Technology

Bloomberg Google’s results, showing a surge in ad sales related to travel and retail, offered a glimpse of online spending in a post-pandemic world: Businesses are boosting digital marketing to capture a public eager to resume something resembling normal life again. Google parent Alphabet Inc. said first-quarter revenue, excluding payments ...

Bloomberg Microsoft Corp reported quarterly sales and profit that topped analysts’ estimates for a ninth straight quarter, lifted by booming cloud-computing demand. This time, investors weren’t satisfied. Sales in the period ended March 31 rise to $41.7 billion, the Redmond, Washington-based software maker said in a statement. That compared with ...

Bloomberg Twitter Inc tumbled 13% after the social media company posted a sluggish start to the year in its advertising business and gave a disappointing revenue forecast, a sign the social media service hasn’t fully capitalized on the digital advertising boom amid the pandemic like companies such as Facebook Inc. ...

Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co.’s revenue shrank for a second straight quarter after US sanctions devastated the embattled Chinese tech giant’s smartphone business. Huawei reported a 17% decline in sales to $23 billion in first three months of this year, the company said in a statement. That follows a 11% decline ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc. unveiled an updated iPad Pro with a faster processor, 5G connectivity, upgraded screen and new cameras, offering a more powerful version of its priciest tablet aimed at workers and students returning to offices and schools. The new models come in the same 11-inch and 12.9-inch screen sizes ...

Bloomberg TikTok faces a London lawsuit filed on behalf of millions of children in the UK and Europe over privacy concerns. The suit accuses the popular video app and its parent company ByteDance Ltd. of violating UK and European Union (EU) data protection laws. The suit seeks to stop TikTok ...

Bloomberg Microsoft Corp. and video-game chat company Discord Inc. have ended takeover talks after Discord rejected a $12 billion bid, according to people familiar with the matter. Discord is now focused on a potential public listing in the long term, the people said, asking not to be identified because the ...

Bloomberg The European Union (EU) is poised to ban artificial intelligence systems used for mass surveillance or for ranking social behaviour, while companies developing AI could face fines as high as 4% of global revenue if they fail to comply with new rules governing the software applications. The rules are ...

Bloomberg Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract chipmaker, warned for the first time that trade tensions may disrupt its access to key production equipment and hit its operations, amid increasing friction between the US and China. The company, which produces semiconductors for Apple Inc. and other major global ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc has been a laggard in the smart-home space, but a versatile new device in early development could change that. The company is working on a product that would combine an Apple TV set-top box with a HomePod speaker and include a camera for video conferencing via a ...