Fitbit shares spiked after their initial public offering today, closing at $29.68, up 50% from their $20 listing price. The enthusiasm suggests investors aren’t overly concerned about Fitbit’s status in the nascent but fast-growing fitness-tracking market, particularly as larger companies—primarily Apple—start to roll in.
Microsoft announced today that executive Stephen Elop will leave the company as part of a restructuring that combines its multiple device groups into one. Elop is the Microsoft executive who left to become Nokia’s CEO in 2010, and then sold Nokia to Microsoft for $7.2 billion in 2013, rejoining the company.
When Apple launched its new, super-thin MacBook laptop in April, much of the initial criticism focused on its having only one port, a new type of USB called USB-C.
Facebook’s Instagram deal keeps looking better.
“We’re looking for someone who really uses and loves the product in every single way.”
The long-awaited shakeup of Twitter’s top leadership has arrived.
Some of the most interesting features Apple unveiled this week for its iOS 9 operating system were new controls specifically designed for the iPad.
Some of the most-used web browsers in the world aren’t really web browsers—they’re in-app browser windows, which pop up on your smartphone when you tap a link in your Facebook or Twitter feed, for example.
Apple unveiled new operating systems and a music streaming service today at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Below is a live commentary track of the event.
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Apple will kick off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference today with one of its trademark keynote events. Here’s what to expect.
Apple will likely reveal new operating systems for the iPhone and Mac, a new music streaming service, and a new app developers kit for the Apple Watch today at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in California. Here’s how to tune in:
I’ve now been wearing the Apple Watch for more than a month, which is long enough to get used to its quirks and start to notice how it fits into my routines. How is it?
China’s rising shopping class has been a huge growth driver for both Apple and the Swiss watch industry.
Many executives have a hard time describing what their companies do. Especially in tech, where concepts are often novel or abstract.
Apple confirmed today that it’s working on fixing one of the initial Apple Watch weaknesses: its apps.
Mary Meeker, the legendary internet stock analyst who’s now a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, delivered her annual “State of the Internet” presentation today at the Code Conference in California. She has released her slides. Here they are:
One of Apple’s most important executives—Jeff Williams, the company’s senior vice president of operations—has been working at Apple for almost two decades, mostly outside the public’s view. Now, as CEO Tim Cook continues to reshape a company that for years was associated with just one executive, Williams is starting to get more face time.
Snapchat has become a mobile video powerhouse, the company asserts in a Bloomberg profile of its young CEO, Evan Spiegel.
Ireland has overwhelmingly voted to approve same-sex marriage in a constitutional referendum. It is the first nation to legalize gay marriage by a popular vote.
Apple Watch pre-orders started with a bang and Apple’s initial inventory quickly sold out. Then US orders immediately fell, and have remained mostly flat since, according to analysis from Slice Intelligence, a company that tracks US consumer spending through e-commerce email receipts.
Apple and Google are expected to unveil significant updates to their mobile operating systems, iOS and Android, within the next few weeks.
As Apple’s first head of retail, Ron Johnson built an empire by designing stores people would actually want to visit, focusing on customer service at almost any cost, and building a high-quality workforce. He then failed to recreate the same sort of magic as CEO of JCPenney, the US department store chain. But now Johnson is back with another spin on retail.
If you were to explain Verizon’s $4.4 billion deal to acquire AOL in one word, it would be: mobile.
