Flying business class on long flights has never been nicer, often featuring lie-flat seat-beds, large TVs, champagne, fancy meals, Japanese bidet toilets, and walk-up snack bars. Meanwhile, passengers in economy class are getting squeezed—literally, often 10 per row, in narrow seats with knee-crunching legroom and lousy food.
Twitter is inching toward profitability. But this is another example where Facebook’s execution as a public company continues to look particularly impressive—especially relative to Twitter’s.
It was a weird surprise when Amazon unveiled Echo, an internet-connected speaker that listens and talks, in late 2014.
When Google reported its fourth-quarter earnings this week—its first report since reorganizing as Alphabet—arguably the most important number announced was 24%. That is the rate, excluding the effects of foreign currency, that Alphabet’s revenue grew compared to the fourth quarter of 2014. (Including the effects of currency, it grew 18% to $21.3 billion.)
This post has been updated. Alphabet, Google’s new parent company, reported fourth-quarter results today (Feb. 1).
How much revenue did you generate for Facebook last year? That depends on where you live.
Amazon Web Services generated $2.4 billion in revenue during the fourth quarter, the company reported today (Jan. 28), in line with analyst expectations. It generated almost $8 billion in sales over the full year of 2015.
This post has been updated. Apple reported its first-quarter results today. As expected, growth slowed to a halt, thanks in part to foreign currency fluctuations. First-quarter sales reached $75.9 billion, up 2% year-over-year, and the company now has $216 billion in its cash pile.
When Apple reports its first-quarter results today (Jan. 26) after the market closes, it will likely report its highest ever quarterly sales (analysts are forecasting $76.6 billion) and profit (an expected $18 billion).
Vine, the short video platform owned by Twitter, turns three years old this weekend (Jan 24). In commemoration, the company has published a list of the 10 most popular videos—“most-looped,” in Vine parlance—of its third year. (Vine videos are a maximum six seconds long, and loop infinitely.)
One of the coolest things at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month had nothing to do with drones, robots, or self-driving cars.
Time Warner, the big media company, might be up for sale soon, and Apple is “staying extra close to any possible movement on this front,” the New York Post reported today (Jan. 13).
Thousands of technology, media, and advertising executives from around the globe are at the CES trade show this week in Las Vegas to network and conduct business surrounded by futuristic gadgets.
Fitbit, the industry leader in fitness tracking bands, introduced a new product this morning at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Apple became the next version of itself this year.
You’re not alone if you’re having trouble finding cauliflower in US or Canadian grocery stores—or digesting the price, which has recently been observed at $7 per head or more.
Amazon, one of the world’s largest package shippers, may be planning to reduce its dependence on FedEx, UPS, and the US Postal Service with its own overnight freight service.
Apple announced a handful of executive moves and shuffles today (Dec. 17).
DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused web search engine startup, continues to grow rapidly. But it has also struggled to crack the mainstream.
Desktop web search, the product that made Google a household name and created one of the greatest advertising businesses of all time, is now likely in permanent decline.
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is taking a new tack to boost company culture and efficiency: Discouraging unnecessary—and unnecessarily long—internal meetings.
Yahoo is no longer planning to spin off its remaining stake in Alibaba—worth more than $30 billion—the company confirmed today. Instead, it will now attempt a more-complicated “reverse” spin-off of everything else, namely its core Yahoo business and its large stake in Yahoo Japan.
There’s a reason Yahoo’s attempted rebound under Marissa Mayer—looking shaky at the moment—is so improbable: Comebacks are hard and rarely work out. But they’re not impossible.
One of the most active debates in tech right now is how much Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is to blame for her company’s continued stagnation.
