Verizon’s sweet new BOGO deal lets you score a free iPhone XR, Pixel 3 or Galaxy S9
Verizon is launching another one of its BOGO deals on top smartphones starting today, a limited-time offer that makes leading handsets available for free or …
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T-Mobile CEO’s Twitter war with Trump ended the moment the Sprint merger was announced
Back when he and a not-yet-president Donald Trump were feuding on Twitter, T-Mobile CEO John Legere very publicly bashed the quality of Trump’s hotel in …
Apple plans to pull back on hiring as a result of slower iPhone sales
Apple is continuing to feel more ramifications from the economic slowdown in China that the iPhone maker has previously blamed for the downward revision in …
How much can Netflix raise its prices before customers cancel in droves?
Netflix announced the biggest price increase in the history of the streaming service today, hiking prices on all three of its US plan tiers by …
Huawei CEO denies the company spies for China – and praises Trump
After weeks of seeing the China-based tech giant he leads deal with a crushing wave of negative publicity, the billionaire founder and CEO of Huawei …
Netflix just announced the biggest price increase in the history of its streaming service
Netflix increased the prices of all three of its US plans on Tuesday, some by as much as 18%, which makes this the most substantial …
Smartphone production could plummet 19% this quarter to its lowest point since 2013
Companies like Apple and Samsung have blamed China in recent weeks as the reason for their respective smartphone sales slowdowns. More broadly, meanwhile, factors like …
Is Amazon creepier than Google at this point?
Did someone distribute a privacy-related memo of some kind at Amazon recently — one that declares, at this point, there are no rules anymore? Because …
MoviePass did so many stupid things in 2018 that nearly 60% of users canceled
2018 was a hellscape for MoviePass’ business. The movie ticketing service bled a ton of subscribers, rolled out a confusing array of tweaks to its …
South Korean cabbies are lighting themselves on fire in protest of a ride-sharing app
It’s no surprise that taxi drivers aren’t exactly the world’s biggest fans of ride-sharing apps that offer customers cheap fares and the convenience of hailing …
T-Mobile added a record number of subscribers in its best quarter ever
T-Mobile absolutely crushed it over the holidays, with the wireless carrier announcing a record 2.4 million net customer additions in the fourth quarter and 7 …
You can’t delete Facebook on certain Samsung phones, and people are pissed
Gone are the days when Samsung phones would ship with plenty of bloatware. That’s software that you didn’t really need but which Samsung and its …
Demand for smartphones in China slows down, spelling trouble for tech giants
When China sneezes, a big chunk of the smartphone industry apparently catches the flu. On the heels of tech giants like Apple and Samsung coming …
Tim Cook says wearables are now a bigger business for Apple than the iPod ever was
Ever since Tim Cook moved into the corner office at Apple on a permanent basis, both he and the iPhone maker itself have been dogged …
Amazon now sending out free samples to users based on their buying habits
Amazon’s latest advertising push should surprise and delight consumers, if it doesn’t terrify them first. Axios reported on Tuesday that the online retailer quietly kicked off …
Hulu now has more subscribers than Comcast, the biggest cable company in the US
Here’s as good an indication as any about how dramatically the pendulum is swinging the other way when it comes to consumers abandoning expensive cable …
T-Mobile ironically scorches AT&T for updating 4G phones with a fake 5G icon
LTE networks have become so expansive and reliable in the United States that it can be difficult to remember what life was like before 4G …
IBM was the top patent recipient in 2018 for the 26th year in a row
For the 26th year in a row, IBM earned more patents than any other US company in 2018 — 9,100, to be exact, with more …
Spotify is turning its Discover Weekly playlist into a brand-sponsored moneymaker
Spotify is embarking on a new way to make money from its product in addition to established revenue generators, like converting as many of its …
Samsung follows Apple in forecasting a quarterly revenue decline, thanks in part to China
Today was supposed to be Samsung’s day to shine as part of CES 2019, with the South Korea-based tech giant offering up a slew of …
Amazon Go stores could turn into a billion dollar business
Amazon Go may have started out as a cool proof of concept located exclusively in Seattle, but the cashless stores are starting to expand well …
Trump advisor says China stole Apple technology, but provides zero evidence
Apple issued a rare revision to its earnings guidance earlier this week, cautioning investors that the company is anticipating to generate a few billion dollars …
HTC’s phone sales are so abysmal that 2018 was its worst year since going public
Another round of earnings data is out from Taiwan-based smartphone maker HTC, and the storyline is unfortunately much the same as it’s been for a …
It’s not just Apple: Baidu CEO warns employees that ‘winter is coming’
As China continues to suffer an economic slowdown as trade-related tensions with the US drag on, the CEO of what is essentially the Google of …
Look out Netflix: Disney made an insane amount of money at the box office in 2018
Disney officially closed out 2018 in style. The company added a few extra billion to its coffers thanks to an insanely successful run at the …
Apple’s bad news for investors might be good news for Samsung and Huawei
Two of Apple’s biggest rivals in the smartphone game likely broke out some bubbly over the past 24 hours in celebration of the good fortune …
Read Tim Cook’s full memo to Apple employees following the company’s grim earnings warning
The broken clock pundits are working overtime on Thursday morning following a grim earnings warning that Apple issued on Wednesday afternoon. After all these years …
Roku introduces premium network subscriptions – with some pretty major exceptions
Roku is now the latest tech company hoping that all of you who don’t currently subscribe to premium cable channels like Showtime but want to …
Netflix ought to be scared in 2019 based on Disney’s performance this year
For years, Netflix has outlasted one challenger after another that’s tried to dethrone the streaming giant we’ve all grown accustomed to turning to for our …
The future of retail sounds hyper personalized – and slightly dystopian
In the year 2040, there will still be plenty of physical, brick-and-mortar stores around where you can go to buy things — but they will …
