Today: October 18, 2024
Today: October 18, 2024

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Netflix's subscriber growth is slowing, but its profit and stock price are still surging

Netflix says its subscriber growth slowed dramatically during the summer, a sign that the huge gains from the video-streaming service’s crackdown on freeloading viewers is tapering off

Netflix's subscriber growth is slowing, but its profit and stock price are still surging
Business|US

Top Apple exec acknowledges shortcomings in effort to bring competition in iPhone app payments

Longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller has acknowledged a court-ordered makeover of the U.S. payment system in its iPhone app store hasn’t done much to increase competition — a shortcoming that could result in a federal judge demanding more changes

Top Apple exec acknowledges shortcomings in effort to bring competition in iPhone app payments
Business

Epic Games wins antitrust lawsuit against Google over barriers to its Android app store

A federal court jury has decided that Google’s Android app store has been protected by anticompetitive barriers that have damaged smartphone consumers and software developers, dealing a blow to a major pillar of a technology empire

Epic Games wins antitrust lawsuit against Google over barriers to its Android app store
Business|Entertainment

Netflix's recipe for success includes 'secret sauce' spiced with Silicon Valley savvy

Although its video streaming service sparkles with a Hollywood sheen, Netflix still taps its roots in Silicon Valley to stay a step ahead of traditional TV and movie studios

Netflix's recipe for success includes 'secret sauce' spiced with Silicon Valley savvy
Entertainment|Lifestyle

Peace, music and memories: As the 1960s fade, historians scramble to capture Woodstock's voices

An estimated 450,000 people attended the Woodstock festival in August 1969

Peace, music and memories: As the 1960s fade, historians scramble to capture Woodstock's voices
Sports|US

As an era ends, the city that was home to the Oakland A's comes to grips with their departure

The Athletics already have carved out Jekyll-and-Hyde legacy as one of Major League Baseball’s most successful and sad-sack franchises with nine World Series titles and 19 seasons of futility punctuated by 100 or more losses

As an era ends, the city that was home to the Oakland A's comes to grips with their departure
Business|Entertainment|Sports|US

ESPN and other channels return to DirecTV with a new Disney deal after a nearly 2-week blackout

DirecTV on Saturday announced it had reached a deal with Walt Disney Co. that will restore ESPN and ABC-owned stations to its service after a nearly 2-week dispute that blacked out those networks for millions of viewers across the U.S. The end of the impasse came in time for sports fans to watch ESPN’s slate of college football games on DirecTV

ESPN and other channels return to DirecTV with a new Disney deal after a nearly 2-week blackout
Business|Technology

Google's search engine's latest AI injection will answer voiced questions about video and photos

Google is pumping more artificial intelligence into its search engine

Google's search engine's latest AI injection will answer voiced questions about video and photos
Business|Technology

Apple begins testing AI software designed to bring a smarter Siri to the iPhone 16

Apple is giving more people the chance to test a software update that will implant artificial intelligence into its virtual assistant Siri and automate a variety of tedious tasks on the latest iPhone coming out Friday

Apple begins testing AI software designed to bring a smarter Siri to the iPhone 16
Business|Technology

Uber to dispatch Waymo's robotaxis in Austin and Atlanta next year

Ride-hailing leader Uber on Friday announced it will dispatch robotaxis built by driverless technology pioneer Waymo beginning next year in Austin, Texas, and Atlanta in a deal that deepens the bond between once-bitter rivals

Uber to dispatch Waymo's robotaxis in Austin and Atlanta next year
Business|Technology

Apple embraces the AI craze with its newly unleashed iPhone 16 lineup

Apple has charged into the artificial intelligence craze with a new iPhone lineup that marks the company’s latest attempt to latch on a technology trend and transform it into a cultural phenomenon

Apple embraces the AI craze with its newly unleashed iPhone 16 lineup
Environment|Technology

Sports boats set out on a voyage to electrify the waters in the same way Tesla electrified the roads

A 23-foot (7-meter) boat hurtling along a Northern California river at speeds of up to 40 miles per hour looked like other vessels but didn't have the familiar roar

Sports boats set out on a voyage to electrify the waters in the same way Tesla electrified the roads
Business|Finance|Technology

CrowdStrike estimates the tech meltdown caused by its bungling left a $60 million dent in its sales

Cybersecurity specialist CrowdStrike Holdings on Wednesday estimated it absorbed a roughly $60 million blow to its sales pipeline last month after its botched handling of a software update triggered a technology meltdown that stranded thousands of people in airports in addition to other exasperating disruptions

CrowdStrike estimates the tech meltdown caused by its bungling left a $60 million dent in its sales
Business|Finance|Technology

Cruise will dispatch some of its trouble-ridden robotaxis to join Uber's ride-hailing service

Cruise’s trouble-ridden robotaxis are on the road to joining Uber’s ride-hailing service next year as part of a multiyear partnership bringing together two companies that once appeared poised to compete for passengers

Cruise will dispatch some of its trouble-ridden robotaxis to join Uber's ride-hailing service
Business|Technology

Judge tells Google to brace for shakeup of Android app store as punishment for running a monopoly

A federal judge has indicated he will order major changes in Google’s Android app store

Judge tells Google to brace for shakeup of Android app store as punishment for running a monopoly
Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Apple breaks out of recent sales slump as it gears up to make its leap into the AI craze

Apple snapped out of a prolonged sales slump during its most-recent quarter

Apple breaks out of recent sales slump as it gears up to make its leap into the AI craze
Technology

Technology's grip on modern life is pushing us down a dimly lit path of digital land mines

“Move fast and break things,” a high-tech mantra popularized 20 years ago by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was supposed to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation

Technology's grip on modern life is pushing us down a dimly lit path of digital land mines
Business|Finance|Technology

Google's corporate parent still prospering amid shift injecting more AI technology in search

Google’s corporate parent Alphabet Inc. delivered another quarter of steady growth amid an AI-driven shift in the ubiquitous search engine that is the foundation of its internet empire

Google's corporate parent still prospering amid shift injecting more AI technology in search
Business|Entertainment|Technology|Videos

Netflix's subscriber and earnings growth gather more momentum as password-sharing crackdown pays off

Netflix’s subscriber and earnings growth accelerated in its latest quarter as the video streaming service benefits from a crackdown on freeloading viewers, an expansion into advertising and an acclaimed programming lineup

Netflix's subscriber and earnings growth gather more momentum as password-sharing crackdown pays off
Business|Lifestyle|Technology|US

GM brings in new CEO to steer troubled Cruise robotaxi service while Waymo ramps up in San Francisco

General Motors has named a veteran technology executive with roots in the video game industry to steer its troubled robotaxi service Cruise

GM brings in new CEO to steer troubled Cruise robotaxi service while Waymo ramps up in San Francisco
Business|Economy|Finance|Stock Markets|Technology

Robinhood CEO discusses the brokerage's evolution leading up to another ride on the meme stock wave

Meme stocks like GameStop are hot again, reviving memories of early 2021 when they turned into a craze that ended up burning many investors along with Robinhood Markets

Robinhood CEO discusses the brokerage's evolution leading up to another ride on the meme stock wave
Business|Crime|Technology|US

Judges hear Elizabeth Holmes' appeal of fraud conviction while she remains in Texas prison

A panel of federal judges have spent two hours wrestling with a series of legal issues raised in an attempt to overturn a fraud conviction that sent Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to prison after a meteoric rise to Silicon Valley stardom

Judges hear Elizabeth Holmes' appeal of fraud conviction while she remains in Texas prison
Business|Technology

Apple leaps into AI with an array of upcoming iPhone features and a ChatGPT deal to smarten up

Apple has jumped into the race to bring generative artificial intelligence to the masses

Apple leaps into AI with an array of upcoming iPhone features and a ChatGPT deal to smarten up
Business|Finance|Technology

British tech magnate Mike Lynch acquitted of fraud charges in $11 billion deal with Hewlett Packard

British tech magnate Mike Lynch has been cleared of charges alleging he orchestrated a fraud and conspiracy leading up to an $11 billion deal that turned into a costly albatross for Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard

British tech magnate Mike Lynch acquitted of fraud charges in $11 billion deal with Hewlett Packard
Business|Technology

Judge grills Apple exec about whether company is defying order to enable more iPhone payment options

A federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether Apple has set up a gauntlet of exasperating hurdles to discourage the use of alternative payment options in iPhone apps, despite a court order seeking to create more ways for consumers to pay for digital services

Judge grills Apple exec about whether company is defying order to enable more iPhone payment options

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