The 10 moments that marked the technology industry in 2022

The internet blackout in Ukraine and the start of an invasion

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine also affected services on a digital scale. After the troops began to advance physically, internet services fell. The connectivity of GigaTrans, the main Internet provider in Ukraine, was failing and many technology companies began their turn to leave Russian territory.

The blockade of the country led by Vladimir Putin caused large companies to leave Russia and many of those that did not were criticized by users. In March, some 300 companies had already left.

A red year for cryptocurrencies

In May of this year, the cryptocurrency market began to fall sharply with the collapse of Terra/Luna, and hedge fund (or portfolio management) Three Arrows Capital, hedge platform Celsius, and broker of cryptocurrency Voyager Digital.

Its most recent victim was FTX, the fourth largest cryptocurrency exchange platform in the world, which filed for bankruptcy on November 11 with damages for its clients estimated at more than 10 billion dollars and caused bitcoin to suffer a drop in which its value came to be 15,900 dollars. Recovery still looks a long way off, according to analysts.

Twitter is, after months of controversy, acquired by Elon Musk

If one event took the spotlight in 2022, it was the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk. The amount of the deal amounted to 44,000 million dollars, but also to headaches suffered by the shareholders of the social network, after the leader of Tesla decided not to finalize the initial agreement.

After declaring that Twitter was full of bots, the brand’s board of directors sued him and as the trial was about to start, Musk decided to close the deal. His first actions were to fire several high-level executives, launch his Twitter Blue subscription, lock it down again, and relaunch it. The most recent thing that has happened is the possible departure of Musk as CEO of the company, after users told him in a survey that they did not want him as the company’s leader.

Uber Files: Portraying Global Corruption

The American company Uber violated laws, misled the authorities and exerted pressure on several governments in Europe to guarantee its expansion in the region, an investigation by the British newspaper The Guardian revealed in July. Travis Kalanik, co-founder of Uber, had direct contact with Emmanuel Macron when he was French economy minister, and even mocked Joe Biden when he was vice president of the US for being late for a meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the investigation indicates.

Those involved in the Uber Files in this leak range from European leaders to Latino figures such as Mauricio Macri. In total there were 124,000 documents.

Activision Blizzard is Microsoft’s biggest purchase

Microsoft went shopping and announced the acquisition of Activision Blizzard equipment for 68.7 billion dollars. However, this purchase has been expensive for the technology company, as it has brought controversy before regulatory bodies such as the United States Chamber of Commerce, the FTC, as well as allegations from companies such as Sony, who argue that the acquisition will cause unfair competition.

Several regulators have even declared that the commercial agreement could be dissolved, but Microsoft has already declared that it is willing to go to court to defend its decision.