January 12, 2016 Peach App for the iPhone Stakes a Social Media Claim by PATRICK LAFORGE By PATRICK LAFORGE The app has quickly become an object of fascination, as people share animated GIFs, line drawings, songs and cake. Yes, cake….
January 11, 2016 Yahoo’s Brain Drain Shows a Loss of Faith Inside the Company by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL Faced with the failure of her efforts to reignite growth at Yahoo, Marissa Mayer is now turning to the opposite strategy:…
January 10, 2016 Farhad and Mike’s Week in Tech: Cars With, and Without, Drivers by MIKE ISAAC and FARHAD MANJOO By MIKE ISAAC and FARHAD MANJOO Auto manufacturers, ride-hailing companies and lawmakers are turning their attention to self-driving cars. Published: January 9, 2016 at…
January 10, 2016 China Setting Up Fund for Its Electronics Industry by PAUL MOZUR By PAUL MOZUR A $30 billion fund underscores China’s ambitions to expand its tech capabilities and signals how those ambitions are being threatened by…
January 10, 2016 A Tour of Animatronic Tails and a Potemkin Village at International CES by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO Las Vegas has a fake Statue of Liberty and a fake Eiffel Tower. So why not add a fake Twitter town…
January 10, 2016 Challenging Uber, Lyft Bets on a Road Wide Enough for Two by DAVID GELLES and MIKE ISAAC By DAVID GELLES and MIKE ISAAC Effective monopolies are the rule in technology companies. But with a recent billion-dollar investment, Lyft may show that…
January 9, 2016 Relocating Old iPhoto Events in Photos for OS X by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER How Mac users can find and organize their digital photos after upgrading to Photos for OS X. Published: January 8,…
January 9, 2016 San Francisco Office Rents Pass Manhattan as Most Expensive in Country by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD A combination of the booming technology sector and tight supply of commercial real estate propelled average office rents in San Francisco….
January 9, 2016 My Virtual Life at Tech’s Big Consumer Electronics Show by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN Repairing robots, driving Rovers across Mars and zapping objects with a laser gun — but doing it all in virtual…
January 9, 2016 Venture Investing Declined Sharply at the End of 2015 by KATIE BENNER By KATIE BENNER Venture capitalists pulled back from start-up investing in the fourth quarter of 2015, in a somber end to the year. Published:…