Fitbit, which makes fitness tracking hardware and software, is going public with strong sales and growth. Last year, the company sold 11 million of its activity sensor gadgets, more than double its 2013 total. Revenue and profits are looking good, too.
In-flight internet access is the ultimate first world problem: the magical ability to get online from 38,000 feet still often feels infuriatingly slow. Yet despite poor performance, it has also gotten more expensive.
Dave Goldberg, a popular and respected Silicon Valley entrepreneur and executive, and husband of Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, died last night (May 1). Goldberg was the long-time CEO of SurveyMonkey. Previously, he founded an early digital music startup, which Yahoo acquired.
One of the more impressive things about Facebook is that it keeps steadily growing, despite its already-massive size.
Twitter has built an advertising and data-licensing business that the company expects to generate more than $2 billion in revenue this year. But it’s still in the red.
Now five years old, Apple’s iPad tablet is still the company’s fastest-selling product line of all time. But not for long. As iPad demand has slowed, its cumulative sales curve is likely to fall behind the iPhone’s within the next six months.
Apple reported its second-quarter financial results today, beating most analysts’ expectations. We live-charted the performance here—the latest posts appear at the top of the feed.
The Apple Watch launched today in nine countries after a long, dramatic, celebrities-on-Instagram-fueled lead-up. Early stock sold out in pre-orders two weeks ago, despite blasé initial reviews.
Amazon has just revealed the size of its near-decade-old cloud computing business for the first time: Amazon Web Services generated $5.2 billion over the past four quarters, and almost $700 million in operating income.
Amazon’s cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services, has revolutionized the way software is created and how technology startups are formed. Now, some nine years after its launch, AWS has grown large enough that Amazon will start to report its revenue and profitability as a separate business segment. This could happen as late as Amazon’s first-quarter earnings report—scheduled to be released Thursday, April 23, after the market closes—or in an earlier filing.
Sony Pictures’ thousands of hacked executive emails, published yesterday on Wikileaks, have already highlighted significant drama at the studio.
There were some nice, round-number milestones for Netflix in its first quarter earnings report (pdf).
As Apple prepares to start watch sales on April 24 in nine countries, it has started offering appointments at its retail stores to try on the various sizes and colors it will offer at launch. We attended one of these fittings this past weekend in New York.
Apple’s next big thing is off to a solid start, according to pre-order projections from Slice Intelligence, a firm that tracks and projects US consumer spending through e-commerce email receipts.
The Apple Watch goes on sale April 24 in nine countries—Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, the UK, and the US—and pre-orders start at 12:01 am Pacific time tomorrow, April 10.
The first Apple Watch reviews have landed. (The watch itself goes on sale in nine countries on April 24; pre-orders begin April 10.) We’ve reviewed the reviews, pulling out the most important and interesting bits here.
One of the winners of the mobile revolution has been ARM Holdings, which designs microchips for a variety of devices, from smartphones to fridges to cars.
Apple’s iPad went on sale for the first time five years ago today. Launched by Steve Jobs as a “magical and revolutionary” tablet, the iPad has been an overall huge success for Apple. Here is its story until now, told in five charts.
The rise of two strikingly similar mobile live-video streaming apps—Meerkat and Periscope—has recently provided a thrilling little competition.
The strangest thing happened the other day when I picked up my iPhone 6 Plus: It looked and felt like a normal smartphone—no longer a comically large pocket computer.
Facebook, which thoroughly dominates the current era of the online social networking industry, is setting itself up nicely for the next.
BlackBerry’s turnaround strategy—focusing on software as its smartphone business has declined—has not been pretty. But the worst may be here.
The app of the month is Meerkat, a live video-streaming service that took off just as the annual South by Southwest interactive conference gathered in Texas. Meerkat has only existed for a few weeks, but it already has hundreds of thousands of users, including several Hollywood stars.
American Airlines passengers have noticed one recent improvement during boarding, and after landing: the music is better. Specifically, the airline—now the world’s largest, following its merger with US Airways—has switched to indie rock and pop, away from its previous format of piano muzak covers of top-40 hits.
