WhatsApp is introducing a “disappearing messages” option that will erase chats from the phone of both the sender and recipient after seven days. The Facebook-owned app, which has two billion

In an unusual move midway through its fiscal year, Nintendo Co. increased its financial forecasts as consumers stuck at home during the pandemic lifted demand for games and the Switch

Twitter has lifted a freeze on the New York Post newspaper’s account, the United States-based social media company said on Friday, after a backlash from legislators. The company said it

The streaming media company is raising the prices on its standard and premium plans for US customers. Its standard plan is now $14 a month, up $1 a month from

Business is booming for America’s tech giants. Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google reported sales and profits figures on Thursday covering the three months to September 30 – and there was

  Italy’s antitrust said on Wednesday it was probing Google GOOGL.O for a possible abuse of dominant position in the Italian market of display advertising. The regulator said that thanks

Microsoft’s cloud computing business slightly re-accelerated and its Teams messaging and collaboration software won new users, as a pandemic-driven shift to working from home and online learning drove quarterly results

Facebook Inc may face US anti-trust charges as soon as November, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing four people familiar with the matter. The Federal Trade Commission met privately

Lee Kun-hee, the charismatic leader of Samsung Group, South Korea’s biggest conglomerate, died on Sunday, the company said, six years after he was hospitalised for a heart attack. Lee, who

Instagram has apologized for wrongly labelling posts in support of Nigeria’s #EndSARS protests as false. On Wednesday, Facebook and Instagram flagged posts about the protests and Tuesday night’s shootings of

Huawei Technologies Co. quietly spent months racing to stockpile critical radio chips ahead of Trump administration sanctions, ensuring it can keep supplying Chinese carriers in their $170 billion rollout of

Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it has invested $100 million in opening new warehouses in Mexico, including its first shipping centers outside the populous capital area, in a bid to

 International Business Machines Corp edged past Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Monday, bolstered by higher demand for its cloud computing services from companies speeding up their digital shift

US aerospace manufacturer SpaceX has launched 60 internet satellites from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. According to Space.com a Falcon-9 rocket lifted off carrying the Starlink satellites from the center on

Toshiba Corp. said on Monday it aims to generate $3 billion in revenue from its advanced cryptographic technology for data protection by 2030, as the Japanese sprawling conglomerate scrambles to

Youtube has announced a $100 million fund to support and amplify the work of Black YouTube creators from African countries including Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa. The fund, called the

Facebook’s Instagram has agreed measures to crack down on hidden advertising by so-called influencers on its photo and video platform, Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said recently. Influencers with

US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has said the “future rests in renewable energy” as he put distance between his clean energy goals and the Green New Deal. At a

Boeing Starliner engineers and technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center recently installed the base heat shield to the Orbital Flight Test-2 spacecraft. The base heat shield protects the reusable Starliner

Nigerian payments startup Paystack has been acquired by US-based payments giant, Stripe in a $200 million -range deal. That makes this the biggest startup acquisition to date to come out