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 …
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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 …
Report: US consumers are going to spend $1 trillion this Christmas for the first time
It might seem like the US is in something of a retail slump at the moment, at least when it comes to legacy brands and …
New retailers jumping on the cashier-less bandwagon include 7-Eleven and Lenovo
First it was Amazon’s experiment leading people to wonder if the days of humans filling cashier jobs in the world of retail were numbered. Then …
Amazon confirms it’s launching a mini-FedEx to deliver packages to Prime members
Amazon is making some major changes to its business for the upcoming holiday season. One of the big moves includes offering free shipping to all …
You’ve got a secret score that affects how customer service treats your call
Peter Fader is a marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School whose idea of customer service might strike some people as rather cold. …
Google customer support just became a reality for Google One subscribers
We’ve all likely experienced it — some sort of serious issue with a Google product, maybe having been locked out of an account or losing …
Microsoft’s CEO just gave a Tim Cook-style speech supporting privacy as a ‘human right’
Just days after Apple CEO Tim Cook gave a passionate defense of the need for greater privacy protections at a conference in Brussels, Microsoft CEO …
Study shows the T-Mobile ONE plan really is as good as T-Mobile says
In case you see T-Mobile CEO John Legere today asking people via Twitter what they’d spend an extra $1,550.71 if they had it to blow, …
Cable bills are soaring, with some consumers paying almost $1,300 a year as a result
Consumers are cutting the cord in droves and increasingly replacing traditional cable TV packages with skinny bundles and streaming options. And, of course, in the …
Walmart: Hey Amazon, we can do cashier-free stores too
Amazon’s biggest retail rival wants to grab its own piece of the cashier-free store pie. Walmart’s answer to the Amazon Go convenience store concept (which …
Twitter may be getting rid of the ‘like’ button
After a spate of hate-fueled shootings in recent days, as well as the arrest of the pipe bomber targeting prominent liberals, social platforms find themselves …
Say hello to Google Discover, yet another news feed that tries to guess what you want
Google’s big update to its search product that the company announced a month ago now is at last starting to arrive on the search giant’s …
Microsoft now officially owns GitHub, a reminder of how much the company has changed
During its earnings call just a few days ago, Microsoft executives promised the company’s $7.5 billion acquisition of the GitHub code repository would be closing …
Apple’s second biggest source of revenue is a faster-growing business than Nike
Apple’s “services” category has become an incredibly important business for the iPhone maker — services being the category that includes everything from iTunes to the …
It’s the same old story at LG: Still upbeat about mobile, but still losing money
LG on the whole has been riding high in 2018. But that’s no thanks to its serially struggling mobile business. Everyone has basically been writing …
Google Maps just copied Facebook Pages with a useful new feature
Google Maps long ago stopped being just a simple navigational tool that helps you route a path to get where you want to go. It’s …
The lawyer who helped Hulk Hogan bankrupt Gawker is coming for Yelp now
A high-profile lawyer whose clients have included wrestler Hulk Hogan as well as President Trump wants the U.S. Supreme Court to agree to hear a …
