YouTube adds new student plans for its premium subscription services
If you’re trying to figure out a solid long-term play to juice sign-ups to a subscription service, hooking people as early as possible is a …
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Samsung is still the top smartphone maker, but its numbers keep falling
The Game of Phones (apologies to George R.R. Martin) is getting to be an increasingly tough one to play for handset manufacturers. Just consider, for …
Top iOS shopping apps were downloaded almost 2M times on Black Friday
We knew this year’s Black Friday was going to be particularly massive, with shoppers generating a historic amount of revenue for retailers as part of …
Supreme Court may let iPhone users sue Apple over App Store terms
A legal challenge against Apple that could take a huge bite out of one of the company’s biggest revenue-drivers got a hearing in front of …
Disney will spend more on theme parks than Marvel, Pixar, and Lucasfilm combined
Media and content are such high-profile pieces of the Disney entertainment empire puzzle that it’s easy to hold them in outsized regard. The fact of …
Surprising no one, smartphones are now used for most Thanksgiving online spending
The retail industry’s all-important Black Friday weekend got off to an early start this year thanks to a surge in online spending activity, even though …
Both Samsung and Huawei are considering similar names for their foldable phones
The advent of foldable phones is going to be one of the higher profile and most closely watched mobile industry storylines of 2019, if for …
YouTube is testing a major change to the way it shows ads
YouTube has been testing a major change to the way it presents ads during videos, partly in response to the trend of users getting increasingly …
Facebook doesn’t think it should have to pay a fine over Cambridge Analytica
It was one of the biggest tech stories of the year, and arguably set Facebook’s “annus horribilis” in motion, when it was disclosed that the …
Comcast price hikes mean some of its monthly plans are approaching $3,000 a year
On the heels of the cable TV industry turning in its worst quarterly performance on record in terms of subscribers fleeing and cutting the cord, …
Apple’s annual holiday ad is out, and completely animated for the first time
Apple’s annual holiday commercials are generally heartwarming affairs that play on peoples’ feelings of nostalgia and holiday cheer, but the iPhone maker took a different …
Here’s a state-by-state look at what shoppers are searching for ahead of Black Friday
If search data is any guide, tons of Black Friday shoppers are looking to get their hands on video game consoles. That’s according to an …
Sprint’s Black Friday deals include discounts on several popular smartphones
Sprint has joined the parade of retailers rolling out their deals and offers ahead of Black Friday this year, and the nation’s fourth-largest wireless service …
Instagram purges fake followers and threatens to take action against users
It should come as a surprise to absolutely no one that some Instagram users get massive followings on the Facebook-owned service through the use of …
Survey: 66M Americans will go into debt after splurging on tech this holiday season
A new survey of a little more than 2,000 US consumers from buyback site Decluttr has turned up several interesting holiday-related retail trends, such as …
With photos, IGTV, and now shopping, you never have to leave Instagram
Just in time for the holidays, the app that used to be everybody’s favorite photo-sharing service has expanded its feature set yet again, with new …
Huawei exec: We’ll dethrone Samsung to be the global smartphone leader by 2020
The smartphone handset device business has of course been dominated by two names for years now, but a Chinese device maker most American consumers probably …
Facebook might use your photos to target your entire family with ads
Facebook is getting slammed from all sides at the moment. Over the past 24 hours or so, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff compared the company’s negative …
Even British royals are now criticizing tech giants like Facebook for dodgy practices
Britain’s Duke of Cambridge has launched a full-throated attack on US tech giants like Facebook, Twitter and Google in a speech at the BBC, an …
Samsung is about to spend an insane amount of money on 5G and AI investments
Samsung’s appetite for attention-grabbing technology experiments like folding displays for tablets and smartphones has certainly garnered the South Korean-based tech giant tons of headlines over …
Ad exec says sooner or later, Netflix is going to have to embrace ads like YouTube
There are a few certainties in life we can all agree on. Death, taxes — and that a large swath of Netflix’s user base will …
Netflix is testing a $4, mobile-only plan to attract a wider audience
Speaking with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings last week, Bloomberg learned that the company was considering testing a lower-priced tier of its streaming service in Asian …
Survey: Americans now check their smartphones a whopping 52 times a day
At this point, smartphone addiction is a pretty well understood phenomenon, even if we sometimes feel powerless to do much about it. Everything seems to …
PlayStation’s Black Friday deals include a new PS4 bundle and discounted VR systems
Sony is the latest retailer to get a jump on revealing its Black Friday 2018 deals, which include everything from a $199 PS4 bundle to …
Facebook goes down in a widespread outage across the U.S. (update: it’s back up now)
If you tried logging into Facebook this morning and got an error message, here’s why. The beleaguered social networking giant suffered a rare widespread outage, …
GameStop kicks off a massive sale for PowerUp Rewards Pro members this weekend
Whether you’re a dedicated gamer, someone who just likes to unwind after work by firing up your console for a fun session, or if you …
T-Mobile has blocked one billion spam calls in the last 18 months
We’ve told you in the past about estimates suggesting that your cell phone is going to be bombarded with a ton more spam calls next …
Cable and satellite TV providers bled a record number of subscribers in the third quarter
The ongoing subscriber exodus from traditional paid-TV packages is picking up steam, with a record number of Americans now cutting the cord and going all-in …
Report: The number of people who are fine with paying app subscriptions is growing
Apple has been making a big deal lately out of the company’s shift toward being increasingly driven by services and subscriptions, and new data from …
T-Mobile launches new prepaid unlimited plan to undercut Verizon
Just yesterday, Verizon announced changes to its prepaid plans to make them more competitive with rival offerings. Effective immediately, prepaid plans from Verizon now start …
