Meta Platforms Inc., the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has added three more new privacy features to WhatsApp in its bid to enhance control and privacy on the popular messaging app. These features will give the user more control over their messages with added interlocking layers of protection. The […]

After moving mostly higher early in the session, stocks have seen further upside over the course of the trading day on Wednesday. The major averages are rebounding following the pullback seen over the two previous sessions, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq reaching its best intraday level in almost three months. Currently, […]

Microsoft has become the first global Big Tech company to join the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), an Indian government initiative for developing a first-of-its-kind open network for digital commerce. The world’s second-largest technology firm intends to introduce social e-commerce via its app in the Indian market later this […]

(CNN)Ford on Thursday will once again begin taking orders for its popular F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck. But this time the base model of the pickup will cost about $7,000 more than before. When the Lightning first went on sale, the Pro version — the base model intended mostly as […]

Fueled in part by low interest rates and an influx of pandemic relief funds, demand for housing surged in the United States over the last two years. Inventory could not keep pace, as new construction was hobbled by rising commodity prices and supply constraints. As a result, home values rose […]

Jane Lynch will depart Broadway’s Funny Girl even earlier than expected, producers announced today. The former Glee actor will end her run as “Mrs. Brice” on Sunday, August 14, several weeks earlier than the Sept. 4 date most recently announced (that date, too, was earlier than the originally planned Sept. […]

Homicides were up by nearly 30% in the United States in 2020, the largest single-year increase on record. The surge in deadly violence capped a decade in which the national murder rate was already trending upward.  Over the 10-year period from 2011 to 2020, the number of murders reported in […]

Axios, the digital media startup covering politics, technology and media, has agreed to be purchased by Cox Enterprises, the communications, automotive and media company. The value of the deal for Axios Media was $525 million, according to a source familiar with the transaction and other reports. Cox Enterprises bought a […]

London (CNN Business)Australian airline Qantas has asked its senior executives to help out as airport baggage handlers as it struggles to manage a staff shortage. The airline has called on at least 100 senior staff to join its outsourced ground handling teams at Sydney and Melbourne airports for three months. […]

Hong Kong’s economy contracted unexpectedly in the second quarter on weak exports and investment, the advance estimates from the Census and Statistics Department showed Monday. Gross domestic product contracted 1.4 percent from the last year, following a 3.9 percent fall in the first quarter. Economists had forecast an annual expansion […]