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Information technology (IT) firms that outsource American jobs to foreign workers through the H-1B visa continue to pay below-average wages, new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data show.

Twitter and Amazon’s massive earnings disappointments Thursday shocked Wall Street and bashed the tech indexes that have been hitting incredible all-time-highs over the last month.

A California-based businesswoman who runs an outsourcing firm to replace American tech workers pleaded guilty to H-1B visa fraud.

A total of 200 American manufacturing jobs will be outsourced to Germany as another plant shutters.

Back in April, we began hearing that Microsoft was in the process of buying Israeli cloud startup Cloudyn, a company that helps customers manage their cloud billing across multiple clouds.

Microsoft held their E3 press conference this weekend, unveiling a number of new games and the long awaited Project Scorpio console.

U.S. stock markets charged to record highs last week, but a Goldman Sachs downgrade knocked down the so called FAAMG tech stocks that have led the Trump stock boom.

Tech leaders across Silicon Valley have attacked President Trump for his recent decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord.

Bank of America just warned that America’s next social justice movement will be “Occupy Silicon Valley,” which will demand a redistribution of wealth from liberal tech moguls to workers.

Microsoft withheld a free patch from old software users that “could have slowed the devastating spread of ransomware WannaCry to businesses,” opting to charge those using older machines instead, according to a report.

The impact of the WannaCry virus attack has been limited in the United States so far, although security analysts fear that could change in the coming days. The virus has been running wild across Europe and Asia, inflicting an untold amount of financial damage and putting lives in danger, since one of the biggest targets was Britain’s National Health System. Following are 15 important facts about WannaCry, including tips on how to protect vulnerable systems.

Microsoft blamed this past week’s global cyber attack on leaked NSA code, before warning the U.S. government to start storing cyber weapons properly.

Interns at top technology companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon, earn more money than the average American, according to a new report.

In the age of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on the H-1B and strict enforcement of immigration law, tech conglomerates are lobbying the Congress and White House for amnesty and more foreign labor.

Webroot’s antivirus service accidentally misidentified core parts of Microsoft Windows as threats to the rest of the computer, shutting down thousands of customer’s systems on Monday evening.

President Donald Trump’s power to appoint a majority of the Federal Trade Commission’s members and the agency’s Chairman may usher in aggressive enforcement of anti-trust laws against several Silicon Valley tech giants.

Reuters has found that more than 15 percent of Facebook’s U.S. staff are immigrants employed through H-1B temporary work visas.

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has begun a new venture, a supposedly nonpartisan group known as USAFacts which aims to track the spending of federal funds.

WikiLeaks has reached out to tech companies including Apple, Google, and Microsoft to assist them in patching the zero-day exploits revealed in the CIA Vault 7 leaks, but are insisting that their demands are met before they provide further information.

Windows 7 and 8.1 users with newer computer processors will no longer receive updates to their operating systems due to Microsoft’s support policy changes.

Microsoft has taken the next step in pushing advertising on customers of its Windows 10 operating system, with users reporting an advertisement for Microsoft OneDrive now appearing in their File Explorer.

(Reuters) — A variety of online services from Microsoft Corp suffered outages for several hours on Tuesday across Western Europe and the Eastern United States, according to the company’s technical support sites.

Microsoft announced a new subscription program that will give access to a significant portion of its back catalog, and Wall Street apparently took it as a bad omen for brick-and-mortar retailer GameStop.

“European Union data protection authorities” continue to have “privacy-related concerns” about Windows 10, according to Tech Crunch, despite the fact that Microsoft tweaked their operating system last year following similar concerns.

Microsoft will reportedly bypass the 2017 launch of HoloLens 2 in order to accelerate progress toward 2019’s Version 3.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella claimed that his company must display “enduring values” in response to President Trump’s administration.

Many of the technology giants who condemn President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration donated to Trump’s inauguration, according to a report from POLITICO.

A leading Indian software entrepreneur says Indian companies must accept President Donald Trump’s pro-American policies and must start hiring Americans instead of sending Indian white-collar H-1B visa workers into American job sites.

Tech giants across Silicon Valley, such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Netflix, have come out in opposition of President Donald Trump’s temporary halt on refugees from certain countries entering the United States.

Two members of Microsoft’s Online Safety Team are suing the company, citing post-traumatic stress and auditory hallucinations after being made to filter through and remove videos and pictures of child porn, murder, and bestiality as part of their job.

Microsoft has officially confirmed the cancellation of Platinum Games’ dragon action-RPG Scalebound after four years of development.

Israeli private high-tech companies, a main driver of the country’s economy, raised an all-time high of $4.8 billion in 2016, up 11 percent from 2015, a report showed on Tuesday.

Despite expectations that the “next big thing” would premiere at the pre-opening for the 50th Anniversary of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it seems the latest tech innovations are struggling to live up to all the hype.

Microsoft has applied for a patent on technology that would allow potential augmented reality devices to keep track of real-world objects in their vicinity.

An analyst has predicted that Microsoft will become the world’s first company to reach a value of $1 trillion.

Microsoft Chief Marketing Officer Chris Capossela admitted that the Windows 10 upgrade campaign, which bombarded users with invasive notifications and reminder screens to upgrade their operating system, went too far.