Bloomberg Meta Platforms Inc. said it would notify roughly 1 million Facebook users that their account credentials may have been compromised due to security issues with apps downloaded from Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s software stores. The company announced that it identified more than 400 malicious Android and iOS apps this year that target internet users in order to ...

  Bloomberg The UK needs to cut 200,000 government jobs over the next couple of years to avoid adding billions to the national debt, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Public-sector wages are on track to increase 5% this year, around half the current rate of inflation but higher than budgeted when spending plans were drawn up in ...

  Bloomberg The US trade deficit shrank for a fifth month in August to the smallest in more than a year, reflecting a decline in the value of imports that’s poised to lend support to economic growth in the third quarter. The trade gap in goods and services narrowed by $3.1 billion, or 4.3% from a month earlier, to $67.4 ...