April 29, 2015 Gambling Comes to E-Sports With Unikrn by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Competitive videogame playing, known as e-sports, has passed many milestones to mainstream acceptance. The latest comes through Unikrn, a start-up that…
April 29, 2015 Franchising a Student Digital Privacy Law by NATASHA SINGER By NATASHA SINGER The strategy Common Sense Media employed to push a student privacy law in California suggests how the group’s new and more…
April 29, 2015 Less Noise but More Money in Data Science by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR The period of inflated expectations for big data is giving way to steady investment in technology and people, whose pay is…
April 28, 2015 Twitter Earnings, Released Early, Disappoint Investors; Shares Plunge by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL Investors have been eager to see results from recent changes Twitter has made to help newcomers better understand how to use…
April 28, 2015 Repurposing an Old iPhone by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER How to give an old iPhone to a friend for use with Wi-Fi, to surf and use apps. Published: April…
April 28, 2015 Facebook Adds Free Video Calls to Messenger App by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL The social networking company has allowed free voice calls on its Messenger app for about two years, but now it is…
April 28, 2015 Apple Pay Will Hit Best Buy Stores in 2015 by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC Best Buy announced on Monday that it now accepts Apple Pay payments for purchases made inside its smartphone app, and by…
April 27, 2015 Apple’s Profit and Revenue Surge, as iPhone Sales Jump and China Business Rises by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN More than one-quarter of the company’s revenue last quarter came from China, which is becoming an increasingly vital part of…
April 27, 2015 Packed Field Stokes Competition for Digital Ad Dollars by SYDNEY EMBER By SYDNEY EMBER Heavyweights like AOL, Google and Yahoo will vie with upstarts like Refinery29 and Vice in an increasingly crowded two-week frenzy to…
April 27, 2015 Turning a Children’s Rating System Into an Advocacy Army by NATASHA SINGER By NATASHA SINGER James Steyer’s nonprofit organization, Common Sense Media, is known for offering parents guidance on games and videos, but he has a…