Apple on Monday updated the software for its Apple Watch, adding more features to the wearable that now leads the market. The new system is called watchOS 5, Apple said at its annual conference in San Jose, California on Monday. The device grew 60 percent in popularity last year, CEO Tim Cook said, emphasizing the […]
Read moreApple said on Monday it would expand its standard Stocks app to include business news and other business metrics, like extended trading. Top stories shown in the Stocks app will feature business news, separately from Apple’s News app. Full articles will be visible without leaving the Stocks app. The Stocks app will also be available […]
Read moreTwo months after Satya Nadella took over Microsoft in 2014, the company closed its almost $8 billion purchase of Nokia. It was a catastrophic deal and represented the last vestiges of the Steve Ballmer era. While Nadella inherited Nokia, an acquisition that was struck the prior year, he’s taken a very different approach to dealmaking […]
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When it comes to proving the tangible benefits of the blockchain technology that many expect to change the world, it is still very early days and the earliest viable applications will likely be in supply chain management, rather than financial services, executives say. In fact, Cisco stopped researching blockchain applications in financial services after 18 […]
Read moreApple chief executive Tim Cook had a strong message on Monday when he addressed the company’s global gathering of coders and computer scientists: Apple is the best place to earn money from making apps. Cook announced that developers have earned $100 billion through the App Store as of this week. Apple has had to manage […]
Read moreApple showcased its latest software for the iPhone and iPad, iOS 12, Monday at its Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, Calif. Top software executive Craig Federighi said Apple is “doubling down on performance” in the latest update to make devices faster and more responsive. The software update also comes with some serious photo updates. […]
Read moreAn official who could have a big say in whether Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc. can merge is keeping an open mind. Makan Delrahim, who heads antitrust efforts for the U.S. Department of Justice, said he doesn’t see reducing the number of major wireless carriers from four to three as inherently bad for the […]
Read moreApple is holding its big annual developer conference, WWDC, on Monday, starting at 10AM PST. The keynote will be live-streamed through Apple’s website here. For the first time in recent memory, the live stream works on Google’s Chrome browser, as long as you have support for the right underlying technologies (MSE, H.264, and AAC, according […]
Read moreBitcoin prices have struggled this year, along with the cryptocurrency’s ability to capture interest on the internet. Searches for the term “bitcoin” have dropped more than 75 percent since the beginning of this year and roughly halved over three months, according to research from Google Trends. Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, pegged waning searches […]
Read moreSilicon Valley is scrambling for talent, and now Microsoft owns two of the top professional networks
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on Monday that software developers will increasingly have jobs at more and more firms. That could be quite a windfall for Microsoft, which now owns top sites for job searching and developer collaboration. With the combination of recent acquisitions LinkedIn and now GitHub, Microsoft owns two of the most influential […]
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