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Number Of Companies Providing Broadband Subsidies Reduced

Posted by Eileen French on Feb 3rd, 2017 // No Comments

The Federal Communications Commission has canceled the participation of nine companies in a federal assistance program that provides broadband to low-income people. Until the announcement, the companies were able to sell broadband-only...

Facebook Reports Strong Results For Fourth Quarter

Posted by Eileen French on Feb 2nd, 2017 // No Comments

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) reported strong results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016. Revenue was up 51 percent year over year as the company reported earning $8.81 billion in revenue in the quarter, reaching earnings...

Twitter Reveals Details Of FBI Letters For First Time

Posted by Eileen French on Jan 30th, 2017 // No Comments

Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) recently posted information online about two national security letters it received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that are no longer restricted by a gag order. The letters to Twitter were sent in...

Twitter Announces Online Vine Archive

Posted by Eileen French on Jan 24th, 2017 // No Comments

Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) has launched an online archive of Vine videos containing all the posts made from 2013 through 2016. The company is launching the archive on the old Vine website at Vine.co. Twitter said “the Vine archive...

Tesla Rolling Out Updated Autopilot Software

Posted by Eileen French on Jan 23rd, 2017 // No Comments

Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) has announced that it is rolling out its Autopilot software to Model S and Model X cars built since October, which are equipped with second-generation Autopilot hardware. Tesla has been preparing the...

Breakthrough In Battery Development May Prevent Fires

Posted by Eileen French on Jan 17th, 2017 // No Comments

Stanford University researchers say that they have successfully created a lithium-ion battery with built-in flame suppression. The researchers claim that the flame retardant can extinguish any flames caused by the overheated...

Snap Inc. Performance Questioned Ahead Of IPO

Posted by Eileen French on Jan 5th, 2017 // No Comments

A former Snap Inc. employee has filed a lawsuit claiming that the company hasn’t been honest about its pre-IPO performance metrics. The suit was filed with the L.A. County Superior Court. The filer of the lawsuit, Anthony...

Many Favorite Disney Movies Are Coming To Hulu

Posted by Eileen French on Dec 28th, 2016 // No Comments

Hulu has announced reaching a multi-year licensing agreement with Disney (NYSE:DIS) that will bring family favorites like Mulan, Pocahontas, and The Nightmare Before Christmas to the service. The deal gives the service exclusive...

Amazon Reportedly Developing App For Truck Shipments

Posted by Eileen French on Dec 16th, 2016 // No Comments

Reports have emerged that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is building an app that would connect truckers with shippers in need of truckers in an “Uber-like” way. Several job postings by the company appear to confirm this. A job posting...

Yahoo Announces Another Massive Security Breach

Posted by Eileen French on Dec 14th, 2016 // No Comments

Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) has broken its own embarrassing record for the biggest security breach in history. Now, the company is saying that a 3-year-old security breach enabled a hacker to compromise more than 1 billion user accounts....

Amazon Unveils Futuristic New Grocery Concept

Posted by Eileen French on Dec 5th, 2016 // No Comments

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has announced the launch of a futuristic new grocery store concept dubbed Amazon Go. The concept aims to take some of the hassles out of grocery shopping by removing two of the greatest obstacles to customer...

NHTSA Proposes New ‘Driver Mode’ For Smartphones

Posted by Eileen French on Nov 23rd, 2016 // No Comments

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has turned its focus to reducing driver distraction from portable devices and other gear designed to be connected to your car. The agency has now published its first...

Apple Announces Replacement Programs To Fix iPhone Issues

Posted by Eileen French on Nov 21st, 2016 // No Comments

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has launched a new official repair program to address the iPhone 6s’s unexpected shutdown issue. Over the weekend, the company confirmed that some customers were seeing their phones unceremoniously switch...

Facebook Develops New Inbox Feature For Businesses

Posted by Eileen French on Nov 16th, 2016 // No Comments

Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) is rolling out a new feature that allows businesses to manage their separate Facebook platforms from a single point. Soon, businesses using Facebook Pages will be able to link inboxes across Facebook, Messenger,...

Twitter Tackles Harassment With A Better Mute Button

Posted by Eileen French on Nov 15th, 2016 // No Comments

One of the biggest benefits of Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) is that it’s open to everyone and every opinion. This has allowed millions of people to bring attention to noteworthy causes and important issues that wouldn’t have reached...

Siemens To Pay $4B For Mentor Graphics

Posted by Eileen French on Nov 14th, 2016 // No Comments

Siemens AG (SIEGY) has announced reaching a deal to buy semiconductor-design software company Mentor Graphics Corp. (MENT) for $37.25 per share in cash, or roughly $4 billion. The complete deal values Mentor at about $4.5 billion,...

Twitter Changes Coming After Slowdown In Revenue Growth

Posted by Eileen French on Oct 27th, 2016 // No Comments

Twitter Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) reported a sharp slowdown in quarterly revenue growth for the third quarter of its fiscal year. Twitter reported third-quarter revenue of $616 million and non-GAAP earnings of 13 cents a share, beating...

Time Warner Worth $85.4B To AT&T

Posted by Eileen French on Oct 24th, 2016 // No Comments

AT&T (NYSE:T) has bid $85.4 billion to purchase Time Warner (NYSE:TWX). Time Warner is getting $107.50 a share, with half of the deal in AT&T stock and half in cash. That is almost 40 percent more than investors thought...

Airlines Restrict Samsung Galaxy Note 7s Aboard Planes

Posted by Eileen French on Oct 17th, 2016 // No Comments

Airlines and the federal government are beginning to restrict passengers from bringing Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 smartphones aboard commercial aircraft. The new rules were created by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety...

Yahoo Users Can No Longer Set Automatic Mail Forwarding

Posted by Eileen French on Oct 11th, 2016 // No Comments

Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) has turned off automatic email forwarding for Yahoo Mail users. Yahoo posted on its help pages that mail forwarding is currently under development. In a statement, Yahoo said, “Users can expect an update...

BlackBerry Pulls Plug On Hardware Business

Posted by Eileen French on Sep 28th, 2016 // No Comments

BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) will no longer be making its own phones. The production of BlackBerry devices now will be outsourced to third-party manufacturers, according to a statement from the company made on Wednesday. CEO John...

Google Releases New Messaging App

Posted by Eileen French on Sep 22nd, 2016 // No Comments

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced Allo, its latest messaging app, in May at the Google I/O confab. Now, the app is available for free for iOS and Android phones. Allo looks similar to many other messaging apps already on the market....

Increasing Demand Raises Intel’s Fortunes

Posted by Eileen French on Sep 19th, 2016 // No Comments

Increasing demand for personal computers has resulted in Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) raising its quarterly revenue forecast for the first time in more than two years. Global PC shipments fell less than expected in the second quarter,...

Tesla Autopilot Upgrade Coming In Next Two Weeks

Posted by Eileen French on Sep 12th, 2016 // No Comments

Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) has announced that a software upgrade to its Autopilot system will be coming in the next two weeks. The upgrade will help the system improve the use of radar signals to guide Tesla vehicles along...

New Cable Box Rules Proposed By FCC

Posted by Eileen French on Sep 9th, 2016 // No Comments

New rules from the Federal Communications Commission designed to open up the market for television set-top boxes are sure to spark a backlash from large cable companies and other pay-TV providers. Under the plan, pay television...

Samsung Recalls All Galaxy Note 7 Devices

Posted by Eileen French on Sep 2nd, 2016 // No Comments

On Friday morning, Samsung announced that it will recall every Galaxy Note 7 produced to date. According to reports, 1 million Note 7 handsets have been built at this point. The device has been on sale worldwide for just two...

Fitbit Revamps Two Popular Models

Posted by Eileen French on Aug 29th, 2016 // No Comments

Fitbit (NYSE:FIT) unveiled the new Charge 2 activity tracker today, the successor to the popular Charge HR, its best-selling wearable to date. The Charge 2 is the same price as the Charge HR at $149. However, the display on...

Alphabet Orders Staff Cuts To Google Fiber

Posted by Eileen French on Aug 26th, 2016 // No Comments

Reports have emerged that Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) CEO Larry Page has ordered staff cuts to Google Fiber as the division has fallen well short of subscriber goals. The unit has reportedly only signed up 200,000 subscribers by...

Apple Will Replace Pistol with Squirt Gun Emoji in iOS 10 Update, this Fall

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on Aug 2nd, 2016 // No Comments

It seems like every day the powers that be add new emoji to the growing alphabet of digital texting symbols. Indeed, we can now send little icons for just about anything, despite the fact that many symbols will probably never...

Apple Brings Former Blackberry Exec To Self-Driving Car Division

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on Jul 29th, 2016 // No Comments

In the tech world, it is not often you hear that Blackberry is on the cutting edge of product development; at least, not anymore. While the company is certainly not out of the business, their devices have been overshadowed over...

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