Over the past few years, tech giants Apple and Google have emerged as dominant forces in the mobile-technology market. Although they’ve pursued radically different strategies, each company has been wildly successful: Apple …
A well-known editor at news giant Reuters has been indicted by a federal grand jury on felony charges of conspiring with a notorious hacker group to deface the website of The Los Angeles Times in 2010 after he had been …
Several prominent lawmakers from both political parties have thrown their support behind legislation to allow consumers to “unlock” their mobile phones, after the White House formally objected to a recent ban on the practice. The …
Media and entertainment giant Time Warner will spin off Time Inc., parent company of TIME, into a separate, publicly traded company, Time Warner said in a statement Wednesday. The decision to separate Time Inc. from Time Warner …
In a word: money.
For months, News Corp., the media giant conglomerate run by billionaire mogul Rupert Murdoch, has been preparing to launch a new national Fox sports network. On Tuesday, Murdoch finally stepped into the …
The Obama administration will push to reverse a new prohibition on mobile phone unlocking, after an online White House petition protesting the ban drew more than 100,000 signatures. The ban makes it a federal crime for consumers …
Warren Buffett, America’s most famous investor, holds himself to a high standard. That’s why he described 2012, a year in which his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway achieved a total gain for its shareholders of $24.1 billion, as …
It was only a matter of time.
Groupon fired its charismatic CEO Andrew Mason on Thursday after a tumultuous tenure pockmarked by accounting gaffes, sophomoric stunts and a whopping 77% decline in the company’s share price. …
The U.S. technology industry is one of the most dynamic in the world, particularly with respect to mobile and Internet-based computing, two areas that are evolving at breakneck speed. Things can happen very quickly in the tech …
The Times they are a-changin’ — again. The New York Times Co., parent company of the Gray Lady, plans to sell The Boston Globe.
