Year: 2022

Apple, Amazon and Google say the bipartisan legislation barring tech platforms from favoring their own products could disrupt popular services for businesses and consumers.

Holiday travel helped major U.S. carriers bring in more revenue at the end of last year than any quarter since the pandemic began. But U.S. airlines lost money and have said Omicron and a surge of cases have temporarily dimmed their prospects.

Microsoft described the $75 billion acquisition of videogame giant as a pathway to the metaverse, a future vision of the internet that is the subject of growing hype.

Verizon and AT&T began providing much of the service, while airlines prepare for potential cancellations and regulators work to clear aircraft to operate in certain conditions.

The carrier is scaling back its flight schedule for early this year amid a falloff in demand, but says the setback will be temporary.

Meta Platforms’ Instagram is launching trials of a subscription service that enables creators to charge users for exclusive content, as social-media companies battle to attract individuals who can drive traffic to their platforms.