Naional lockdowns across Europe caused a number of serious issues for air carriers. The passengers with previously booked and even paid tickets were obstructed from traveling. The carriers suffered huge losses on top of which they had to offer refunds to customers. As time goes on many authorities have launched actions related to the lack of proper compensations.

Multiple major websites went offline briefly Tuesday after an apparent outage at the cloud service company Fastly, and there were still reports of sporadic disruptions after the company patched the problem about an hour later, AP reported. Dozens of sites including the New York Times, CNN, Twitch, Reddit, the Guardian, and the UK government’s home page, could not be reached.

The European airplane maker Airbus announced it had managed to delver 50 new jets in May, bringing the total number of produced planes to 220 units since the start of 2021, Reuters reported. Those figures put the output growth of the based in France firm at 38% compared to the same period of 2020. The 2021 deliveries included the first A380 superjumbo to Dubai's Emirates since December 2020 with only four more left to deliver.

The South Korean giant Samsung eyes the EU drive for fast introduction of 5G networks as a major possibility to increase its output growth, Reuters reported. Samsung is aiming to capitalise of the robust network construction growth as its main rival Huawei vowed to focus on its domestic operations in China after the firm was badly hurt in US and some European countries as security issues weighed on Huawei's ongoing contracts.

The high tech conglomerate Apple is in talks with two Chinese companies over the supply of batteries for the firm's electric vehicles, Reuters reported. Apple is in talks with both CATL and BYD, although real physical production of EVs is still far from beginning. Still, sources familiar with the matter have confirmed the information related to the talks. The initial negotiations are due to further clarification.

Following its most recent quarterly call with credit investors on 27 May, United Group announces a trading update for 2020 and the first quarter of 2021.

Jeff Bezos will be aboard for Blue Origin’s first human space flight next month, AP reports. In an Instagram post early Monday, Bezos said he, his brother, and the winner of an ongoing auction, will be aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft during it’s scheduled launch on 20 July.

France's competition regulator on Monday fined Google 220 million euros ($267 million) after finding it had abused its dominant market position for placing online ads, the latest move by European authorities to take tougher stances against US tech giants.

The world wealthiest countries reached an unprecedented agreement to impose minimum taxes on multinational conglomerates, BBC reported. The deal was struck during a meeting of financial ministers of the G7 countries in London. The group of advanced economies has reached a "historic" deal, UK's financial minister, Rishi Sunak said. Finance ministers meeting in London agreed to commit to the principle of a minimum corporate tax rate of 15%.

The social network Facebook announced new puntitive measures related to US President Donald Trump, Reuters reported. Facebook elaborated it had taken decision to suspend the account of Trump until at least January 2023. Facebook initially froze Trump's account the day after the deadly 6 Jan Capitol Hill riot that accelerated to violent clashes with fatalities.