The software giant paying vastly over the odds for a small but strategically threatening company should alarm US regulators

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk blamed overreliance on factory robots for sending the electric carmaker to "production hell" four years ago, saying humans were better at certain jobs.

Should you be monitoring your work-from-home employees? Yes, but not for the reasons you might suspect. According to a recent report in the New York Times, eight of the 10 largest private US employers are using software and other technologies to track the productivity of their employees in the office and at home.

Amazon is running out of time to answer allegations from an American watchdog that it unlawfully suppressed labor organizers at one of its warehouses in New York. If unable to mount a defense against charges [PDF] from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the internet mega-corp will be forced to tear up its rules on what staff can and can't do in break rooms and other non-work areas on Amazon property. Rules such as, you guessed it, not putting up pro-union posters.

With costs rising, wages stagnant, and global uncertainty delaying any strong recoveries, people are having a rough time financially at the moment. In the world of the financial elite, where billions are made and lost from day to day, some people are feeling the sting, too. Mark Zuckerberg, one of the better-known billionaires and a regular on the top 10 list of the world's richest, has managed to lose half of his net worth since the first of January. While you're unlikely to see Zuckerberg skipping a mortgage payment or lining up at a food bank, he is still an astonishing $70 billion down since December 2021.

SoftBank Group Corp founder and CEO Masayoshi Son said on Thursday he plans to meet with Samsung Electronics to discuss a potential "strategic alliance" between the South Korean tech giant and chip designer Arm.

Apple currently produces some ‌iPhone‌ models in India, including the iPhone 13 and soon the iPhone 14. Apple's supply chain remains highly concentrated in China, but the company has made efforts to move suppliers and production lines elsewhere.

Your iPhone may contain gold linked to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. A new report from Amazon Watch and the Association of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples (APIB) published Monday reveals that the gold used by major tech and car companies including Apple, Tesla, Samsung, Microsoft, Intel, Sony, Volkswagen, Ford and General Motors could have been mined illegally from Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon.

Meta is facing a new proposed class action lawsuit that accuses it of tracking and collecting the personal data of iPhone users, despite features and policies made by Apple which are meant to stop that same type of tracking.

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a sweeping lawsuit Wednesday against former President Donald Trump, his three eldest children and the Trump Organization in connection with her yearslong civil investigation into the company’s business practices.

California will be the first state to require online companies to put kids' safety first by barring them from profiling children or using personal information in ways that could harm children physically or mentally, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday.

A Tesla owner has revealed that when he was locked out of his high tech car, he was told he'd have to fork out $26,000 for a new battery. Mario Zelaya, from Canada, took to TikTok to explain the situation, slamming his $140,000 Tesla vehicle as a 'piece of trash' after the car automatically locked itself when the battery died.

Google faces a €25bn (£21.6bn) lawsuit in the UK and EU that accuses the tech firm of anticompetitive conduct in the digital advertising market. The company, which is a key player in the online ad market as well as being a dominant force in search, is accused of abusing its power in the ad tech market, which coordinates the sale of online advertising space between publishers and advertisers.

Samsung Electronics refreshed its environmental strategy, earmarking more than KRW7 trillion ($5 billion) for green initiatives by 2030, targeting net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and joining RE100, a global renewable energy initiative. The company stated the investment will go to researching new technologies to develop energy-efficient products, increase water reuse and foster carbon capture techniques.

Adobe announced Thursday morning that it will acquire design software firm Figma in a deal worth about $20 billion in cash and stock. Figma, founded in 2012, creates cloud-based design software that allows teams to collaborate in real time. It competes head-to-head with Adobe’s XD program.

Patagonia boldly announced that all of its profits will be donated towards fighting climate change.

In a strange turn of fate, it seems that Newegg somehow has too many 30-series graphics cards. Right now, you can get a free 24-inch 1080p gaming monitor when you buy an RTX 3060 for $399.99. Another solid offer bundles a free 27-inch curved QHD monitor with a purchase of an RTX 3070 for $599.99. A deal like this is tough to beat; even if you don’t need the monitor, you’re still getting a 30-series graphics card at close to retail price, which was damn near impossible a year ago.

Medtronic placed a $2.6 million order for some of the company’s instruments and cameras, and its interest in Titan should help the smaller firm as it seeks to win approval for its device and market it globally.

The European Commission proposed on Wednesday an EU ban on products made using forced labour with legislation that will add to existing U.S. pressure on China, but will likely change before it enters force.

Activision Blizzard is at the center of an investigation that has changed the gaming industry. Here's what you need to know about this historic event.