Day: March 16, 2026

Where the Fun, the View, and the Music is always Free! The MarshWalk, located in the heart of the historic fishing village of Murrells Inlet on South Carolina’s Hammock Coast, is a half-mile wooden boardwalk along a natural saltwater estuary.

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“We are extremely excited to share that MotionVFX is joining the Apple team to continue to empower creators and editors to do their best work,” the startup said on its website Monday, News.Az reports, citing foreign media.

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“From the very beginning, we’ve been all about quality, ease of use, and great design. These are also the values that we admire most in Apple’s products, and we’re thrilled to be able to embrace them together.”

Apple declined to comment or disclose deal terms. 

Founded in 2009, MotionVFX offers packages starting at $29 a month for editing inside Final Cut Pro. The acquisition will allow Apple to integrate MotionVFX’s capabilities directly rather than relying on third-party extensions. 

The move could help Apple better compete with Adobe Premiere Pro and add subscribers as it continues to lessen its reliance on devices. Apple’s services business, which includes subscriptions like iCloud, Apple Music, and app bundles, generally have higher profit margins than hardware like iPhones.

In January, Apple introduced a bundle called Creator Studio, which packages popular creative apps like Final Cut Pro into a subscription for $12.99 per month or $129 per year. It competes with suites like Adobe Creative Cloud.

Apple has long avoided large acquisitions, and has instead purchased numerous small companies for their talent and technology that can be integrated into existing products.

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The grid operator, UNE, said on social media on Monday that it was investigating the causes of the blackout, the latest in a series of widespread outages that last for hours or days and that last weekend sparked a rare violent protest in the communist-run country, News.Az reports, citing foreign media.

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The US has ratcheted up pressure this year on its longtime foe Cuba since capturing the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro – Cuba’s most important foreign benefactor – in January. The US president, Donald Trump, cut off Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba and threatened to put tariffs on any country that sold oil to Cuba, strangling the Caribbean island’s already antiquated grid.

Cuba said on Friday that it was in talks with the US with the hope of defusing the crisis. Trump has said in recent weeks that Cuba is on the verge of collapse and is eager to make a deal with the US.

Cuba has received only two small vessels carrying oil imports this year, according to LSEG ship-tracking data seen by Reuters on Monday.

The first tanker discharged fuel at the Havana port in January, coming from Mexico, which was a regular supplier to the island until then. The second vessel, from Jamaica, discharged liquefied petroleum gas – known as cooking gas – in February.

Venezuela, once Cuba’s main oil supplier, has sent no fuel to the island this year.

Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA, last month loaded gasoline in a tanker that it had previously used to transport fuel to Cuba, but the vessel has not left Venezuelan waters, PDVSA documents and tanker monitoring data showed.

No large imports have entered this year through Cuba’s main hubs of Matanzas or Moa, which typically handle crude for refining and fuel oil for power generation, according to satellite images analysed by TankerTrackers.com. The ports of Havana and Cienfuegos have not had import activity in more than a month, it added.

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