Netflix to Charge Extra on Password Sharing
Streaming giant Netflix will begin its crackdown on password sharing in the first quarter of this year, after the release of its company earnings report to shareholders last week. The practice of sharing passwords with people outside the subscriber’s household will become more complex and is likely to involve an additional fee to share a […]
Trump Will Return to the Meta Facebook Platform after Two Years of Ban
Social media giant Meta announced it will end a two-year suspension of former US President Donald Trump from its Facebook and Instagram platforms. Calling the suspension an “extraordinary decision made in extraordinary circumstances,” Meta issued a press release on its website Wednesday saying it would allow Trump to return to his platforms “in the coming […]
Microsoft Invests $10 Billion in ChatGPT Maker OpenAI
Microsoft is investing $10 billion ($14 billion) $US in OpenAI, whose artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT has lit up the internet since its introduction in November, racking up more than a million users in a matter of days and sparking a new debate about AI’s role in the workplace. The new support, based on $US1 billion […]
Apple Gets a Boost in India as Chinese Suppliers Receive Authorization
More than a dozen Chinese suppliers from Apple Inc. are receiving initial authorization from India to expand in the country, helping the tech giant’s efforts to diversify its assembly network beyond China. AirPods and iPhone assembler Luxshare Precision Industry Co. and a unit of lens maker Sunny Optical Technology Group Co. are among the companies […]
China’s Imports of ICs Fell in 2022 for the First Time Since 2004
China’s imports of integrated circuits (ICs), another term for chips, fell 15.3 percent in volume in 2022 from a year earlier, a sharp reversal from strong growth in the previous two years amid supply chain disruptions as a result of the country’s zero Covid approach and U.S. export restrictions. China imported 538.4 billion units of […]
Tesla Nears Deal to Build Plant in Indonesia
Tesla is nearing a preliminary deal to build production facilities in Indonesia with a capacity of one million units, Bloomberg News reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. On Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk commented in a tweet referencing the report, saying, “Please be careful when writing articles that cite ‘anonymous sources,’ as they are […]
Meta Oversight Board Approves Posts Saying “Death to” Iran’s Leader
The Oversight Board of Meta Platforms Inc. reversed the decision to remove a Facebook post that used the slogan “death to Khamenei” to criticize Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as not violating a rule prohibiting violent threats. The board, which is funded by Meta but operates independently, said that in the context of the […]
Google Accuses India Watchdog of Copy-Pasting EU’s Android Ruling
Google has told a court in India that the country’s antitrust investigators copied parts of a European ruling against the U.S. firm for abusing the market dominance of its Android operating system, arguing that the decision should be overturned, legal documents show. The Indian Competition Commission (ICC) in October fined Alphabet Inc’s Google $161 million […]
Apple Looks Beyond China’s ‘iPhone Factory’ as Flirtation Sour
Taipei, Taiwan – Scenes of chaos erupted at Apple supplier Foxconn’s mega factory in Zhengzhou, China, last month as workers, angered by COVID-19 quarantine and unpaid wages, scuffled with security personnel. The unprecedented protests in “iPhone City” have caused significant delays for the latest iPhone models at the end of the year, Apple’s busiest sales […]
Mobile Payments Outperform Debit Cards in Argentina
Mobile payments are thriving in Argentina, leaving behind other traditional payment methods, including credit and debit cards. According to the central bank’s monthly report on retail payments, this type of payment has thrived, accounting for 60% of payment transactions made, while plastic-based means of payment have stagnated, registering a drop in usage. Mobile Payments Keep […]