Technology

Japan's biggest search engine and messaging app are set to merge under a deal agreed by their parent companies.

Yahoo Japan is the country's biggest search engine, and has e-commerce and online banking subsidiaries.

Line is the country's dominant messaging app, and is also popular in Southeast Asia and Taiwan.

Analysts

It is all quiet on a mid-morning weekday at the CCTV monitoring centre of Southwark Council, in London, when I pay a visit.

Dozens of monitors display largely mundane activities - people cycling in a park, waiting for

Jamie Heinemeier Hansson had a better credit score than her husband, tech entrepreneur David. They have equal shares in their property and file joint tax returns.

Yet David was given permission to borrow 20 times the amount on his Apple Card than his wife was granted.

The situation was far from unique. Even Apple's co-founder