The Apple Store is an incredible retail success.
In just one quarter last year, nearly 100 million people shopped at the company's 424 global stores. According to the San Jose Mercury News, Apple stores generate more revenue per square foot than any other...
Given its ubiquity in the smartphone world, it’s not surprising that the iPhone has become a kind of centralized remote control for a wide range of devices, from televisions and stereo systems to intelligent lightbulbs and thermostats — and...
Google is bringing its Chromecast streaming stick to yet another country: Chromecast will officially go on sale in Japan on Wednesday, according to a report from Engadget Japan. Google introduced the device with a local press event Tuesday, and has started...
Europe vs. Google. On matters such as privacy, copyright and free information, the Web needs rules. Which ones are really necessary? And who writes them?
“The right to be forgotten was a concept that was wrong since the beginning: instead...
Microsoft announced a new version of Windows on Friday, Windows 8.1 with Bing, that will be sold only to hardware makers. The idea is to take advantage of lower system requirements in Windows 8.1 and provide a lower-cost operating system...
Facebook began rolling out one of its most monumental upgrades two days ago, as revolutionary in its own way as the Like button. But most longterm observers of the social network missed its true significance
The upgrade came in the form...
Uber has scored a major coup in hiring away a New York taxi regulator from the agency that once kept the company’s ride-hailing service off the city’s streets.
Ashwini Chhabra, deputy commissioner for policy and planning at New York City’s...
The race is on to capture the fledgling smartwatch market but to the extent that there's already a winner, it seems to be Samsung.
A new report by market researcher Strategic Analysis finds that smartwatch shipments grew 250 percent from Q1 2014...
Amazon and Microsoft are definitely partners — users can run a bunch of Microsoft software on AWS — but the companies are increasingly at odds now that Microsoft Azure has AWS-like Infrastructure-as-a-Service capabilities. That’s probably why Microsoft added Amazon to the list...
YouTube is about to announce the acquisition of Twitch for $1 billion, according to a Variety report. Twitch, which offers users a way to stream and watch live video game action, would be YouTube’s biggest acquisition to date, and help the Google-owned...
As if Facebook could get any more invasive, there's a new button that users have been noticing next to the "Relationship Status" field on their friends' profiles.
It's an "Ask" button.
For users who have chosen to leave their status empty,...
Google announced Tuesday that it's opening up its Explorer Program to more people.
If you have $1,500 to burn and live in the U.S., you, too, can own one of the more controversial tech devices we've seen since perhaps the iPad....
While drones are unlikely to become a part of our daily lives in the immediate future, they will soon begin taking on much larger roles for businesses and some individual consumers, from delivering groceries to revolutionizing private security, to...
Can the technological standards of IoT be defined? Cisco, IBM, AT&T, Intel and GE are trying to do it, and the Industrial Internet Consortium has been established
The Internet of Things (IoT), or the Internet of Everything, or the Industrial...
Apple's App Store is dominated by free and cheap apps.
But, there are more expensive options in the store, too.
And some are way more expensive.
Some of them show that the App Store can be a really big software market for...
Twitter and a nonprofit group called Compass Family Services are going to partner up to build a learning center where some of the city's poorest residents will learn valuable tech skills.
"It really feels like we're turning a corner —...
Google is testing new features in Gmail that would radically redesign your inbox, according to leaked screenshots obtained by Geek.com.
It's worth noting that Google is always testing new stuff for its products, and just because screenshots like these leak out,...
In honor of @coldplay’s new album “Ghost Stories” out on May 19, the band used Twitter to create excitement, build engagement and give fans a unique chance to own some exclusive memorabilia by taking part in #lyricshunt.
This campaign was a clever...
3-D printers have come a long way since the technology initially debuted in the early 1980s.
Like most technologies, today's 3-D printers have become smaller, cheaper, and more advanced over the past couple of decades.
As 3-D printers have evolved, so...
Ten thousand London taxi drivers are planning a strike next month to protest the rise of Uber, the app that lets private drivers charge for rides, reports Bloomberg.
Protests and controversies are nothing new to Uber cofounder and CEO Travis Kalanick....
