Thanks to the iPhone X, Apple is beating Samsung in its own backyard
While Apple has successfully beaten Samsung in the worldwide flagship smartphone market for years, there’s always been one country that was impossible to crack: South …
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The US’s leading Bitcoin exchange is draining tens of thousands of dollars from users’ bank accounts
Coinbase, the leading US crypto-currency exchange, has a problem. According to dozens of reports on Reddit and Twitter, the company has been making repeated unauthorized …
Warren Buffett’s longtime sidekick says Bitcoin is ‘noxious poison’
Bitcoin’s surge to fame and fortune this year has forced the question of whether cryptocurrencies are viable out of Reddit threads and into the world …
T-Mobile calls Comcast ‘irrelevant’ and ‘incompetent,’ but the results disagree
In May last year, Comcast launched Xfinity Mobile, a wireless service that runs on Verizon’s network. Although the cell plans were never designed for widespread …
2017 was a great year for T-Mobile, but things are only just getting started
Last week, T-Mobile reported its results for the last quarter of 2017. Headlining the generally-excellent news was T-Mobile’s subscriber figures, which shows the company added …
Yep, the Essential Phone was a total failure
When the Essential Phone was first announced, it brought hope that someone might break Samsung’s death-hold on the premium Android phone market. After all, here …
Viacom will launch its own streaming service as everyone ditches cable
If you thought the rapid demise of cable bundles was going to mean simpler TV packages and cheaper entertainment, Viacom has some bad news for …
Uber has settled its Waymo lawsuit in the middle of the jury trial
Uber has settled its lawsuit with Waymo over driverless car secrets, Bloomberg News reports. The two companies were in the midst of a jury trial …
Amazon will launch its own delivery service to compete with FedEx, UPS
Amazon may be a one stop shop for home goods, electronics, furniture, clothing and more, but in order to actually get items to your home, …
Taco Bell and KFC are teaming up with Grubhub to deliver food to your home
Sometimes, dreams really do come true. On Thursday morning, Yum! Brands — the parent company of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut — announced that …
Amazon introduces free Whole Foods grocery delivery for Prime members
Amazon announced on Thursday that it will begin delivering groceries from Whole Foods Market through Prime Now in four US cities today. Amazon Prime subscribers …
ESPN confirms its upcoming streaming service is going to majorly suck
Next month, Disney will launch ESPN Plus, a long-awaited streaming service tied to ESPN‘s impressive sports lineup. But don’t go getting too excited yet, because …
Former Apple CEO Sculley: Apple’s still got it
In the wake of Apple reporting record quarterly earnings thanks in part to the high price tag of the iPhone X, former Apple CEO John …
Snapchat did something good for once
Shares of Snap, the parent company of teen app darling Snapchat, skyrocketed following some rare good news for the company. Q4 2017 earnings beat Wall …
Closer regulation of Bitcoin is needed, federal agencies say
Bitcoin is in a bad place right now. The crypto-currency has fallen from a high of nearly $20,000 in December to around $6,500 today, making …
Uber throws former self-driving car guru Andrew Levandowski to the wolves
The courtroom trial between Uber and Waymo over stolen self-driving car secrets starts today, and no-one is more important than Andrew Levandowski. Once an engineer …
Verizon sweeps JD Power wireless survey for third straight year
Every year, JD Power surveys nearly 40,000 customers from across the US on the perceived quality of their wireless network provider. And for the last …
Google is building a hardware empire that extends beyond Pixel phones
At the highest level, Google and Apple are opposites. Apple is a hardware company that uses software and services to lock customers into its ecosystem. …
Here’s how Wall Street reacted to Apple’s Q1 earnings
Apple’s fiscal first-quarter earnings report was the very definition of a mixed bag. On one hand, the company managed to rake in record revenue totaling $88.3 …
The ‘failing’ iPhone X pushed Apple’s manufacturing partner to its best December in years
Foxconn, Apple’s primary iPhone assembler and the company’s biggest manufacturing partner, reported December revenue that was up 50 percent year-on-year, largely driven by iPhone X …
CEO of alleged $600 million crypto fraud: ‘I can sleep at night knowing that I did my best’
Crypto-currencies are, to put it mildly, exploding right now. The rise of Bitcoin is thoroughly documented, but a hundred thousands other companies are piling it …
2018 could finally be the year Sprint’s network becomes good
Sprint has comfortably occupied the plucky underdog role among wireless carriers for the last five years. Its low prices and cheeky ads are out of …
Nintendo Switch lifetime sales have already topped those of the Wii U
In just ten months, the Nintendo Switch has surpassed its predecessor’s lifetime sales. More Switch consoles have been sold than the Wii U managed to …
$1,000 iPhone X was called crazy – now people are worried iPhone prices won’t keep rising
Talk about “damned if you do, damned if you don’t.” Apple unveiled the tenth-anniversary iPhone X last September, and people lost their minds when the …
Apple ‘vindicated’ as iPhone X is a top-three best-seller globally
The week started off on a note of doom and gloom for Apple. A report from Nikkei Asian Review yesterday suggested that Apple had cut its iPhone …
US government investigating Apple over iPhone slowdowns, report says
The US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have opened an investigation into whether Apple violated securities disclosure laws by releasing software …
Take a photo tour of the new indoor tropical forest in Amazon’s $4 billion urban campus
Amazon’s upcoming new second corporate headquarters might be the biggest story surrounding Amazon’s expansion plans right now, but HQ2 isn’t the only exciting new building …
Streaming services will have to pay more for music, government decides
Streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music might be about to get more expensive, thanks to a decision from the Copyright Royalty Board. The CRB, …
Average smartphone prices are way up, thanks to the iPhone X and Galaxy Note 8
2017 was a bumper year for flagship phones. The Galaxy Note series was back after the Galaxy Note 7 battery debacle, and Apple released the …
World’s top insider is probably wrong about why Apple is discontinuing the iPhone X
There is plenty of talk about Apple’s iPhone X on Tuesday morning, and it’s unusually negative. A note to investors sent by KGI Securities analyst …
