Facebook has a cash cow. It’s called News Feed, and for the past five years, it has been the company’s core money maker and source of revenue growth. But there is a problem looming: Facebook has been saying for the past year that it is running out of places to put ads in News Feed. […]

Until this past week, I wasn’t able to get a steady Wi-Fi connection in most rooms of my house. Then I tried a new solution called “mesh networking” and fixed everything in minutes. Here’s some background: If I sat downstairs in my 1920s colonial, I might be lucky enough to get a fast enough connection […]

You walk into your kitchen and say, “Alexa, what’s going on today?” The cylindrical Amazon Echo Dot on your counter plays a soundbite from the president’s latest news conference followed by a voice memo from your mom. What was once a voice-controlled personal assistant is becoming a way for family members and friends to stay […]

The city of Tracy, California, is flanked by clusters of warehouses on its east and west sides. The names on the buildings are familiar: Amazon, Costco, FedEx, Safeway, Crate and Barrel and others. Located in California’s Central Valley, Tracy’s proximity to the San Francisco Bay Area has turned it into a prime spot for distribution […]

I have driven at least 50 cars in my life and so far this is the best one I’ve ever had. Period. Let’s chat about why. Modern cars are profoundly annoying. Sure, they’re as safe as a fallout shelters, accelerate like dropped pianos and have enough tech to embarrass the Starship Enterprise. But between the […]

India’s multibillion-dollar entertainment industry is quickly gaining a global audience, and it’s not just because of the song and dance. In hopes of expanding more in the West, for the first time ever, the IIFA awards show, dubbed the Indian Oscars, is being hosted in New York City this weekend. But U.S. producers have already […]

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom had a key role to fill in early 2016. He was seeking to revamp the photo-sharing service he’d co-founded with Mike Krieger six years earlier, and which Facebook had bought in 2012. After keeping Instagram’s executive ranks intentionally small, Systrom was putting together a team to help him overhaul the site. […]

Fears of a new dotcom bubble are beginning to rise, as investors question whether this year’s technology run – the S&P Information Technology Index is up more than 20 percent year-to-date – is building toward the same over-saturated scenario as nearly two decades ago. Yet Invesco’s John Frank believes the current tech run-up is not […]

Combatant Gentlemen, a technology-focused menswear start-up that developed a wide following for catering to “ballers on a budget,” has apologized for a litany of customer service problems that prompted angry clients to publicly shame the company. For at least several months, the start-up — which launched in 2012 to sell men’s clothing for bargain prices […]

Ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft have been so disruptive to New York City’s taxi industry, they are causing lenders to fail. Three New York-based credit unions that specialized in loaning money against taxi cab medallions, the hard-to-get licenses that allow the city’s traditional cab fleet to operate, have been placed into conservatorship as […]