Technology

  Bloomberg Google said it would bring its Privacy Sandbox initiative to Android phones, vowing to chart a less “blunt” path than rival Apple Inc., whose push to protect users’ personal information has dinged the digital advertising market. The Alphabet Inc company, which relies on ads for most of its revenue, said it can protect phone users’ data while giving ...

  Bloomberg The biggest assembler of iPhones said component shortages that plagued electronics production for more than a year are showing signs of easing, a potentially encouraging signal for manufacturers across industries. There will be a major improvement in parts shortages in the first quarter, with “overall supply constraints” set to ease in the second half, James Wu, a spokesman ...

  Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co is making the biggest change to its smartphone strategy in years by reorganising around its big-selling Galaxy S and foldable Galaxy Z series of devices. The company plans to discontinue its Note lineup of stylus-equipped phones and instead distribute that capability across its portfolio while pushing premium foldables in its challenge to Apple Inc. “In ...

  Bloomberg Apple Inc confirmed plans to release its much-anticipated Tap to Pay feature on the iPhone later this year, giving merchants an alternative to Block Inc.’s Square technology. The option will let sellers accept payments through Apple Pay, credit cards and digital wallets without additional hardware, the company said in a statement. The system relies on near field communication, ...

  Bloomberg Twitter Inc’s sales jumped 22% in the fourth quarter, signalling that the social network’s digital advertising business has held up even as changes to Apple Inc.’s data-collection rules hurt some larger rivals. Sales in the holiday quarter rose to $1.57 billion, compared with $1.58 billion analysts had predicted. Revenue in the current period will be $1.17 billion to ...

  Bloomberg Sony Group Corp will continue producing PlayStation 4 consoles throughout 2022 as it navigates disruptions to the global supply chain that limited output of its pricier PlayStation 5. The Japanese conglomerate, whose flagship PS5 console has been in scarce supply since its debut in November 2020, told assembly partners that it would continue making its earlier-generation machine through ...

  Bloomberg Toshiba Corp will build a new 300-millimeter wafer fabrication plant for power semiconductors that will more than double its production capacity by March 2025, the company announced. Construction of the new facility in Ishikawa Prefecture in western Japan will take place in two phases, the company said. When the first phase is fully operational, Toshiba’s power semiconductor capacity ...

  Bloomberg Google will invest as much as $1 billion in India’s second-largest mobile phone operator, as firms race to offer inexpensive data and digital offerings in the only billion-people-plus market still open to foreign companies. Alphabet Inc, which owns the Google search engine, will pay $700 million for a 1.28% stake in Bharti Airtel Ltd., the New Delhi-based company ...

Bloomberg WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by Meta Platforms Inc, is pushing its privacy features in a new US marketing campaign that compares a standard text message to mail that was opened before it was delivered. The campaign promotes end-to-end encryption, technology that WhatsApp uses so that user messages only exist on the device where a message was sent ...

  Bloomberg Ericsson AB filed US trade complaints seeking to block imports of Apple Inc devices, escalating a legal battle that shows licensing talks between the two over 5G telecommunications technology are going poorly. In complaints filed with the US International Trade Commission in Washington, Ericsson targets a wide swath of Apple products — the iPhone, tablets, smart watches, smart ...