SINGAPORE — For decades, Macao’s economic proposition was exceptionally simple: casinos, tourists and proximity to the Chinese mainland. Sam Hou Fai, the chief executive of Macao SAR, is trying to make it considerably more complicated. In an exclusive interview with Caixin Global during his first official visit to Sout
PayPal has paused its planned sale of its venture capital portfolio after offers came in at no higher than 60 cents on the dollar, Seeking Alpha reported Friday (Sept. 4), citing a paywalled article by Axios that was based on unnamed sources. The investments in PayPal’s portfolio include shopping app Tabby and crypto p
An Apple event scheduled for Wednesday (Sept. 9), Surprise and Shine, will mark the beginning of the longest series of device releases in the company’s history, Bloomberg reported Friday (Sept. 4). The wave will continue through 2029 and beyond, and it will include new product areas, according to the report. Many of th
For banks seeking a larger share of their commercial customers’ operating cash, new federal deposit rules may help those efforts. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s interim final rule, adopted Aug. 27 and effective Tuesday (Sept. 1), substantially increases the amount of reciprocal deposits that qualifying banks can
Learn how to deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant that takes customer orders through text, voice notes, and real-time voice calls on a single business number, built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Amazon Nova 2. The channel and ordering layers stay separate, and one shared memory recognizes each customer ac
Merchants can now use one Yuno connection to add Revolut’s biometric one-click checkout, Revolut Pay, as well as Revolut’s acquiring and gateway services, Yuno said in a Thursday (Sept. 3) press release. The offering is enabled by a new partnership of Yuno and Revolut Business, according to the release. The partnership
Audacity 4 has been in the works for some time, and had its own mini controversy last year when an unfortunate redesigned logo started making the rounds. The final version of the new icon isn't nearly as bad as the early rendition that was circulating last October. But more importantly, all the promised improvements to
Bitcoin Magazine Hargreaves Lansdown Reverses Course, Rolls Out Bitcoin Trading British investment firm Hargreaves Lansdown last year said bitcoin was too volatile. This post Hargreaves Lansdown Reverses Course, Rolls Out Bitcoin Trading first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Mathew Di Salvo.
This week, GitHub Copilot expands model choice and content protections, while VS Code adds new ways to manage agent sessions and get pull requests merge-ready. GitHub Copilot, general Claude Fable… The post GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 31 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Worldwide chip sales in July up 135.1% year-to-year; year-to-date sales through July exceed highest-ever annual total WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2026 – The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced global semiconductor sales were $146.8 billion during the month of July 2026, an increase of 6.4% compared to the
Brazilian digital bank PicPay has begun rolling out an integration with Anthropic’s Claude that enables PicPay customers to check financial information in Claude by using natural-language commands. The integration with Claude will be rolled out gradually to customers on an early-access list, and it will be free to Andr