June 17, 2014 Daily Report: Amazon Seeks Tighter Hold on Shoppers Through a Phone by THE NEW YORK TIMES By THE NEW YORK TIMES Amazon is set to give the brutal phone business a shot. On the one hand, analysts say, it has…
June 17, 2014 London Welcomes the Tech Set and Its Money by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT The city is hosting a number of events this week as continues efforts to diversify the local economy and embrace the…
June 17, 2014 As Publishers Fight Amazon, Books Vanish by DAVID STREITFELD and MELISSA EDDY By DAVID STREITFELD and MELISSA EDDY Seeking ever-higher payments from publishers to bolster its anemic bottom line, Amazon is holding books and authors hostage…
June 17, 2014 Nest’s Smoke Alarm Returns, With Price Cut by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Nest’s smart smoke and carbon monoxide alarm is coming back to store shelves two months after safety concerns prompted a recall…
June 17, 2014 Microsoft Unveils Machine Learning for the Masses by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY Microsoft plans to make predictive data analysis, now an arcane field, a standard part of business. The company says that a…
June 16, 2014 Jonathan Ive on Apple’s Design Process and Product Philosophy by BRIAN X. CHEN and MATT RICHTEL By BRIAN X. CHEN and MATT RICHTEL Apple’s design chief, who rarely speaks publicly, said in a recent interview that the company’s design processes…
June 16, 2014 A Smartphone Keyboard App That Anticipates What You Want to Type by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT SwiftKey’s app for Android, which the London start-up made available free last week, is used on almost 250 million handsets. Now…
June 16, 2014 Looking at Link Between Violent Video Games and Lack of Empathy by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON As video games become more realistic, new studies have found a connection between extensive exposure and muted responses to actual suffering….
June 15, 2014 The Future of E3 as Video Games Go Digital by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD It’s unclear what the role of events like E3 will be as more and more of the games business shifts to…
June 15, 2014 Tim Cook, Making Apple His Own by MATT RICHTEL and BRIAN X. CHEN By MATT RICHTEL and BRIAN X. CHEN While the company’s enthusiasts impatiently await new wizardry, the new chief executive is trying to make the…