Tech Roundup: Apple Self Service Repair, WhatsApp Pay India Push & More

[A recurring feature on the latest in Science & Technology.]

• Google begins accepting requests to remove Search results that include users' contact info, like physical addresses, phone numbers, and emails, and login credentials.
• Google says it blocked 1.2 million apps that violated its policies from being published on the Play Store in 2021, banned 190,000 developer accounts for malicious behaviour, and closed around 500,000 developer accounts that are inactive or abandoned.
• Meta's WhatsApp attempts compete with rivals Google Pay and PhonePe with cashback rewards in India to lure more customers to its P2P payments service, alongside incentives for merchants.
• Apple debuts Self Service Repair program in the U.S. for iPhone 12, iPhone 13, and new iPhone SE models, and announces plans to expand to Europe and add M1 Macs by the end of the year.
• That said, the service comes with a catch: the parts being purchased from the sore must be paired with a device, requiring customers to enter a device's serial number or IMEI and pair the ordered parts with the same device.
• Google Cloud launches Media CDN, which lets media customers deliver content using the same infrastructure that powers YouTube, including tools for ad insertion; YouTube says it will begin testing ads on Shorts, including app-install ads and other promotions, as its ad revenue growth slows.
• Australia's competition watchdog sues Uber and seeks a AU$ 26 million fine after the company admitted to misleading users about ride fare estimates and cancellation fees.
• Meta reports Q1 2022 revenue of US$ 27.9 billion (out of which ad revenues take up US$ 27 billion), up 7% YoY, and net income of US$ 7.5 billion, down 21% YoY, as its Reality Labs division posts a US$ 2.96 billion loss, up from a US$ 1.8 billion loss in Q4 2021, on revenue of US$ 695 million; daily active users across its family of apps touches 2.87 billion, up 6% YoY, with Facebook's daily active users growing 1.6% QoQ to 1.96 billion in Q1 2022, a return to growth after Facebook's first-ever QoQ user decline in Q4 2021.
• Meta also said that Reels takes up more than 20% of the time people spend on Instagram, and that video, overall, makes up 50% of the time that users spend on Facebook.
• Qualcomm reports Q2 2022 revenue of US$ 11.16 billion, up 41% YoY, net income of US$ 3.7 billion, up 68% YoY, and chip segment revenue of US$ 9.55 billion, up 52% YoY.
• Pinterest reports Q1 2022 revenue of US$ 575 million, up 18% YoY, as it reports 433 million monthly active users, down 9% YoY.
• South Korean electronics giant Samsung reports Q1 2022 operating profit of about US$ 11.1 billion, up 51% YoY, on revenue of US$61.4 billion, up 19% YoY, driven by memory chip sales with revenue of US$ 21.23 billion, up 39% YoY.
• Spotify reports Q1 2022 revenue rises 24% YoY to €2.66 billion, including €282 million from ads, up 31% YoY; paying subscribers jumps 15% YoY to 182 million, despite losing 1.5 million users in Russia.