Brazil’s central bank approved Meta Platforms‘ payments launch for small and medium-sized business in Brazil via its messaging application WhatsApp, building on the app’s existing local peer-to-peer payment system. The approval comes as Meta seeks to use the Brazilian market as a key test space for business messaging, an area that has assumed greater urgency […]

Tech giant Apple has released its second beta of iOS 16.4 to developers, and code in the update revealed that the company is still working on its classical music application. According to code in the beta, users will have to install the standard Apple Music app in order to listen to “Apple Music Classical“, reports

Chip-maker Qualcomm will ship its Apple Silicon-competing chip next year. At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023, Qualcomm CEO and President Cristiano Amon revealed that Apple will produce its own 5G modems in the iPhone 16, reports AppleInsider, citing sources. “Our SoC and custom CPUs, you should think of it as an Apple compete for the

The US Marshals Service (USMS) suffered a ransomware security breach this month that compromised sensitive law enforcement information, a spokesman said. The Marshals Service notified the US Department of Justice to the breach, and agents there began a forensic investigation, Drew Wade, chief of the Marshals Service public affairs office, told Reuters in an email.

China will step up the management of short videos as part of efforts to prevent children from becoming addicted to them, the National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) said. “Create a clean space for short videos, improve the level of protection of minors, and play a subtle and positive role in cultivating sentiment, enlightening minds,

The U.S. government said on Friday it was formally ending its effort to stop Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc from buying virtual reality (VR) content maker Within Unlimited. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which lost a fight in court to block the acquisition, said in a filing that it has decided to formally end its

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co plans to construct a second chip plant in Japan to manufacture 5 and 10 nanometre chips from the second half of the decade, the Nikkan Kogyo newspaper reported. That decision could help Japan revive advanced semiconductor manufacturing, which it sees as key requirement for future economic growth driven by new digital

The U.S. Justice Department is preparing an antitrust lawsuit to block software maker Adobe Inc‘s $20 billion bid for cloud-based designer platform Figma, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The lawsuit could come as early as next month, Bloomberg reported. Responding to the report, Adobe said it and Figma were

Lucid Group Inc said it expects to make at least 10,000 cars this year, as the company looks to capture a larger chunk of the electric-vehicle market amid a price war started by Tesla Inc. Lucid expects to produce 10,000 to 14,000 of its luxury electric vehicles in 2023, up from 7,180 cars it made

EU antitrust regulators have set a March 28 deadline for their decision on Alphabet unit Google‘s acquisition of Croatian maths app Photomath, according to a European Commission filing. The EU competition enforcer can clear the deal with or without remedies after its preliminary review or open a four-month investigation if it has serious concerns. “We