JAKARTA -- Facebook Inc.’s messaging service WhatsApp is in talks with multiple Indonesian digital payment firms to offer their mobile transaction services, in a bid to tap the nation’s fast growing e-commerce sector, people familiar with the matter said.

MICROSOFT Corp. said on Monday it will use chipmaker Nvidia Corp.’s real-time ray tracing technology to provide the software company’s Minecraft video game players more realistic graphics on personal computers.

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO -- Alphabet Inc.’s Google has shut down a service it provided to wireless carriers globally that showed them weak spots in their network coverage, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, because of Google’s concerns that sharing data from users of its Android phone system might attract the scrutiny of users and regulators.

IN A BID to develop the local analogue and experimental photography scene, Vienna-based alternative photography company Lomography announced that retail and business solutions firm Altitude Technologies Inc. (ATI) will become the brand’s sole official distributor in the Philippines.

VARYING smartphone brands barely affect the mobile network experience of phone users in the Philippines, but high-tier units beat mid- and low-tier ones in terms of network speed.

BEIJING/HONG KONG -- ByteDance, the owner of short-video app TikTok, has launched a new search engine in China, entering a sector currently dominated by Baidu Inc.

THE VIDEO GAME industry -- responding to criticism that in-game purchases can amount to gambling or tempt kids into overspending -- is changing its policies.

WEIFANG, CHINA -- Charging elderly clients just 1 yuan or about 15 cents a day, little-known Lanchuang Network Technology Corp. has embarked on one of the most ambitious undertakings in aged care by a private sector firm in China.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Monday announced that it would neutralize carbon emissions from delivering consumer hardware by next year and include recycled plastic in each of its products by 2022.

SHANGHAI -- Chinese gaming companies, including giants Tencent and NetEase, unveiled new titles at an industry meet that show off socialist values and patriotic themes amid stricter state censorship and a push to back Communist Party propaganda.

APPLE INC. rolled out its virtual credit card on Tuesday, working with bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on the new iPhone add-on that may help Apple diversify from device sales and build out the Wall Street bank’s new consumer business.

VIDEO GAME publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. raised its full-year revenue forecast on Monday, boosted by the success of its games NBA 2K, Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2.