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“Secure Your Private Messages with WhatsApp’s Latest Account Protection and Verification Features”

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The chat and messaging service WhatsApp wants to make private conversations more secure and offers various security features, including account protection, device verification and automatic security codes. WhatsApp offers standard end-to-end encryption to protect personal messages. There are also other new features for data protection and more control. On April 13, 2023, the chat and … Read more

Infineon starts building a new chip factory in Dresden with an investment of 5 billion euros

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Infineon Technologies AG (ISIN: DE0006231004) announced today that it has started construction of a new factory for analog/mixed-signal technologies and power semiconductors. The Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) has approved the early start of the project. The location for the new semiconductor factory is Dresden.Subject to the state aid decision of the … Read more

Goodbye to Vialli, Mancini’s pain: ‘I lose a brother, I dreamed of a miracle’ – Sport

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“It is a great loss, for me, for his family first of all and for all of Italian football. I lose a brother, I was hoping for a miracle“. Roberto Mancini expresses his pain the day after the death of his ‘twin’ Vialli in an interview conducted and disseminated by the FIGC. “We met, we … Read more

Pinterest: Social media and marketing platform slides deeper into the red, revenue growth continues to slow, user count falls

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SAN FRANCISCO (IT-Times) – The online pinboard, photo and video-sharing platform Pinterest today released its results for the second quarter of fiscal 2022, showing renewed slower growth. – Pinterest stock quarterly results Pinterest Inc. (NYSE: PINS, ISIN: US72352L1061) was able to increase sales in the second quarter of fiscal 2022 compared to the same period … Read more

WhatsApp introduces Communities feature and more structured group chats with admin control

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WhatsApp, the chat and instant messenger platform from Meta Platforms Inc. (Nasdaq: FB), announced on April 14, 2022 that it would release another feature, “Communities”. It’s a major update to the WhatsApp messaging app that will allow users not only to connect privately with friends and family as they have up until now, but also … Read more

Meta Platforms: Lawsuit over use of facial recognition software without user consent could be very expensive

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Another lawsuit has now been filed against Meta Platforms Inc. (Nasdaq: FB). The plaintiff is the US state of Texas, which is citing the company in court for collecting facial recognition data without consent. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges that Facebook’s parent company illegally collected biometric data from users on servers without their consent, … Read more

Facebook becomes the umbrella brand Meta: What is behind the name change

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The internet and technology group Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq; FB), to which the communication platforms Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp as well as Oculus also belong, wants to form under the name Meta in the future. – – In this context, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg describes Facebook as a “company for social technology”. Yesterday he presented … Read more

CATL: BYD rival grabs Canadian millennial lithium for 377 million Canadian dollars

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Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. – CATL for short -, China’s largest producer of lithium-ion batteries for automobiles and a competitor of the BYD company, takes over Millennial Lithium Corp. A final agreement was reached on September 28, 2021. The Canadian company is being acquired as part of a cash offer for 377 million Canadian … Read more

Tencent opens chat and messenger service WeChat to competitors

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Previously, WeChat, Tencent Holdings’ super app, suspended new user registrations in mainland China, saying it was for “security reasons.” – – Tencent has now announced that it will be easier to share links to other offers and websites on WeChat in the future. Alibaba listings will soon also be integrated or shared in the chat … Read more

Facebook: EU fines chat and messenger WhatsApp to € 225 million for GDPR violations

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PALO ALTO / CALIFORNIA (IT-Times) – The chat and messaging service WhatsApp, which belongs to the empire of the social media giant Facebook, has been fined by the European Union (EU). – WhatsApp, the instant messaging service from Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB), has to pay a fine of 225 million euros or around 265 million … Read more