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☆ Apple to Support Messaging Standard, Easing Google Conflict Over Green Text Bubbles
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Sarah E. Needleman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In the U.S., Apple’s iPhone made up 47.6% of the smartphone market, according to IDC. Photo: Manaure Quintero/Bloomberg NewsApple plans to support a standard that will improve messaging with Android phones and enable new features, helping quell the blue-bubble/green-bubble debate around texts. Google has long pushed for Apple to adopt a communication protocol called rich communications systems, or RCS, that aims to replace traditional text messaging with more robust industrywide chat features. Such a change could help ease a stigma for users of its Android operating system.

Persons: Manaure Quintero Organizations: IDC, Bloomberg, Apple, Google Locations: U.S

The corporate logo of software company Adobe is seen in Posa Studio school in Caracas, Venezuela October 9, 2019. The European Commission is readying a statement of objections to send to the companies in the coming days, the people said. Such documents or charge sheets set out the EU competition watchdog's concerns on why deals could be anti-competitive. The Commission and Adobe, which can offer remedies to stave off the EU warning, declined to comment. Some companies prefer to wait for a statement of objections so that they know the precise regulatory worries before they offer concessions.

Persons: Manaure Quintero, Foo Yun Chee, Susan Fenton Organizations: Adobe, REUTERS, Rights, Tech, European, Video Communications, Thomson Locations: Caracas, Venezuela, Rights BRUSSELS, EU, San Francisco

☆ Goodyear Tire to cut 700 jobs, sell retail stores in Asia Pacific
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The Goodyear logo is seen at a tire workshop in Caracas, Venezuela December 10, 2018. REUTERS/Manaure Quintero/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 22 (Reuters) - Goodyear Tire & Rubber (GT.O) said on Friday it plans to cut 700 jobs and sell about 100 retail stores and fleet locations, under a rationalization plan for its Asia Pacific segment. Goodyear would also exit nine warehouse locations, a regulatory filing showed. The pre-tax charges are estimated between $55 million and $65 million. Goodyear, in August, swung to a loss of 73 cents per share for the second quarter, from a profit of 58 cents per share a year earlier.

Persons: Manaure Quintero, Kannaki, Shweta Agarwal Organizations: Goodyear, REUTERS, Goodyear Tire &, Thomson Locations: Caracas, Venezuela, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, East, Africa, Ohio, Bengaluru

☆ Luis Rubiales: Complaints stack up against Spanish football chief -- and not just over his forcible kiss of a World Cup star
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Atika Shubert | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

A chauvinist act, by a president who is already plagued by corruption scandals and sexism,” he told CNN on Thursday. But when that didn’t assuage public anger, he doubled down in a widely-broadcast Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) meeting and defiantly refused to resign, to the applause of the mostly male audience. The uproar over the kiss, he told CNN, is just the beginning of a longer fight. “I was not surprised by that at all,” Juan Rubiales told El Mundo of the kiss. The person some of us knew privately but now the whole world can actually see him,” she told CNN.

Persons: Luis Rubiales, Miguel Angel Galan, Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso, ”, Spain’s, Hermoso, “, Manaure Quintero, Galan, – Angel Maria Villar, ” Galan, Juan Rubiales, ” Juan Rubiales, El Mundo, Beatriz Alvarez, Alvarez, ” Alvarez Organizations: CNN, Spain’s Football Federation, Spain, Galan, National Training Center of Football, Spanish, of Sport, Federation, Rubiales, Spanish Football Federation, Bloomberg, Getty, El Mundo, ” CNN, FIFA, La Liga, Football Federation Locations: Madrid, Spain, Spanish, Saudi Arabia

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