Digital lenders lure unbanked Argentines out of shadow economy

BUENOS AIRES -- María Rosales, 39, is one of millions of less affluent Argentines locked out of the traditional financial sector. The former cruise ship worker lost her job in 2015 and has relied on her family for financial support to stay afloat since.

Nintendo scores huge smartphone hit with Mario Kart Tour

NINTENDO CO. can finally claim a mega-hit smartphone game with its new Mario Kart Tour, which has been downloaded 123.9 million times in its first month and comfortably eclipsed the company’s previous mobile game debuts, Sensor Tower data showed.

Apple buys UK startup to improve iPhone picture taking

APPLE INC. acquired a UK-based startup with technology that improves photos taken on smartphones.

Spyware trade grows amid claims of targeting

THE alleged theft of data from the iPhone X used by billionaire Jeff Bezos has cast an unflattering light on the swiftly growing and highly secretive cottage industry of software developers specializing in digital surveillance.

Pandemic forces Japan’s analog businesses to turn to digital solutions

THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic may be a drag on economies across the globe, but in Japan it’s bringing long-overdue change in work habits and tools.

China’s quiet experiment let millions view long-banned websites

IN A QUIET EXPERIMENT of just two weeks, China provided millions of people access to long-forbidden foreign websites like YouTube and Instagram. The trial appears to signal the Communist government is moving toward giving the country’s citizens greater access to the global internet — while still attempting to control who sees what.

Google, Apple face off over augmented reality technology

SAN FRANCISCO -- Alphabet, Inc.’s Google on Wednesday unveiled tools to make augmented reality apps for mobile devices using the Android operating system, setting...

Advertisers, agencies combine to tackle online threat

LONDON -- Sixteen of the world’s biggest advertisers have joined together to push platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube to do more to tackle dangerous and fake content online.

SolarWinds, Microsoft, FireEye, CrowdStrike defend actions in major hack at US Senate hearing

WASHINGTON — Top executives at Texas-based software company SolarWinds Corp., Microsoft Corp. and cybersecurity firms FireEye, Inc. and CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. defended their conduct in breaches blamed on Russian hackers and sought to shift responsibility elsewhere in testimony to a US Senate panel on Tuesday.

Bitcoin 'whales' pulling cryptocurrency strings

Bitcoin, the star of the cryptocurrency world, is widely seen as a freewheeling tool as open as the internet itself. But analysts have cast doubt...

Facebook gets German data probe into voice transcriptions

FACEBOOK INC. is being probed by Hamburg’s data protection authority over transcribing audio from users of its services, adding to an investigation into Google’s automatic speech assistant.

SAP teams up on cloud sales with Microsoft

BERLIN -- Business software group SAP said on Monday it had reached a three-year deal with Microsoft to help its large enterprise customers move their business processes into the cloud.
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