Apple is initiating a soft launch of a new feature in its iPhone Wallet app, leveraging the United Kingdom's Open Banking API. The integration allows the Wallet app to display users' current bank account balances, as well as a history of deposits and payments. This feature aims to enhance financial awareness by showing balances inline...
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick announced in an internal email that the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued preliminary approval for the company's planned merger with Microsoft. The approval is based on solutions that Microsoft presented in its new merger application. "This approval is critical to completing our merger," said Kotick on Thursday....
The UK has decided to postpone the use of contentious powers proposed in an online safety bill, which would scan messaging apps for harmful content, until a viable technology is developed. Critics have continuously voiced concerns that these measures pose significant threats to user privacy. Addressing the House of Lords, Lord Stephen Parkinson, the junior...
Emergency SOS via Satellite lets users message emergency services and share their location via the Find My app even when there's no cellular or Wi-Fi coverage
"People are suffering with the cost-of-living crisis. We need a pay rise, pay transparency and a voice," said one retail employee at the Glasgow Apple store.
"Without interventions, both companies are likely to maintain, and even strengthen, their grip over the sector," said the Competition and Markets Authority.
The NHS has already begun building a second smartphone app to trace the spread of the coronavirus, after criticism of the first app it launched this week on the Isle of Wight.
