February 24, 2014 Samsung Takes a More Focused Approach With New Smartphone and Smart Watch by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN Samsung’s new flagship smartphone and new smart watch, both announced Monday at a relatively low-key media event in Barcelona, Spain,…
February 24, 2014 WhatsApp to Start Offering Internet Phone Calls by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT On the heels of its $16 billion deal to be bought by Facebook, WhatsApp said Monday that it would start offering…
February 24, 2014 Daily Report: Apple’s Unsplashy Acquisitions Point to Future Plans by THE NEW YORK TIMES By THE NEW YORK TIMES The companies acquired by Apple in a 15-month period were small and apparently carefully targeted to existing projects, in…
February 24, 2014 Q.&A. With Joe Belfiore on the Future of Windows Phone by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT Joe Belfiore, the corporate vice president of Microsoft Windows Phone, discusses goals for 2014 and the potential upside of the company’s…
February 24, 2014 Opening the Corporation by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY The way people handle open source projects, by sharing a maximum amount of information, may become a standard for all kinds…
February 24, 2014 At Mobile World Congress, a Sign of Tech Industry’s Shifting Focus by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN In a sign that the tech industry has moved past computers, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, will be…
February 24, 2014 For Hints at Apple’s Plans, Read Its Shopping List by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN Apple has avoided jaw-dropping takeovers in favor of a series of smaller deals, using the companies to buttress or fill…
February 24, 2014 Yahoo Aims to More Deftly Blend Ads With Content by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL Yahoo is starting to push into two of the hottest areas of Internet advertising: stream ads and so-called native ads. Published:…
February 24, 2014 IBM: More Cloud, Less People by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY Big Blue is moving large amounts of its software into the cloud, and launching a program to draw more outside software…
February 23, 2014 Disruptions: After WhatsApp Deal, Visions of Magic Numbers by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON How much money would it take for you to sell your start-up, quit your job or close your venture capital fund…