Google is finally fixing its incomprehensible messaging apps strategy
As we and others reported last night, Google has confirmed it’s shutting down its messaging app Allo that never really caught fire in something of …
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MoviePass reveals new monthly plans for 2019, and they’re not good
Following what was one of the most drastic (and unsurprising) collapses in recent memory, MoviePass has a plan. In fact, as part of its attempt …
Goodbye to Allo: Google confirms it will shutter its short-lived messaging app
In a turn of events pretty much everyone outside of Google saw coming, the search giant is apparently poised to wind down its Google Allo …
Google is testing a way for Search to be your TV Guide for streaming apps
If you watch a lot of the content streamed by players like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and the like, at some point you can feel a …
Your local coffee shop may start streaming Apple Music soon
Ben Thompson, the tech analyst behind the influential and widely read Stratechery blog, published a kind of mea culpa a few days ago in which …
Mark Zuckerberg’s response to leaked Facebook emails: We’re actually the good guys
Facebook’s brutal year of one bad news cycle after another has continued pretty much interrupted, with today offering the latest bit of fuel for the …
250,000 people (and counting) signed a petition over Tumblr’s porn ban
Well, that didn’t take long. Tumblr announced a major change to its platform Monday — the wholesale banning of adult content starting in two weeks …
Hulu and AT&T are working to make TV ads more annoying than ever
Nothing in life is as certain as death, taxes and the relentless expansion of advertising to every conceivable digital and real-world blank canvas that revenue-hungry …
Here’s another reminder that Samsung’s mobile business needs a jolt
Samsung hung on to the top spot as the biggest smartphone maker in the world in the third quarter, but new data from Gartner shows …
Quora discloses major breach that affects 100 million users
You can’t exactly get a sense of the severity of the data breach that Quora disclosed late Monday, which came in the form of a …
Tumblr is banning all adult content in a major shift for the Verizon-owned platform
Tumblr is implementing a major shift to its platform starting later this month, one that has some users up in arms but will make it …
Comcast is about to increase its fees yet again for no good reason
It’s an old story by now but one that almost never fails to get many consumers’ blood to rise. We’re referring to the inevitability of …
New scammy iOS app shows Apple may need to tweak its App Store review process
It’s always good to be reminded that there are no digital spaces that are completely impervious to bad actors and people who want to cause …
Best Buy kicks off 20 days of doorbuster deals on tech and gadgets this weekend
With the dust from Black Friday and Cyber Monday barely settled, Best Buy is pressing right ahead with yet another discount-heavy promotion for holiday shoppers …
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 …
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 …
