Samsung ordered to pay Apple $539 million after an entirely too-long legal battle
A jury has determined that Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for infringing Apple’s intellectual property with the sale of Android devices in 2010 and …
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Cord cutting is crushing pay TV, and it’s glorious
Forgive me if you’ve heard this before, but cable companies just had another dismal quarter of subscriber losses. The top five publicly traded cable companies …
People hate their internet service providers more than ever
At this point, the fact that everyone hates whichever company pipes internet into their homes is a bad joke. We’ve come to expect terrible customer …
Amazon is permanently banning customers that make too many returns
One of the many perks of shopping on Amazon is the company’s fairly lenient return policy. If you’re not happy with an item you purchased, …
People surprised when giving money to strangers on the internet doesn’t work out
Kickstarter has gone from being a niche platform for making funky smartwatches to a multi-billion-dollar industry that seemingly sells every smartphone accessory on the planet. …
3.4 million households have ditched cable since 2012
Cord-cutting has gone from a whispered industry nightmare to a very present reality, with over a million people killing their traditional pay TV subscriptions last …
The Apple-Samsung patent lawsuit might finally end today
Apple and Samsung have been tied up in litigation for long enough to merit a mention in some of the later books in the Bible, …
I’m sure the former Equifax lawyer now investigating Equifax will be completely unbiased
It’s kind of a sad in-joke at this point that there’s a revolving door in Washington between corporations and the federal watchdogs that are supposed …
PayPal takes on Square with massive $2.2B iZettle purchase
PayPal just confirmed that it’s buying Swedish payments startup iZettle for $2.2 billion in an all-cash transaction, which would make it PayPal’s biggest purchase ever. …
AT&T is making streaming as complicated as cable
The writing is most decidedly on the wall for traditional cable packages. Existing subscribers are hemorrhaging by the month, young people aren’t signing up in …
Wow, I wonder why AT&T and Verizon aren’t worried about that mammoth Sprint-T-Mobile merger
T-Mobile and Sprint know that they face an uphill battle in persuading regulators that they should be allowed to merge. Most competition theory suggests that …
Comcast is charging $90 to plug in your modem and I’m not even angry any more
There’s only so many times that you can write about Comcast acting like a rent–seeking monopolist before reaching the point where nothing will surprise you …
Amazon just gave you a Whole Foods reason to get Prime
If you’re not an Amazon Prime subscriber but love Whole Foods, which is also an Amazon property, you should check out the retailer’s brand new …
More changes coming at Tesla as Model 3 production hits critical phase
Elon Musk has not been pulling any punches when it comes to reorganizing Tesla to finally (hopefully?) start turning a profit. Last month, Musk sent …
Bitcoin prices are tumbling again
Bitcoin has once again fallen below the $9,000 mark as a bad 24 hours of news sent speculative investors scurrying back to their fiat currencies. …
MoviePass is rapidly running out of cash to support its incredible deal
MoviePass, the subscription movie theater service that is far too good to be true, is rapidly running out of money. According to a filing from …
Apple just broke another record on its way to becoming the first trillion-dollar company
Apple’s stock opened at a record high on Monday morning, thanks to a general stock-market rally and some kind words from Warren Buffett last week. …
Jilted investor hits the world’s third-biggest cryptocurrency with a wild lawsuit
Cryptocurrencies, the savior of the world’s financial system or a “noxious poison,” depending on who you talk to, are woefully good targets for fraud. The …
Verizon ‘doesn’t care’ about the Sprint T-Mobile merger
If you listen to what T-Mobile CEO John Legere has been saying about the T-Mobile Sprint merger, Verizon and AT&T should be running scared. “Even …
Tesla isn’t the only one struggling to manufacture cheap electric cars
Unless you have studiously avoided the internet for the last 12 months, you’ve probably run into the dispute over Tesla’s production of the cheap-and-cheerful Model …
Apple beat Samsung in the most important three months of the year
Apple’s long-awaited earnings were finally released yesterday, and the company once again proved that analysts don’t know everything. Despite pessimism about iPhone sales going into …
Tesla earnings: Revenue reaches a new all-time high but company is still losing money
Tesla today released its earnings results for the March quarter and posted revenue of $3.4 billion, easily besting Wall Street estimates which had revenue falling …
Canada’s embarrassingly bad data plans are another reason to hate the T-Mobile-Sprint merger
As you may have heard over the weekend, T-Mobile and Sprint have finally finished their years-long courtship and agreed to tie the knot. The two …
Here’s what analysts are saying about Apple’s Q2 earnings
After yet another long stretch of doom and gloom leading up to Apple’s fiscal second-quarter earnings report on Tuesday, the company racked up yet another …
Comcast is only increasing internet speeds for customers who also pay for cable
As we’ve documented ad nauseam before, cable companies are struggling with falling profits due largely to cord cutting. With over a million customers jumping ship …
Shocker: Cable companies had yet another terrible quarter thanks to cord-cutting
2017 was a bad year for the pay TV industry. Cable and satellite providers saw subscribers leave in record numbers, and despite efforts to blame …
Jan Koum is leaving Facebook and WhatsApp users will end up paying the price
Jan Koum, the other Facebook-made WhatsApp co-founder that’s still working for the giant social network will leave the company over clashes with Mark Zuckerberg about …
Investors are finding new reasons to love Apple now that the iPhone is fading
In the leadup to the iPhone X reveal last year, analysts were visibly salivating at the prospect of an iPhone upgrade “supercycle,” a tidal wave …
Lawsuit blames rising smartphone prices on Samsung price-fixing crucial components
It’s no secret that smartphone prices have been creeping upwards for the last few years. Some analysts blame the creep on manufacturers using increasingly expensive …
Tesla is burning so much cash it could go broke by the end of the year
Tesla is not much like any other car company. It’s eschewed dealerships, the usual pre-production testing, meetings, management structure, and allegedly worker safety in an …
