Bloomberg considers how the pandemic changing the tech industry, including how employees are responding to extended stay-at-home policies.

Microsoft has agreed to buy Metaswitch Networks, which provides software to telecommunications companies to help them deliver voice and data services to their customers, CNBC reports.

Over the next several months, Google's Chrome browser will start blocking resource-heavy ads, Venture Beat reports.

Facebook is partnering up with some top telcos, including China Mobile International and MTN GlobalConnect to build the "most comprehensive" subsea cable to serve the African continent and Middle East region, TechCrunch reports.

Brian Huseman, Amazon's vice president of public policy, is calling on Congress to pursue a federal price gouging law, CNBC reports.

The next version of Google's Chrome will let used organize tabs into customizable groups, Engadget reports.

Online retailers are seeing Black Friday-like sales due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their business, TechCrunch reports, citing data from Adobe's Digital Economy Index.

Although it is planning to bring back employees in stages over the next few months, Apple will soon reopen its offices, Business Insider reports, citing a report in Bloomberg.

Instagram is giving users the ability to control who can tag or mention them in comments, captions, or Stories as well as the ability to delete comments in bulk, 9To5Mac reports.

Year-over-year, smartphone shipments from China's factories to vendors rose 17% in April, Reuters reports.