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Reading Time: 9 minutesApple CEO Tim Cook (R) views the MacBook Pro in the demo room after an Apple media event in Cupertino, California, U.S. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach More It’s no shock that Apple puts most of its effort into improving the iPhone. The iPhone is a cash cow big enough to be heard from the…

Reading Time: 3 minutesMark Zuckerberg China More Facebook has a „realistic opportunity“ to enter China in 2018, Mizuho analyst James Lee wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday. Lee came to the conclusion after meeting „various industry contacts“ in China during a recent trip. He outlined a few factors that he believes increase the…

Reading Time: 2 minutessamsung wireless charging pad More Apple is expected to include wireless charging as a core feature in the iPhones it launches on Tuesday, but Apple’s own wireless charger may not ship along the new iPhones.  A new report from Apple’s Asian supply chain indicates that Apple still needs „technological breakthroughs“ before it…

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis Tuesday, Sept. 12 (AAPL) Apple will unveil its highly anticipated 10th anniversary iPhone. And while the notoriously secretive company isn’t giving us any information about the handset — we’re not even sure if it’s going to be the iPhone X or iPhone 8 or if we’ll see both — that hasn’t stopped…

Reading Time: 3 minutesApple’s (AAPL) App Store doesn’t just boost the iPhone and iPad — it’s a boon for an entire subsection of the economy. Without the App Store, we likely wouldn’t have things like Uber, Seamless, Lyft, Snapchat (SNAP) or Tinder. Heck, even companies like Spotify, Facebook (FB) Messenger and Yelp (YELP) wouldn’t be…

Reading Time: 4 minutesSince news broke on Thursday that Equifax (EFX) had the personal data of some 143 million Americans — including names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver’s license numbers — stolen, things have stuck to the script with depressing predictability. Equifax’s blows a larger hole in our collective…

Reading Time: 4 minutesApple’s (AAPL) much-hyped 10th anniversary iPhone is nearly upon us, and we’re as excited as the next person to see what the Cupertino, California-based company has cooked up this time around. Will the 8 match up with all of the rumors we’ve read over the past few months? Will it be the greatest…

Reading Time: 7 minutesSamsung’s Galaxy Note 8, the follow-up to the Note 7 — or as it’s more commonly called, one of the worst public relations disasters in the history of consumer electronics — is finally here. And it’s quite the encore. Not only has the handset been completely redesigned from the Note 7, but…

Reading Time: 2 minutesImagine this. You’re on Facebook. You find an item you think your mom might like. Or your friend, or your Twitter followers, or anybody else who isn’t on Facebook. Or who is on Facebook, but will never see the post you liked. There’s a sneaky way you can create a universal link…

Reading Time: 5 minutesBERLIN — Living in the United States and seeing every other electronics-producing country try to sell its gadgets to us, it can be easy to think that the digital universe revolves around us. And most of the time that’s true. But spending days touring dozens of halls of tech exhibits here at…

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Acer Swift 5 is just 2.5 pounds and rocks a boatload of connectivity options. More BERLIN—The slew of new laptops shown off at the IFA trade show here are headed in the right direction—with one exception. Windows laptops, whether conventional screen-and-keyboard models or hybrid designs that can be folded up to…

Reading Time: 7 minutesWhile it may be difficult for Google’s (GOOG, GOOGL) Android fans to admit, Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone has become one of history’s most influential consumer electronics devices. Today’s iPhone 7 and the upcoming iPhone 8 — or iPhone 10, or whatever it’s going to be called — is an amalgamation of the best…

Reading Time: 9 minutesHope you had a nice outdoorsy summer, because for the foreseeable future, you’re going to have a hard time leaving the living room. The fall video game season is just about underway, and the 2017 edition is keeping with tradition by slinging enough massive games your way to tax both your wallet…

Reading Time: 6 minutesWhen Ubisoft announced that it was teaming its bizarre bug-eyed, gap-toothed rabbis characters with Nintendo’s (NTDOY) iconic mascot Mario for a turn-based strategy game, I was less than hopeful. In fact, when the news broke that the companies were working together at E3 2017 and showed a demo of their game, I…

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe PeaceTech Lab’s headquarters. More The plague of “fake news” may be news to Facebook (FB), but it’s a familiar foe to a small non-profit in Washington that’s trying to use mobile apps, big data and social media to promote peace and accountability in places like Iraq, Kenya and Mexico where those…

Reading Time: 5 minutesSamsung’s Gear Sport promises smartwatch and fitness capabilities without having to keep your phone with you all the time. More BERLIN — Samsung today introduced three new fitness-minded wearable gadgets at the IFA trade show here. The company hopes the devices, a watch, a fitness tracker and a pair of earbuds, will get…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is a big week for YouTube (GOOG, GOOGL). It’s getting a new design and new features—all of which have been in the works, carefully and methodically, for a very long time, and all of which, as far as I’m concerned, are welcome! There’s a new logo in town. More   It’s…

Reading Time: 4 minutesMicrosoft (MSFT) has a plan to save VR — low-cost headsets and slick new controllers. It’s a heck of a game plan, and if it works it could put to bed any fears that the seemingly floundering virtual reality craze will fall to the wayside. I got to play with a Windows…

Reading Time: 2 minutesFacebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks on stage during the annual Facebook F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S., April 18, 2017. REUTERS/Stephen Lam More Facebook (FB) on Monday took another step towards curbing the distribution of so-called “fake news.” Effective immediately, the company will stop business pages, which the…

Reading Time: 6 minutesFitbit’s all-new smartwatch is designed to do battle with the Apple Watch.It’s no secret that Fitbit (FIT) has been working on a smartwatch — Co-founder and CEO James Park said as much during the company’s Q2 2017 earnings call earlier this month. And now it’s official. This is the Fitbit Ionic, the company’s…

Reading Time: 3 minutesExpedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is expected to take the role of Uber’s new chief executive. (Courtesy of Expedia, Inc. via AP) More After two months of discussions, Uber has finally found its next chief executive in current Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, a source told Yahoo Finance. The 48-year-old Iranian businessman was the…