Amazon Prime is getting more expensive
During its Q1 2018 earnings call, Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky told reporters that Amazon is increasing the price of its annual subscription from $99 per year …
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MoviePass CEO hints that its unlimited monthly movie service is already dead
We became slightly concerned last week when we found out that MoviePass had temporarily replaced its unbeatable $10 a month unlimited movie plan with a …
Amazon shares soar after monster earnings report
Amazon’s shares soared over 6 percent in after-hours trading, following a substantial earnings beat and a forecast for current-quarter growth that would defy all expectations. …
Apple partner TSMC has started production of next-gen chips that will power Apple’s new iPhone
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, a company that has fabricated the A-series chips in Apple’s iPhones and iPads for years, has officially started volume production of …
Report: Huawei is now under criminal investigation in the US
So far, 2018 has been a bad year for Chinese technology companies in the US. January started with the news that the US government had …
With Netflix planning to spend $8 billion on content this year, company plans to raise $1.5 billion in debt
A few years ago, Netflix came to the astute realization that it needed to amass a large library of original content. The brilliance of Netflix’s …
The DoJ’s corruption investigation of Verizon and AT&T could save us from a Sprint-T-Mobile merger
Late last week, news broke that the Department of Justice is investigating possible collusion between Verizon, AT&T, and industry body the GSMA to keep eSIMs …
The iPhone X is being outsold by a 4-year-old iPhone design
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 …
Apple’s acquisition of Shazam is at risk due to a new antitrust investigation
Apple’s acquisition of music recognition service Shazam, a deal reportedly worth $400 million, could be at risk after EU antitrust regulators announced Monday that they’ve …
Walmart is jumping on the crypto bandwagon with two blockchain patents
While the majority of the world is having fun watching Bitcoin go up and down faster than a yo-yo, companies are scrambling to get in …
T-Mobile’s wild ride might finally be slowing down
Since hiring CEO John Legere in 2012 and debuting its new Uncarrier strategy, T-Mobile has turned into the kind of success story that gets MBA …
Report: AT&T and Verizon have been working together to screw you
According to a New York Times article that landed Friday afternoon, the Department of Justice has opened an antitrust investigation into collusion between Verizon and AT&T’s wireless …
The Galaxy S9 is definitely no match for Apple’s latest iPhones
If you read our in-depth Galaxy S9 review, you know that Samsung’s Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus are by far the company’s most impressive …
I want to live in AT&T’s fantasy world where prices actually go down
We’re weeks into the court proceedings between AT&T, which is trying to buy Time Warner Inc, and the Justice Department that is suing to block …
A big slowdown in iPhone orders has Wall Street worried
Shares of Apple were down nearly 2.5 percent Thursday afternoon, following a dismal growth forecast from Apple’s biggest processor supplier. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) …
Cord-cutting is hitting the cable companies where it hurts most: Money
As it’s been extensively documented for the last year, cord-cutting streaming services are coming for the cable companies. Pay TV subscriptions are down by record …
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is looking for excuses to raise prices again
After raising prices for the second times in two years last fall, Netflix was understandably cautious about its results for the first quarter in 2018. …
The iPhone X alone made three times more money than every Android manufacturer put together
So much hype surrounded Apple in the run-up to the iPhone X launch that we’ve had a tough time working out whether the phone was …
The massive US ban on ZTE will hurt Android the most
On Monday morning, the US Department of Commerce hit Chinese phone-maker ZTE with a seven-year ban on any American technology. Under the terms of the …
T-Mobile fined $40 million for faking ringtones and failing calls in rural areas
T-Mobile will pay the US Treasury $40 million to settle a dispute with the FCC over failed calls and faked ringtones for rural areas. The …
Sprint is giving away a month of unlimited prepaid service – so now T-Mobile is giving away 2 months
Sprint just can’t seem to catch a break these days. The company recently came up with a nifty idea to try to bring in new …
Samsung slapped with monster $2.8 billion lawsuit for allegedly stealing biometric tech
The big names in any industry always have bullseyes on their backs, and the consumers electronics industry is obviously no different. Companies are constantly slapping …
An AT&T-Time Warner merger would cost consumers $571 million every single year
The US Department of Justice and AT&T are currently slugging it out in court over whether or not the cable giant should be allowed to …
Tesla and the NTSB are in a serious fight over the fatal Tesla Autopilot crash
In the space of a week, Tesla and the National Transportation Safety Board have gone from cooperating on the investigation of last month’s fatal Tesla …
Facebook is the least-trusted tech company by a country mile
While Mark Zuckerberg spent all day yesterday answering awkward questions about Facebook from his booster seat, Recode published a new poll showing which tech companies are trusted …
Apple ordered to pay half a billion dollars in damages to a patent troll
As the Honorable Judge Chamberlain Haller famously said, “win some lose some.” Apple emerged victorious over Samsung after it took the South Korean consumer tech giant …
Top 5 takeaways from day 1 of Mark Zuckerberg’s Senate testimony
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday appeared before Congress for day one of a two-day grilling from United States Senators. Some Senators were more friendly than …
The nightmare Sprint-T-Mobile merger could be back on
Less than six months after Sprint and T-Mobile ended talks about merging the two wireless networks, the Wall Street Journal reports that the deal could be back …
You’re what’s wrong with Facebook
These lines jumped out at me from CNN reporter Dylan Byers’s “Pacific” email newsletter, focused on tech and innovation, in the edition sent out the …
AT&T exec called broadcasters ‘shortsighted whores’ for selling to streaming services
The ongoing legal battle between AT&T and the Department of Justice over whether AT&T can acquire Time Warner is giving us a unique insight into …
