Last year was the year of streaming, especially when it comes to music. According to Nielsen's recently released year-in-review Music report, digital streaming services grew a huge amount, taking some of the steam away from digital music sales.
Amazon updated its entire line of readers over the last year, but its basic offering, the original Kindle, updated in 2014, remains a strong, entry-level eReader for those interested in getting rid of, or supplementing, their physical book collection. And the inclusion of a touchscreen makes reading on this slab so much better.
Pinterest, one of the original unicorn startups of Silicon Valley, made a move towards improving diversity at its company on Wednesday, by announcing it had hired its own diversity chief.
Apple is scaling back supply chain orders for the iPhone, according to a new report. The news follows a series of developments that signal what could be the first marked decline in the consumer dominance of the Apple iPhone since its inception.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich took the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show on Tuesday night to deliver the company's keynote speech, which included an impressive update on the company's progress on diversity.
If you're a parent interested in providing some of the best educational software for your kids' mobile devices, you've undoubtedly heard of Tinybop. Its founder and CEO, Raul Gutierrez, has always been interested in software and producing things, but his career followed quite a winding road before his recent success in making imaginative, educational apps for children.
Binge On by T-Mobile isn't a free bonus for customers, it's a throttling strategy that affects all video apps, according to an investigation by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Apple could be forced by its investors to accelerate the recruitment of minority candidates for the company's highest levels of leadership, if a motion proposed by a Latino shareholder is voted on and passed. However, Apple may not allow the vote, as the company is pushing back against the call for more diversity in its top ranks.
After a bad year on Wall Street and a diversity spat with a former senior engineer that went public, Twitter has decided to replace its head of diversity and inclusion.
Just months after publically unveiling an experimental technology that produces next-generation gigabit Internet speeds on cable networks that are already in place throughout much of the country, Comcast's impending super high-speed Internet service has officially gone live -- at least for one Philadelphia-area home.
With the kickoff of Super Bowl 50 now just weeks away, the National Football League and the event's broadcaster CBS have announced a new partnership to bring America's biggest sporting event live to Spanish-speaking fans through ESPN Deportes for the first time.
This week was a busy one for Facebook. It launched a new collaboration with Uber through Messenger, announced changes to its controversial "real name" policy, launched its fast-loading Instant Articles for Android, and finally, Facebook was named the most popular smartphone app of 2015 by a Nielsen report. Meanwhile, Twitter hit an all-time low on Wall Street.
Apple announced a series of big changes at the executive level of the world's most valuable company on Thursday, on the same day that a report indicates sales of the company's biggest moneymaker, the iPhone, could be slumping. Here's a rundown on how the pecking order in Cupertino is changing, and what it means.
Google's self-driving car will be hitting the road soon, as a full-blown for-profit independent company under Google's new umbrella company, Alphabet. The evolution of Google's self-driving car will take a step up in 2016, as Alphabet seeks to compete with Uber through its own self-driving version of a ride-sharing service.
The rumor mill is working at full speed around the ostensible next smartphone release by Apple in early 2016, an entry-level 4-inch iPhone dubbed by the tech press as the iPhone 6C. Here's everything that's been in the grapevine so far.
On the same day that investigators of the ISIS Paris attacks announced to CNN that the perpetrators used encrypted chat apps, including WhatsApp and Telegram, to communicate under the radar of law enforcement, Brazil imposed -- and then subsequently rescinded -- a nationwide ban of WhatsApp for related reasons, at least officially.
Comcast's expansion of data caps into new markets recently created a flood of thousands of complaints to the Federal Communications Commission, as a recent report exposed.
Silicon Valley has a diversity problem, and despite working for a year to create more diverse workplaces with higher levels of Latinos, blacks and women, progress has been slow. But there are bright minds at work on solutions, which is one reason why Facebook COO and LeanIn.org Founder Sheryl Sandberg discussed diversity during an "ask me anything" style Q&A on Quora this week.
Peruvian born wunderkind Pedro Espinoza was raised an entrepreneur from the start. But he also had a life-changing experience working with a charity in his youth, and wanted more of that feeling. With SmileyGo, a data-driven startup founded by Espinoza last year, he plans to bring both worlds together, streamlining the connections between big businesses and nonprofits.
Last week, Sprint promoted its head of Hispanic advertising to Chief Marketing Officer of the company, in what might be the end of an ongoing front office shuffle that has seen two people fill and vacate the CMO position in the last year and a half. The move also points to a more concerted effort from Sprint to reach the growing and tech-savvy Latino market in the U.S.
Every year, Samsung and Apple try to outdo each other in innovation, in the rival companies' quest for market dominance. Now it appears Samsung is planning to create its own pressure sensitive touchscreen, a la the Apple iPhone 6s's 3D Touch, when it releases its next flagship, the Samsung Galaxy S7, next spring.
The biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Marissa Mayer and more, have spoken up against Trump's proposal for deporting millions of immigrants in a new FWD.us campaign called "11 Million Stories."
As Congress is rounding out its session for 2015, all signs point to a bipartisan agreement in both houses to permanently prevent state and local taxes on Internet service.
