Amazon.com Inc’s shares surged on Friday, pushing its stock market value above $700 billion and threatening to eclipse Microsoft Corp, a day after the online retailing behemoth reported blockbuster results.
Amazon’s stock was up 3.7 percent at $1,441 per share in afternoon trade, on track for a record high close...
Telegram’s founder and CEO said Apple removed the company’s controversial messaging apps from the iOS App Store because of content that apparently violated Apple’s guidelines.
“We were alerted by Apple that inappropriate content was made available to our users, and both apps were taken off the App Store,” Pavel Durov...
Snap Inc. just launched a merchandise store. The goal isn’t to make money yet, but it proves the potential for an in-app commerce platform for other brands.
Today the company opened the Snap Store, which lives in the Snapchat app’s Discover section and lets you buy Snapchat merchandise, like a...
Assistant can now set music alarms, a feature that arrived on Amazon's rival Alexa voice assistant in December.
Have a Google Assistant-enabled smart speaker? Your mornings could soon be a little more pleasant.
Google on Thursday announced that Assistant can now set music alarms, a feature that arrived on Amazon's rival...
A few days ago, Apple announced iOS 11.3 and then released the first developer and public betas. They pack various handy new features but the iPhone battery health indicator and the actual toggle that would let you slow down your iPhone when you feel like it were not introduced...
Windows Defender, the anti-malware software that's built in to Windows, is going to start removing utility software that tries to scare users into upgrading, starting in March.
The Windows software ecosystem has a large variety of software of dubious merit that claims to detect and diagnose faults. These programs often...
GoPro has amped up its Plus subscription in a big way. The offering, which was mostly a back-up service for your photos and videos, now comes with device replacement for the same price. GoPro says if you break your camera, it'll replace it for you with no questions asked...
While Microsoft continues to be buoyed by enterprise and cloud services like Azure, chief executive Satya Nadella tried to reassure analysts that Microsoft still has a consumer strategy: Xbox, PC gaming, and devices powered by digital assistants like Cortana. But he wasn't especially convincing.
With the demise of consumer products...
Google’s “featured snippets”—those info boxes at the top of search results that display things like basic biographical information for prominent people, or the wrong way to caramelize onions—have long been a source of confusion. Why, for instance, would Google so confidently state that President Warren G. Harding was a...
Facebook is banning ads that promote cryptocurrency.
In a blog post on Tuesday, the company outlined a new policy prohibiting ads that "promote financial products and services that are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices."
This includes promotional ads for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, as well as Initial Coin...
