Microsoft buys Bethesda, owner of The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Wolfenstein, Doom, Dishonored and Quake
Microsoft has just announced one of the most important movements in the history of the video game industry: the purchase of ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda Softworks, for...
Nvidia confirms purchase of ARM for $40 billion
Nvidia has announced that it has reached an agreement with the SoftBank Group to buy the British chip designer ARM for $40 billion ('33.75 billion). The company says that...
IMF predicts ‘crisis like no other’ after COVID-19
It estimates growth this year at -4.9 per cent, or nearly two percentage points below projections in April, indicating that the recession will be deeper and recovery slower.
The latest...
Central Bank of Brazil suspends WhatsApp’s new mobile payments
The Central Bank of Brazil has suspended the recently launched mobile payments in the country in order to analyze the situation with a view to "preserving an appropriate competitive...
Facebook buys Google Street View competitor
This is not the first move Facebook makes in the world of maps, in 2019 it opened its artificial intelligence tool to OpenStreetMap users and announced its plans to...
Coronavirus: deepest recession since World War Two
In rich countries, economic activity is expected to decline by seven per cent as the coronavirus outbreak severely disrupts domestic demand and supply, trade and finance activities, it said.
Incomes...
Why use conversational marketing?
Sometimes we tend to think that online marketing is something relatively new, and it even seems that the whole strategy is something revolutionary that starts from nothing. The truth...
Does every business need an app or a website to get out of the...
The economic picture that has emerged after the lifting of the restrictions on the coronavirus is not very encouraging. There are companies that are not even going to reopen.
These...
U.S. adds more than 41 million unemployment claims due to crisis
More than 2.12 million people applied for unemployment benefits in the United States last week, bringing the total number of requests in two months under the covid-19 pandemic to...
‘Business unusual:’ How COVID-19 could change the future of work
UN News spoke to Susan Hayter, a Senior Technical Adviser on the Future of Work at the Geneva-based International Labour Organization, about how COVID-19 could change our working lives.
A...