January 29, 2019 Facebook has been paying teens $20 a month for total access to their phone activity Facebook has run a program to collect intimate user data from paid volunteers for the past three years, according to a new report. TechCrunch…
January 29, 2019 EA stops selling ‘FIFA’ currency in Belgium due to loot box law When Belgium declared that loot boxes were illegal and amounted to gambling, EA didn't react well — it not only defended the practice, it…
January 29, 2019 Chinese censorship hurt Apple’s bottom line Apple says it lost revenue due to China’s temporary ban on approving new video games last year. The financial hurt from the censorship of…
January 29, 2019 Apple sales fell billions in China, even as it grew in the US Apple pinned the blame for its falling sales revenue primarily on issues in China, and now its quarterly earnings release shows just how much…
January 29, 2019 Apple’s iPhone installed base hits 900 million Apple has been happy to tell you how many iOS devices it has shipped, but how many iPhones are there in the wild, really?…
January 29, 2019 Apple says there are 1.4 billion active Apple devices Apple announced its first-quarter earnings results today, and though the company reported that iPhone sales revenue fell 15 percent during the holiday quarter, it…
January 29, 2019 Senators have questions for Facebook over in-game payment policies Recently unsealed court documents revealed that Facebook employees were aware children were running up massive tabs spending money on games. Now lawmakers have some…
January 29, 2019 Apple says it’ll lower iPhone prices in certain countries Apple’s iPhone revenue dropped 15 percent this past year over the year prior, and now CEO Tim Cook is saying the company is reconsidering…
January 29, 2019 San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recognition use in the city A San Francisco lawmaker is introducing legislation that would make the city the first in the nation to ban the government use of facial…
January 29, 2019 Some Nest services were down all afternoon Many Nest users had problems connecting to their alarms, cameras, thermostats and doorbells on Tuesday afternoon, though it seems the problem has cleared up….