 25% duty. But later he promised the same to Samsung.

How much does an iPhone cost? Trump threatens Apple with a 25% duty if the company does not move production to the US

News IT business 05-23-2025 comment
US President Donald Trump has demanded that Apple move production of its products to the US. We are talking about iPhones sold in the US market.

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