June 3, 2015 Speeding Up Hardware Through an Accelerator and Marketplace by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY The manufacturer that bought the once-hot ecommerce website Fab has an innovative way of developing new hardware companies. Some of the…
June 3, 2015 Pinterest Brings E-Commerce to Social Scrapbooking With ‘Buy It’ Button by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC Pinterest, the online scrapbooking site, enters the ecommerce realm with a “Buyable Pins” button that enables people to purchase items through…
June 2, 2015 Instagram Announces Plans to Expand Advertising by VINDU GOEL and SYDNEY EMBER By VINDU GOEL and SYDNEY EMBER The mobile photo sharing service, which has been mostly ad-free, is opening its feed to all advertisers and…
June 2, 2015 Customer Satisfaction With TV, Internet and Phone Service at 7-Year Low, Study Finds by REBECCA R. RUIZ By REBECCA R. RUIZ Americans have long expressed dissatisfaction with their cable and Internet service. This year, they seem to have grown even more…
June 2, 2015 Microsoft Sets Date for Windows 10 by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Microsoft has finally said when Windows 10, one of its biggest products in years, will be available: July 29. Published: May…
June 1, 2015 Motorola’s Antitrust Lawsuit May Head to Top Court by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR Years after the mobile device company was a corporate victim of a price-fixing scheme, the Supreme Court might take up the…
May 31, 2015 The World’s Coming Broadband Divide by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY Ultrafast Internet access is spreading unevenly throughout the world. And not getting that kind of broadband access could mean some communities…
May 30, 2015 Downloading Mac App Updated Automatically by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER The Mac can install any updates it finds when it checks in daily with Apple’s servers. Published: May 29, 2015…
May 30, 2015 Creator of Silk Road Website Faces Sentencing for Drug Scheme by REUTERS By REUTERS The accused mastermind behind the Silk Road underground website was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for orchestrating a scheme that…
May 30, 2015 Google Wants to Turn Your Clothes Into a Computer by CONOR DOUGHERTY By CONOR DOUGHERTY A little-known research group inside the search giant is working on ways to allow textiles to respond to touch and send…