Spotify is reinventing the way music is sold and could gain upwards of 20 percent, analysts with Barclays said Tuesday. “Our optimism around SPOT stems from the company’s history of creating best-in-class products and user experience and innovating ahead of peers,” Barclays analysts said in a note. The firm issued an overweight rating on the […]

Google sister company Calico and drug giant AbbVie are chipping in another $1 billion to cure aging, the companies said Tuesday. Alphabet’s Calico and AbbVie first partnered in 2014 to combat age-related diseases, including cancers and neurodegenerative diseases. The additional contributions bring Calico’s total funding to $2.5 billion. Aging is an attractive area in the […]

Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an Apple special event at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts on September 9, 2014 in Cupertino, California. Apple released the public preview of iOS 12 on Monday evening, which means you can already try some of the new features that will hit iPhones and iPads […]

Eight of the tech industry’s most influential companies, in anticipation of a repeat of the Russian meddling that occurred during the 2016 presidential campaign, met with United States intelligence officials last month to discuss preparations for this year’s midterm elections. The meeting, which took place May 23 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., was […]

As news of a possible restriction on Chinese investment in U.S. technology companies surfaced amid the ongoing trade spat between the world’s two largest economies, Alibaba-affiliated financial technology firm Ant Financial struck a calm note. “We operate in many different countries and there are different political developments and regulatory developments in the different countries all […]

Ayrial Miller is clearly annoyed. Her mother is sitting with her on the couch in their Chicago apartment, scrolling through the teen’s contacts on social media. “Who’s this?” asks Jennea Bivens, aka Mom. It’s a friend of a friend, Ayrial says, and they haven’t talked in a while. “Delete it,” her mom says. The 13-year-old’s […]

As the CEO of one of the world’s most valuable companies, Tim Cook has a pretty decent platform for sharing leadership advice. And he frequently does. The Apple chief is a prominent spokesperson for diversity and inclusion issues and has made headlines for speaking out on some of America’s most controversial political policies. But that […]

Elon Musk has been running a secretive, highly selective private school out of SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, Ars Technica reported. The experimental non-profit school, Ad Astra, has been educating Musk’s sons along with children of SpaceX employees and a few others in the area since about 2014. Musk originally founded Ad Astra to provide […]

The Supreme Court last week ruled that pulling cellular site records from a wireless carrier requires law enforcement to obtain a warrant, a potentially far-reaching decision for the telecom industry, In ruling 5-4 on the side of Timothy Carpenter, who was convicted in 2013 of robbing Radio Shack and T-Mobile stores, the court determined that […]

Apple just launched the public preview of iOS 12. That means you can now try the new software features that are coming to iPhones and iPads this fall. The public preview is a way for Apple customers to try new software that’s relatively stable but which might still have bugs and other issues. That means […]