An analyst from investment firm Goldman Sachs has warned that Apple may face a fall in sales in China, due to slowing consumer demand in that country.

Face-to-face communications have fallen victim to the rise of the natural online communicators - or so-called ‘digital natives’ – according to one recruiting firm which says that employers are increasingly vetting candidates’ communications skills.

Google has announced changes to the way it licences its Android mobile operating system as it awaits the outcome of an appeal against a €4.3 billion (US$5 billion) fine levied on it by the European Union in July, for allegedly breaching anti-trust rules over the system.

And in what are Google's first public comments about its plan to launch a censored search engine in China, chief executive Sundar Pichai has told a conference that what has been developed so far is "very promising".

Major browser makers are moving away from older versions of the Transport Layer Security protocol, with co-ordinated announcements from Microsoft, Apple, Google and Mozilla detailing the changes.

Database maker MongoDB has become the second company to switch licences in a bid to make money, changing its licence from the AGPL version 3 to something called the Server Side Public Licence, in order to prevent companies that use it as a service from not paying, either in code or cash.

Credit card provider Visa has said it will introduce credential-on-file tokenisation following an agreement with payments providers, in order to improve ecommerce security.

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