• Uber passenger who alleged Delhi rape sues in US

    Uber passenger who alleged Delhi rape sues in US
    A passenger who says she was raped and sexually assaulted by an Uber driver in New Delhi has sued Uber in a U.S. court, alleging that the company was negligent and that its commitment to passenger safety comes second to profits.The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in San Francisco, asserts that a more thorough background check by Uber would have discovered two prior accusations of rape against the driver. It also says the company should have spotted that the police-endorsed “character certificate
  • Bellwether Companies Are Buying Startups to Grab Tech and Talent

    Bellwether Companies Are Buying Startups to Grab Tech and Talent
    Maybe it's time to buy a startup. You have a mandate to innovate as you transform your company to a digital enterprise, whatever that entails. Yet 74 percent of CIOs find it challenging to balance business innovation and operational excellence, according to our 2015 State of the CIO research. Maybe an injection of entrepreneurs and their inventive new technology can help.You may also be having trouble finding talent in analytics, mobile development and social media. This year will bring short
  • Southwest Airlines’ CTO Talks About Tech and Business Transformation

    Southwest Airlines’ CTO Talks About Tech and Business Transformation
    Craig Maccubbin is CTO of Southwest Airlines, which is already the largest domestic airline in the U.S. and still growing rapidly. He has 500 employees in his technology operations organization, out of about 1,000 employees in technology overall, and he reports to the CIO along with peers in operations, commercial, enterprise management and product solutions. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Maccubbin to learn about technology management in this high pressure envir
  • Nederlandse organisaties Europees koploper in gebruik publieke cloud

    Zes op de tien bedrijven migreren naar de cloud vanwege kostenbesparing en vier op de tien omwille van flexibiliteit en schaalbaarheid. Veiligheid van data blijft een punt van zorg, al lijken Nederlandse IT-beslissers op dit punt minder argwaan te koesteren. Hierop duidt een enquête van Barracuda Networks naar de... lees meer
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  • Markt voor e-discovery verandert sterk door beveiliging, wereldwijde onderzoeken, nieuwe regelgeving

    Leverancier van e-discovery-oplossingen Kroll Ontrack verwacht dat dit jaar vijf trends de markt voor e-discovery zullen opschudden: cybersecurity, toenemend elektronisch bewijsmateriaal, globalisering van juridische risico’s, nieuwe wetgeving en een groter bereik van e-discovery door sociale media en mobiele... lees meer
  • Renewable Energy Costs Expected to Drop 40% in Next Few Years

    Renewable Energy Costs Expected to Drop 40% in Next Few Years
    The cost of generating power from renewable energy sources has reached parity or dropped below the cost of fossil fuels in many parts of the world, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
    IRENA's report, "Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2014, states that biomass, hydropower, geothermal and onshore wind are all competitive with or cheaper than coal, oil and gas-fired power stations, even without financial support and despite falling oil prices. Th
  • Android Apostates Account for 1-in-5 U.S. iPhone Sales

    Android Apostates Account for 1-in-5 U.S. iPhone Sales
    Apple CEO Tim Cook may have tapped Android "switchers" as part of the reason for the boffo iPhone sales last quarter, but a survey implied that most of those defectors lived outside the U.S.
    The same poll illustrated that in the U.S. iPhones are increasingly sold to current Apple customers.
    Earlier this week, as Cook called the quarter "staggering" and "hard to comprehend," he said that the "switcher rate" -- the proportion of first-time iPhone buyers deserting Google's Android -- was higher
  • FCC Banks Nearly $45 Billion in Landmark AWS-3 Spectrum Auction

    FCC Banks Nearly $45 Billion in Landmark AWS-3 Spectrum Auction
    The FCC announced today that Auction 97 spectrum auction has closed after roughly two and a half months, with winning bids totaling $44.9 billion for the 65MHz of mostly AWS-3 range. That figure is far and away the highest ever seen in a spectrum auction.
    The AWS-3 spectrum is called paired spectrum, which in this case sits between 1755MHz and 1780MHz for the uplink portion and 2155MHz and 2180MHz for the downlink. These frequency sets occupy a valuable middle ground for wireless carriers �
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  • Scientists Say AI Fears Unfounded, Could Hinder Tech Advances

    Scientists Say AI Fears Unfounded, Could Hinder Tech Advances
    Artificial intelligence research – for at least the foreseeable future – is going to help humans, not harm them.
    However, fears about artificial intelligence (AI) and the development of smart robots that have made headlines recently could slow research into an important technology.
    That's the thinking from AI researchers and industry analysts attending the AAAI-15 conference in Austin, Texas, this week.
    "People who are alarmed are thinking way ahead," said Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen
  • Social Engineering Stories From the Front Lines

    Social Engineering Stories From the Front Lines
    It’s always amazing how little attention social engineering attacks get when discussing enterprise information security risks. After all, it’s usually easier to get an unsuspecting employee to click on a link than it is to find an exploitable vulnerability on a reasonably hardened webserver. Social engineering attacks come from many different angles: from targeted e-mails, phone call pretexting, or acting like a service technician or other innocuous person to obtain access to the IT reso
  • 9 Common Security Awareness Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)

    9 Common Security Awareness Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)
    Every recent study of security vulnerabilities has come to the same conclusion: The human factor is a greater risk to organizations than flaws in technology.
    And that, most experts agree, is in large measure due to a lack of security awareness – people are either unaware of increasingly sophisticated threats, or they get careless.
    There is, of course, no such thing as 100% security. But it could be a lot better if workers at every level, in every organization, avoided the common security a
  • Google misses with Q4 sales and earnings

    Google misses with Q4 sales and earnings
    Google disappointed Wall Street with its fourth quarter results, missing expectations for both sales and earnings, and growing its advertising business more slowly.Total revenue for the period ended Dec. 31 was US$18.1 billion, up 15 percent from the same period in 2013, Google reported Thursday. But after subtracting traffic acquisition costs, which is the portion of revenue shared with Google’s partners, the company reported sales of $14.48 billion, well below analysts’ consensus expect
  • Mayors of Boston, Seattle, KC, Others: No More Muni Broadband Restrictions, Please

    Mayors of Boston, Seattle, KC, Others: No More Muni Broadband Restrictions, Please
    A group of 38 mayors and other elected officials from cities like Boston, Seattle, and Kansas City Thursday urged the FCC to strike down state laws that restrict the development of public high-speed Internet services and allow municipal networks to flourish.
    In an open letter to the FCC commissioners, the Next Century Cities group emphasized the importance of universal access to high-speed Internet services.
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  • 5 Affordable Hardware Upgrades for a More Efficient New Year

    5 Affordable Hardware Upgrades for a More Efficient New Year
    It’s the start of a new year, and what better way to kick it off than to upgrade your business PC to work faster and more efficiently?Granted, in the era of BYOD, workstations are not as popular as they once were. However, it remains a fact that desktops deliver more oomph for the same dollars, even as they offer significantly more options than laptops for upgrading. Moreover, they make excellent companions to laptops for users who work across multiple devices.[Related: Why Your Workers Hat
  • Feds go after operator of revenge porn site

    Feds go after operator of revenge porn site
    U.S. federal regulators are clamping down on revenge porn, taking aim at a website whose operator allegedly deceived women into sending intimate photos of themselves and then charged them to have the pictures removed.Craig Brittain operated isanybodydown.com, which displayed the images, and offered a “content removal service” that charged women between US$200 and $500 to have their images and personal information deleted from the site, according to a complaint filed against him by the U.S
  • FBI consultant: Silk Road founder carried millions worth of bitcoins on laptop

    FBI consultant: Silk Road founder carried millions worth of bitcoins on laptop
    The man accused of masterminding the Silk Road underground online marketplace had between $16 million and $18 million worth of bitcoins on the laptop he was using when he was arrested in October 2013, federal prosecutors testified in Manhattan federal court Thursday.Nearly 90 percent of the 144,000 bitcoins found on the laptop of Ross Ulbricht were transferred there from Silk Road servers, according to the testimony of Ilhwan Yum, who was part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s probe
  • Wi-Fi issues continue to hamper OS X users despite updates

    Wi-Fi issues continue to hamper OS X users despite updates
    Apple’s efforts this week to remedy the Wi-Fi connectivity issues plaguing many OS X users produced mediocre results, judging by comments left in Apple’s support forum.Immediately following the Oct. 16 public release of Mac OS X Yosemite, an undetermined but substantial number of users took to discussion forums and social media to report that the OS crippled and in some cases disabled their machine’s Wi-Fi capabilities. As of Thursday, the thread “OSX Yosemite Wifi issues” on Apple�
  • FCC redefines advanced broadband as 25 Mbps, Republicans blow a gasket

    FCC redefines advanced broadband as 25 Mbps, Republicans blow a gasket
    The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has redefined advanced broadband as having 25Mbps download speeds, up from 4Mbps, giving the agency new authority to pass rules to encourage deployment across the country.The FCC, in a 3-2 party-line vote Thursday, also determined that this newly-defined advanced broadband wasn’t being rolled out in a timely manner across the U.S. The agency released a notice of inquiry asking how it can accelerate broadband deployment, but didn’t offer concrete
  • LightCyber Rolls Out New Features for Endpoint Malware Detection Platform

    LightCyber Rolls Out New Features for Endpoint Malware Detection Platform
    LightCyber, another security startup with the roots in the Israeli military, has opened its doors in the U.S. and is announcing new products and features to make its mark in the crowded field of endpoint detection and remediation.
    The company’s Magna Breach Detection Platform monitors and analyzes network traffic as well as activity on Windows endpoints in search of anomalous behavior that they can identify as malware.
    So far it’s having pretty good success in North America, with about 4
  • Apple now neck-and-neck with Samsung after monster quarter

    Apple now neck-and-neck with Samsung after monster quarter
    The huge popularity of the new iPhone 6 pushed Apple and Samsung closer than ever at the top of the market for smartphones, according to two companies that closely track shipments of the devices.Earlier this week, Apple said it sold 74.5 million iPhones in the last three months of 2014 and on Thursday Samsung said it sold 95 million phones. That means Samsung remains the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, but its numbers include both smartphones and feature phones.Samsung doesn’t break o
  • The end for 1024-bit SSL certificates is near, Mozilla kills a few more

    The end for 1024-bit SSL certificates is near, Mozilla kills a few more
    Website owners take notice: In weeks, Mozilla products including its popular Firefox browser will stop trusting an unknown number of SSL certificates that were issued using old root CA certificates with 1024-bit RSA keys.The move is part of the organization’s efforts that started in September to force certificate authorities (CAs) and their customers to stop using 1024-bit certificates, which are considered cryptographically unsafe because of advances in computing power.“If you manage an
  • Google Gives VMware Huge Public Cloud Boost

    Google Gives VMware Huge Public Cloud Boost
    VMware announced a partnership with Google Thursday that could go a long way toward making VMware more competitive in the public cloud market.
    By enabling its vCloud Air public cloud service to work with Google’s massive public cloud platform, VMware will expose its customers to Google services such as object storage, BigQuery, Cloud Datastore database and DNS platform. Google services will be integrated with vCA by mid-year, the companies said.
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  • BrandPost: How Durable Is Your Data? For Safety, Consider Object Storage

    BrandPost: How Durable Is Your Data? For Safety, Consider Object Storage
    Your business generates more and more information every day. So you need more and better storage.
    According to SINTEF—the largest research organisation in Scandinavia—90% of the world’s data was generated over the previous two years. Another 2.16 exabytes of new data are added to the pile every day, a New Jersey Institute of Technology report shows.
    Companies increasingly rely on these massive data troves to make decisions and interact with customers, and when the data is good, results
  • Alibaba calls Chinese regulatory report unfair, as customer numbers grow

    Alibaba calls Chinese regulatory report unfair, as customer numbers grow
    Alibaba Group bristled at a Chinese government report critical of its e-commerce business, calling it an “unfair” attack, and defended ongoing efforts to stamp out counterfeit goods from its retail sites.On Wednesday, China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) issued a scathing report, alleging that Alibaba’s e-commerce sites had become rife with counterfeit goods and other illegal activities.The Chinese regulator claimed Alibaba had been too slow to act, and that t
  • Samsung Gear VR Will Provide First-Class Entertainment on Quantas Flights

    Samsung Gear VR Will Provide First-Class Entertainment on Quantas Flights
    It wasn’t that long ago that talk of using virtual reality headsets on long-haul flights was pure speculation. Now it’s about to become, well, reality—a prospect that would make Best Buy’s lawyers gasp. Australia’s national airline Qantas recently announced it would begin a three-month trial with Samsung's Gear VR headsets on select flights.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  • CEO Says IT Fuels Investment Advice

    CEO Says IT Fuels Investment Advice
    For Mark Casady, CEO of LPL Financial, IT is essential to adviser efficiency and the best customer experience.How is technology changing LPL as a business? Technology is affecting LPL in terms of efficiency, transparency and consumer expectations. We are replacing key technologies, including document management, performance reporting, a portfolio rebalancing tool and cashiering technologies, to help our employees operate more efficiently.Our new mobile AccountView gives our clients--financial
  • BrandPost: The Top 5 Traits of Successful Digital Enterprises

    BrandPost: The Top 5 Traits of Successful Digital Enterprises
    Ecommerce is expanding significantly, with U.S. online sales expected to grow from $263 billion in 2013 to $414 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of 9.5 percent, according to Forrester research. This is pushing the need for businesses to continue to transform their business processes, technologies and even organizational structures, and to become “digital enterprises.”Digital enterprises are those organizations who integrate new technology and business models that engage digi
  • BrandPost: Taking a Look at Microsoft’s Support Roadmap

    As that old sage Yogi Berra once said, “It’s like deja vu all over again.” Last year around this time everyone was gearing up for End of Life for Windows XP, a popular OS to say the least. Now it’s 2015 and time to bid adieu to another popular operating system. Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2, still widely used, will be coming off Extended Support on July 14 of this year. Time to start thinking about retiring those older servers. You might also be interested to know that Mainstream S
  • 12 Must-See Devices for Fitness and Sports Enthusiasts

    12 Must-See Devices for Fitness and Sports Enthusiasts
    What’s Hot in Fitness and Sports TechThanks to an expanding roster of new fitness and sports technologies you’ve never had fewer reasons to skip a workout. The 12 devices, mobile apps and sensors featured here do much of the digital heavy lifting for you — but the physical activity is still up to you, of course. Here’s a look at new technologies to help battle back those couch potato tendencies -- as well as two new products that offer assistance for the non-workout types.To read this ar
  • Mozilla puts old hardware to new use, runs Tor relays

    Mozilla puts old hardware to new use, runs Tor relays
    Mozilla has dusted off some decommissioned servers and networking gear and used them to set up high-speed relays on the Tor anonymity network.The plan to run Tor relays was revealed in November, when the software developer announced its Polaris Privacy Initiative, a collaboration with other non-profit organizations to enhance privacy on the Web.One of those organizations was the Tor Project, which develops the client and server software for the Tor anonymity network. As part of the partnershi
  • Office for Android now widely available, with new Outlook apps in tow

    Office for Android now widely available, with new Outlook apps in tow
    Microsoft has made its Word, Excel and Powerpoint apps for Google’s Android OS generally available, and also released new Outlook apps for Android and Apple’s iOS.All three Office apps are available for download from Google’s Play store. The launch is a part of Microsoft’s strategy to become more cross-platform friendly across its entire portfolio of applications and services.That there is an interest was already proved when the company launched Office apps for Apple’s iPads in Marc
  • Why LinkedIn Premium Is Worth the Money

    Why LinkedIn Premium Is Worth the Money
    LinkedIn's premium plans don't come cheap, and they're not an easy sell for many users. However, there's an army of people who pay for the services on a monthly basis. Why do these people pay LinkedIn $30, $60, $80 or even $120 per month for access to its special features and data?
    LinkedIn Premium is a sort of exclusive club for job seekers, recruiters and sales professionals, and the fees can be considered vanity costs. Some LinkedIn users quickly decide to return to the free version, but
  • AllSeen IoT group acts to head off patent wars

    AllSeen IoT group acts to head off patent wars
    Vendors that contribute software to the AllJoyn Internet of Things project will pledge not to sue companies that make use of that code in products.The pledges are prescribed in new language being added to the policies of the AllSeen Alliance, which promotes AllJoyn, a software framework for building compatible connected products.The group, which includes Qualcomm, Microsoft, Cisco Systems and more than 100 other vendors, is adopting a patent policy for the first time. The language will be ann
  • Microsoft Kicks Off C# 7 Language Planning

    Microsoft Kicks Off C# 7 Language Planning
    Designers are off and running with plans for the next generation of Microsoft’s C# language, with key themes centering on data management, performance, and reliability.
    According to meeting notes for the C# team, posted earlier this month on GitHub, the team is looking beyond the planned version 6.0 of the type-safe, object-oriented language. As posted by Microsoft’s Mads Torgerson, a design team member, the notes say: “This is the first design meeting for the version of C# coming afte
  • Intel wants to banish cables, connectors with new Broadwell chips

    Intel wants to banish cables, connectors with new Broadwell chips
    Bring a laptop into the room, and it wirelessly links to your monitors, external hard drive and printer. That’s Intel’s vision of a wire-free world for PCs with its new Core chips based on the Broadwell microarchitecture.Intel announced Thursday the availability of the new fifth-generation Core processors for PCs with support for technologies that could rid computers of a myriad of cables and connectors. The chips are targeted at business laptops, desktops and mini-PCs.Laptops with the Br
  • Microsoft Previews OneDrive for Business for the Mac

    Microsoft Previews OneDrive for Business for the Mac
    Microsoft on Wednesday released the promised preview of OneDrive for Business for OS X, the first way to sidestep the browser when accessing company documents and the only way so far to sync files for offline use on a Mac.
    The app requires an Office 365 business-grade subscription, and can replace in most instances the browser UI (user interface) that was previously the only available to OS X users.
    A week ago, Microsoft pledged to ship a preview of OneDrive for Business and an updated OneDr
  • Microsoft Continues Cross-Platform Tear, Releases Outlook for iOS, Android

    Microsoft Continues Cross-Platform Tear, Releases Outlook for iOS, Android
    Microsoft today launched Outlook for iOS and Android, a rebranded version of startup Acompli's app, to replace the oft-derided Outlook Web App (OWA) as the go-to mobile email client for Office 365 users.
    Microsoft acquired Acompli late last year for a reported $200 million, then immediately folded its developers into the Outlook team and made its former CEO and co-founder Javier Soltero a general manager in the group. At the time, Microsoft said that Acompli Email would be blended "with work
  • Apple hits Samsung at home, where it hurts

    Apple hits Samsung at home, where it hurts
    Apple is getting closer to matching Samsung Electronics on its home turf, as it has done with other East Asian rivals.Apple had a record-high 20 percent of the South Korean smartphone market in the last quarter of 2014, up from 11 percent a year earlier, according to Strategy Analytics.It’s an embarrassing development for Samsung, which has seen its mobile fortunes wither since the release of the iPhone 6.“The South Korean market is seeing a changing of the guard,” Strategy Analytics an
  • The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, January 29

    The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, January 29
    Samsung’s profit slides as mobile power wanesSamsung Electronics’ smartphone business saw a slide in operating profit of 64 percent in fourth quarter results reported Thursday, as competition from Apple at the high end and Xiaomi and Lenovo at the low end cut into business. But its semiconductor business improved thanks to increased demand for its DRAM. Overall, net profit fell for the third quarter in a row, this time by 27 percent from a year earlier.To read this article in full or to l
  • Information Security: 3 Key Governance Challenges for the CIO - The C Suite

    The C Suite
    Information Security: 3 Key Governance Challenges for the CIO
    The C Suite
    Blending information security with the portfolio of another IT executive, or pushing the CISO role further down in the charts, is simply a recipe for failure - fuelling the de-prioritisation of information security matters and further widening the gap ...

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  • Is this North Korea? Chinese netizens squirm as party tightens grip on Internet. - Washington Post

    Is this North Korea? Chinese netizens squirm as party tightens grip on Internet. - Washington Post
    Washington Post
    Is this North Korea? Chinese netizens squirm as party tightens grip on Internet.
    Washington Post
    “China's long-term goal is to make the Internet act like an intranet, cutting off access to all encrypted sites, so that government bureaucrats can tap into anything that anyone is saying, at any time,” said one foreign IT executive, who spoke on the ...

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  • 10 Signs You’ve Been Coding Too Much For Too Long

    10 Signs You’ve Been Coding Too Much For Too Long
    Image by Tim ReganEditor's Note: If you are unable to advance to the next slide, try disabling AdBlock. We apologize for the inconvenience.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  • Hands on With the Windows 10 Preview: What Works, What Doesn’t

    Hands on With the Windows 10 Preview: What Works, What Doesn’t
    The pros and cons of the latest Windows 10 technical previewThe latest Windows 10 technical preview version — aka build 9926 — is now available for beta testers, and it showcases both compelling new capabilities and questionable design decisions that I hope get rethought before the final Windows 10 version ships this fall.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  • Big Data's New Impact on Customer Care - Promotion World (press release)

    Big Data's New Impact on Customer Care
    Promotion World (press release)
    In 1999, IT executive Kevin Ashton first coined the term "Internet of Things" (IoT) to describe the network of devices that we are seeing interconnected throughout the world. IoT and big data have opened up a new world to customer care in which people ...

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  • US targets mobile operator for deceptive data promises

    US targets mobile operator for deceptive data promises
    TracFone Wireless, the largest prepaid mobile provider in the U.S., has agreed to refund US$40 million to customers to settle charges that it throttled bandwidth or cut off consumer data connections, despite promising “unlimited” data service as a marketing tool.The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that from 2009 TracFone, which sold unlimited prepaid monthly plans for about $45 per month, under the Straight Talk, Net10, Simple Mobile, and Telcel America brands, slowed or cut
  • Samsung smartphone business sees profit slide, some hopes in DRAM

    Samsung smartphone business sees profit slide, some hopes in DRAM
    Samsung Electronics’ operating profit in its mobile business slid 64 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014, the result largely of competition in the Chinese market where it struggles against rising brands like Xiaomi.The South Korean company sold 95 million handsets and shipped 11 million tablets in the quarter, it said during its earnings conference. The company did not disclose the number of smartphones sold globally, but it is expected to be around 75 million, according to Lee Seung-woo,
  • Congo restores Internet to banks, gov't agencies but public block remains

    Congo restores Internet to banks, gov't agencies but public block remains
    Internet service has been restored to government agencies and banks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but otherwise a government shutdown of email, social media and mobile phone services, ordered on Jan. 19, remains in effect.The DRC government moved to block communications in an attempt to quell public protests and clashes that left more than 45 people dead and over 1,000 injured.As in other countries in Africa including Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi, the government claims the Internet and
  • Boosted by iPhone 6 sales, Apple ties with Samsung for top smartphone rank

    Boosted by iPhone 6 sales, Apple ties with Samsung for top smartphone rank
    The iPhone 6 has sold so well that Apple tied with Samsung for the top position in the smartphone market in the fourth quarter, closing the gap with its South Korean competitor.Both Apple and Samsung shipped 74.5 million smartphones during the period, each claiming close to 20 percent share of the market, research firm Strategy Analytics said Wednesday.It’s a big change from a year ago, when Apple’s iPhone 5s only helped the company gain a 17.6 percent share of the market, as opposed to S
  • Boosted by iPhone 6 Sales, Apple Ties Samsung for Top Smartphone Rank

    Boosted by iPhone 6 Sales, Apple Ties Samsung for Top Smartphone Rank
    The iPhone 6 has sold so well that Apple tied with Samsung for the top position in the smartphone market in the fourth quarter, closing the gap with its South Korean competitor.
    Both Apple and Samsung shipped 74.5 million smartphones during the period, each claiming close to 20 percent share of the market, research firm Strategy Analytics said Wednesday.
    It’s a big change from a year ago, when Apple’s iPhone 5s only helped the company gain a 17.6 percent share of the market, as opposed t
  • How Facebook is Using Autoplaying Videos and Ad Tech to Make Billions

    How Facebook is Using Autoplaying Videos and Ad Tech to Make Billions
    Scrolling slowly through News Feed, you’ll see a slew of videos. Some are from your friends. Others are ads from brands you like. All of them play automatically. Facebook now sees 3 billion video views a day, a fun fact that could have a huge effect on the network’s bottom line.
    More than 50 percent of American Facebook users who visit the network daily watch one video per day, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said in the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. (It counts as a

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