Facebook now says ‘millions’ of Instagram passwords were exposed, not ‘tens of thousands’
Well, that’s a heck of a revision. Back in March, as part of a disclosure about Facebook having learned that some user passwords were being …
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Apple’s got a credit card, and now T-Mobile is launching a checking account
Tech companies and telcos, all of a sudden it seems, have decided to start making money by getting into, well, money. The same way Apple …
T-Mobile and Comcast are now working together to fight robocalls
The fight against the barrage of spam calls and robocalls continues to pick up steam, as a pair of rival carriers announced today that they’re …
Verizon just made it more expensive to activate or upgrade a phone in-store
Verizon appears to be incentivizing consumers to make purchases online rather than at one of its brick-and-mortar retail stores, as CNET reports that the mobile …
Netflix just added another 10 million subscribers, will experiment with top 10 lists
Netflix is just out with its earnings results covering the first three months of the year, and a key highlight of the companion shareholder letter …
Apple helping rebuild Notre Dame is a perfect example of how it’s changed under Tim Cook
Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted early Tuesday morning that the company would be donating money as a way of helping French officials rebuild the Notre …
Facebook is copying Snapchat again with a new way to browse the News Feed
Facebook’s new Snapchat-like “Stories” format could be about to completely transform your News Feed, if the latest scoop from app researcher Jane Manchun Wong comes …
Prediction: Apple Arcade may end up being a bigger winner for Apple than its TV service
After formally unveiling the subscription-based video game service last month that it’s planning to launch this fall as part of a shift toward services and …
This is Netflix’s secret weapon in the fight against Disney and Apple
This weekend, pop culture fans around the world will turn their attention again to the fictional continent of Westeros, where a bitter, treacherous fight for …
Disney just announced a price and launch date for its Disney+ streaming service
We already knew the streaming wars were going to get a lot more interesting this fall, and at an investor day presentation this afternoon from …
LinkedIn just added Facebook-style reactions
Just because Facebook is mired in a teeming mess of scandal right now doesn’t mean its competitors are completely ignoring the way the largest social …
Samsung: We will remain the global smartphone leader for the next decade
Never mind that Samsung Electronics Co., the global smartphone maker leader as ranked by device shipments, reported a 60 percent slump in quarterly operating income …
Thanks to hits like ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ movie theaters have nothing to fear from Netflix
If there’s anybody you’d think would be among the first to proclaim that Netflix and its rival streaming services are eating away at the business …
GameStop unveils a slew of discounts for its two-week spring sale
GameStop is hoping that a just-announced slew of offers as part of its spring sale that kicks off on Sunday will bring in some much-needed …
Apple poaches another AI expert from Google for its ‘special projects’ group
Google is apparently starting to become the farm team for Apple’s artificial intelligence work. The iPhone maker has just poached another AI expert from the …
AT&T was declared the fastest US network, but its rivals aren’t having it
Emails started being sent out to reporters the moment Ookla announced the results of its latest speed test, in which it declared AT&T as the …
With ‘Game of Thrones’ season 8 coming, Roku just added a new way to watch HBO
As of today, Roku has plugged a major hole in the premium network subscription package it started offering in January, whereby users can sign up …
New test shows AT&T has the fastest wireless network in the US
With the just-released results of its latest speed test measuring the fastest wireless network in America, Ookla has shaken up the familiar pattern we tend …
In case you forgot, Netflix is raising its prices next month for many users
Netflix customers in the US have been getting emails reminding them of some important news happening next month for many of them. No, it’s not …
Apple News+ is off to a strong start, based on sign-ups from the first 48 hours
There are certainly some big omissions from Apple’s new premium news bundle, Apple News+, given that media companies like The New York Times and The …
Verizon just announced the first smartphone plan designed for kids
Kids are sometimes as young as 10 when parents allow them to have their first smartphone, according to studies from recent years, which might sound …
Apple is doing something in China it almost never does: Cutting iPhone prices
Apple is taking something of an unusual step to stem the tide of losses in China that the iPhone maker said at the end of …
Apple’s upcoming credit card is a lot cooler than you might think
Apple’s special media event last week was unique for a variety of reasons. Though Apple didn’t introduce anything groundbreaking or revolutionary, the event saw Apple …
YouTube TV has finally completed its rollout to every US television market
It was a little more than two years ago now that YouTube announced its entry into the streaming TV wars, with the unveiling back in …
Spotify is testing a cheaper plan that people can share
As things stand now with Spotify, premium, ad-free subscriptions to the music streamer cost $9.99 a month for an individual and $14.99 for a family. …
Apple Card will hopefully spur other banks to ditch credit card numbers, too
The new MasterCard-branded credit card that Apple introduced this week has gotten a lot of attention, much of it for things that the card doesn’t …
GameStop unveils esports partnerships to rejuvenate the video game chain
As the video game industry increasingly shifts toward mobile and streaming, and away from pricey consoles and cartridges, GameStop is in the midst of a …
Netflix is thinking so creatively about content, it’s starting to hire video game designers
Tons of ink has been spilled this week on Apple’s original video ambitions, and how to regard the Apple TV+ subscription package the iPhone maker …
A new biography explains why Apple is more successful than ever under Tim Cook
In Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level, a pundit at one point tries to make the case to author Leander …
This website keeps track of every product and service that Google has ever killed
We’re still a few months away from the halfway mark of 2019, and already Google has sent some pretty high-profile products to an early grave …
