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Facebook Reports Strong Results For Fourth Quarter
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) reported strong results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016. Revenue was up 51 percent year over year as the company reported earning $8.81 billion in revenue in the quarter, reaching earnings per share... More of this article »
Twitter Reveals Details Of FBI Letters For First Time
Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) recently posted information online about two national security letters it received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that are no longer restricted by a gag order. The letters to Twitter were sent in September... More of this article »
Twitter Announces Online Vine Archive
Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) has launched an online archive of Vine videos containing all the posts made from 2013 through 2016. The company is launching the archive on the old Vine website at Vine.co. Twitter said “the Vine archive is a... More of this article »
Tesla Rolling Out Updated Autopilot Software
Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) has announced that it is rolling out its Autopilot software to Model S and Model X cars built since October, which are equipped with second-generation Autopilot hardware. Tesla has been preparing the software... More of this article »
Breakthrough In Battery Development May Prevent Fires
Stanford University researchers say that they have successfully created a lithium-ion battery with built-in flame suppression. The researchers claim that the flame retardant can extinguish any flames caused by the overheated battery... More of this article »
Snap Inc. Performance Questioned Ahead Of IPO
A former Snap Inc. employee has filed a lawsuit claiming that the company hasn’t been honest about its pre-IPO performance metrics. The suit was filed with the L.A. County Superior Court. The filer of the lawsuit, Anthony Pompliano,... More of this article »
Many Favorite Disney Movies Are Coming To Hulu
Hulu has announced reaching a multi-year licensing agreement with Disney (NYSE:DIS) that will bring family favorites like Mulan, Pocahontas, and The Nightmare Before Christmas to the service. The deal gives the service exclusive subscription... More of this article »
Amazon Reportedly Developing App For Truck Shipments
Reports have emerged that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is building an app that would connect truckers with shippers in need of truckers in an “Uber-like” way. Several job postings by the company appear to confirm this. A job posting for... More of this article »
Yahoo Announces Another Massive Security Breach
Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) has broken its own embarrassing record for the biggest security breach in history. Now, the company is saying that a 3-year-old security breach enabled a hacker to compromise more than 1 billion user accounts. Nearly... More of this article »
Amazon Unveils Futuristic New Grocery Concept
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has announced the launch of a futuristic new grocery store concept dubbed Amazon Go. The concept aims to take some of the hassles out of grocery shopping by removing two of the greatest obstacles to customer satisfaction:... More of this article »
NHTSA Proposes New ‘Driver Mode’ For Smartphones
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has turned its focus to reducing driver distraction from portable devices and other gear designed to be connected to your car. The agency has now published its first safety... More of this article »
Apple Announces Replacement Programs To Fix iPhone Issues
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has launched a new official repair program to address the iPhone 6s’s unexpected shutdown issue. Over the weekend, the company confirmed that some customers were seeing their phones unceremoniously switch off.... More of this article »
Facebook Develops New Inbox Feature For Businesses
Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) is rolling out a new feature that allows businesses to manage their separate Facebook platforms from a single point. Soon, businesses using Facebook Pages will be able to link inboxes across Facebook, Messenger,... More of this article »
Twitter Tackles Harassment With A Better Mute Button
One of the biggest benefits of Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) is that it’s open to everyone and every opinion. This has allowed millions of people to bring attention to noteworthy causes and important issues that wouldn’t have reached such... More of this article »
Siemens To Pay $4B For Mentor Graphics
Siemens AG (SIEGY) has announced reaching a deal to buy semiconductor-design software company Mentor Graphics Corp. (MENT) for $37.25 per share in cash, or roughly $4 billion. The complete deal values Mentor at about $4.5 billion,... More of this article »
Twitter Changes Coming After Slowdown In Revenue Growth
Twitter Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) reported a sharp slowdown in quarterly revenue growth for the third quarter of its fiscal year. Twitter reported third-quarter revenue of $616 million and non-GAAP earnings of 13 cents a share, beating estimates... More of this article »
Time Warner Worth $85.4B To AT&T
AT&T (NYSE:T) has bid $85.4 billion to purchase Time Warner (NYSE:TWX). Time Warner is getting $107.50 a share, with half of the deal in AT&T stock and half in cash. That is almost 40 percent more than investors thought the... More of this article »
Airlines Restrict Samsung Galaxy Note 7s Aboard Planes
Airlines and the federal government are beginning to restrict passengers from bringing Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 smartphones aboard commercial aircraft. The new rules were created by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration... More of this article »
Yahoo Users Can No Longer Set Automatic Mail Forwarding
Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) has turned off automatic email forwarding for Yahoo Mail users. Yahoo posted on its help pages that mail forwarding is currently under development. In a statement, Yahoo said, “Users can expect an update to... More of this article »
BlackBerry Pulls Plug On Hardware Business
BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) will no longer be making its own phones. The production of BlackBerry devices now will be outsourced to third-party manufacturers, according to a statement from the company made on Wednesday. CEO John Chen... More of this article »
Google Releases New Messaging App
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced Allo, its latest messaging app, in May at the Google I/O confab. Now, the app is available for free for iOS and Android phones. Allo looks similar to many other messaging apps already on the market. The... More of this article »
Increasing Demand Raises Intel’s Fortunes
Increasing demand for personal computers has resulted in Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) raising its quarterly revenue forecast for the first time in more than two years. Global PC shipments fell less than expected in the second quarter,... More of this article »
Tesla Autopilot Upgrade Coming In Next Two Weeks
Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) has announced that a software upgrade to its Autopilot system will be coming in the next two weeks. The upgrade will help the system improve the use of radar signals to guide Tesla vehicles along roadways.... More of this article »
New Cable Box Rules Proposed By FCC
New rules from the Federal Communications Commission designed to open up the market for television set-top boxes are sure to spark a backlash from large cable companies and other pay-TV providers. Under the plan, pay television providers... More of this article »
Samsung Recalls All Galaxy Note 7 Devices
On Friday morning, Samsung announced that it will recall every Galaxy Note 7 produced to date. According to reports, 1 million Note 7 handsets have been built at this point. The device has been on sale worldwide for just two weeks... More of this article »
Fitbit Revamps Two Popular Models
Fitbit (NYSE:FIT) unveiled the new Charge 2 activity tracker today, the successor to the popular Charge HR, its best-selling wearable to date. The Charge 2 is the same price as the Charge HR at $149. However, the display on the Charge... More of this article »
Alphabet Orders Staff Cuts To Google Fiber
Reports have emerged that Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) CEO Larry Page has ordered staff cuts to Google Fiber as the division has fallen well short of subscriber goals. The unit has reportedly only signed up 200,000 subscribers by the end... More of this article »
Apple Will Replace Pistol with Squirt Gun Emoji in iOS 10 Update, this Fall
It seems like every day the powers that be add new emoji to the growing alphabet of digital texting symbols. Indeed, we can now send little icons for just about anything, despite the fact that many symbols will probably never be used. For... More of this article »