Apple sold more than half of the smart watches or smartwatches marketed worldwide during the first six months of this year 2020, with a growth of 22% and ahead of other brands such as Garmin and Huawei. The global smartwatch market grew by 20% worldwide during the first half of 2020, 9% in Europe,…
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Sudeban called to monitor the AirTM platform

This week, the Superintendency of Institutions of the Banking Sector (Sudeban) in Venezuela called for monitoring the AirTM digital payment platform. After learning the blockade to access the AirTm platform, the measure – according to both…

UK debt exceeds 2 billion pounds

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The US again exceeds one million weekly layoffs

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Japan’s exports keep falling

Exports from Japan reached a value of almost 45,000 million dollars last July, which represents a year-on-year fall of 19.2%, as a consequence of the sharp decline in sales to the United States (-19.5%) and Western Europe (-32.5%), despite…

Instagram launches QR function to locate users

Instagram introduced the new function of QR codes that can be generated and shared by users themselves and that allows them to directly access profiles more quickly through the camera and third-party scanner applications. The application's…

Epic Games will no longer be at Apple

Epic Games, the video game developer responsible for multiplayer Fortnite, recently removed from the App Store and Google Play, said that Apple will remove its developer accounts on iOS and Mac on August 28. This measure comes after the…

Huawei faces new US restrictions

The United States government intensified pressure on the Chinese telecommunications manufacturer Huawei by expanding the scope of the restrictions applied to the access of the Asian company to the production and supply of microprocessors.…

Japan’s GDP fell 7.8% during the second quarter

Japan's economy suffered an unprecedented contraction between April and June, registering a 7.8% drop in gross domestic product (GDP) compared to the first quarter of the year, when it had fallen by 0.6%, representing the largest loss of…