Facebook isn’t doing a great job protecting the phone number you gave it
Well, we all should have seen this coming. Facebook is under fire again for arguably misusing user data, this time related to the phone numbers …
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Huawei continues full-blown PR campaign to fight US criticism
Embattled Chinese smartphone maker Huawei capped another week full of a steady stream of negative headlines targeting the company by continuing a massive, weeks-long PR …
Amazon plans to open dozens of its own grocery stores in the coming years
Two years after making a surprise acquisition of Whole Foods, Amazon is about to go even deeper into the grocery business by launching a completely …
Creepy Huawei propaganda video stars cute kids singing about the company
“The battery is durable and the appearance is good, with the most precious Chinese chip! Ranking first in the phone world, Huawei strives for innovation!” …
New report shows the number of robocalls grew a whopping 325% worldwide last year
The team behind caller ID service Hiya has taken advantage of the attention generated by MWC this week to release its Global Robocall Radar Report, …
Anonymous survey shows Tesla and SpaceX employees are still confident in Elon Musk
The Twitter habits of Tesla’s chief executive are apparently coming back under scrutiny, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission asking a judge to hold …
Of course some apps are sharing private health details with Facebook
Stop us if you’ve heard a version of this one before. Facebook is slurping up a trove of extremely personal data from users of almost …
Ahead of MWC next week, new data illustrates global smartphone slowdown
When you consider the latest global smartphone marketshare data from Gartner, which highlights a protracted industry slump in terms of handset sales, it starts to …
Huawei founder strikes defiant tone in interview, says the US ‘can’t crush us’
In his first interview since the arrest of his daughter in December, Huawei’s until-now reclusive founder struck a defiant tone in response to questions from …
Analyst: Apple’s streaming video service won’t ‘move the needle’ for a while
At this point, there have been a slew of announcements related to the content Apple is commissioning and buying for its upcoming Netflix-like streaming service. …
New report shows the lengths to which Huawei has gone to copy Apple
An engineer for the China-based smartphone maker Huawei recently sent a photo of some product design material to an Apple supplier. The Huawei engineer’s note …
Razer Game Store will shut down just ten months after opening
Less than a year after announcing the launch of what it promised would be a new digital distribution platform for PC games that offered “instant …
Samsung couldn’t wait for next week’s Unpacked event to announce new retail plans
In response to what it says is customer demand for more places where they can experiment with and get a first hand-look at new products, …
Cable could lose over 39 million subscribers this year to streaming services
The bad news keeps getting worse for Big Cable, and there’s no end in sight. The latest? UBS this week released the results of its …
This Amex card is driving the internet crazy, and the 100,000 bonus points explains it
BGR has partnered with The Points Guy for our coverage of credit card products. BGR and The Points Guy may receive a commission from card issuers. …
More than 1 million people cut the cord during the most recent quarter
Dish Network announced today that it shed 334,000 subscribers during the fourth quarter, with a substantial portion of the departures being attributed to the ongoing …
Activision Blizzard cuts 800 workers, refocuses on hits like ‘Call of Duty’
As everyone expected, the video game company whose various units publish everything from franchises like Call of Duty to Candy Crush has just announced a massive …
Google is facing another antitrust probe in one of the world’s biggest smartphone markets
Google has another investigation on its hands from a national regulator in one of the biggest smartphone markets in the world — an investigation along …
Tesla employees confess lingering layoff fears on anonymous chat app
After Tesla laid off some 9,000 workers last year and announced pink slips for another 7% of its workforce in January — which equates to …
Whole Foods is raising prices less than two years after Amazon’s acquisition
Depending on who you ask, Whole Foods is continuing to live up to the unfortunate nickname — “Whole Paycheck” — that cost-conscious shoppers bestowed on …
T-Mobile wants you to ‘break up’ with your carrier for its Valentine’s promotion
We told you last week about Verizon’s new BOGO (buy one get one free) offer that launched on Feb. 7, one week before Valentine’s Day. …
Woes mount for Activision Blizzard, which is planning layoffs after a sales slump
Activision Blizzard isn’t having the greatest start to the week, dealing as it is with the effects of a protracted sales slump as well as …
California man sues Apple because two-factor authentication works the way it’s supposed to
Jay Brodsky is an Apple customer from California who has a bone to pick with the iPhone maker. He’s not happy with the way the …
New job listing suggests Google may be thinking about building its own smartwatch
Google is apparently about to ramp up its wearable device business in a major way. That would seem to be the case thanks to a …
Nintendo touts the ‘very high number of women’ it employs as game designers
The number of and associated job duties for female employees was an area of focus during a Q&A session that Nintendo’s leadership hosted with investors …
Spectrum plans another inexplicable fee hike just four months after the last one
If you get your cable through Spectrum, prepare for your bill to inexplicably go up next month. According to the Los Angeles Times, Spectrum will …
Verizon’s new BOGO deal offers huge discounts on the hottest smartphones
Less than a month out from its last such offer, Verizon is once again preparing to launch another of its BOGO deals — this one …
T-Mobile promises the Sprint merger won’t drive up prices… for now
Now that the government has officially reopened and the review process for T-Mobile’s proposed merger with Sprint has presumably picked back up, CEO John Legere …
Details emerge of an FBI sting targeting Huawei last month at CES
A few weeks before officials from the US Justice Dept. announced the unsealing of indictments against China-based tech giant Huawei — indictments that included almost …
Samsung finally decided to cancel its eyebrow-raising partnership with a fake Supreme brand
It took almost two months, but it seems that Samsung has finally come to its senses. After a splashy announcement in December about a partnership …
