The list of things you can purchase through Amazon is quickly growing to include just about everything the average person would ever want, and it now includes cable and internet service. Comcast announced on Monday that potential customers can now browse and purchase its various servi
Uber is currently engaged in a war of attrition with China’s largest ride-sharing company, Didi Kuaidi, and it’s costing the company more than $1 billion a year, according to CEO Travis Kalanick. We’ve known that Uber is losing a lot of money in China, but we didn’t
Xiaomi has had a lot to boast about over the last few years, and it’s certainly taken every opportunity it’s had to do just that, but things were a lot different last year. Everything started off normally, with Xiaomi boasting that it had sold more than 61 million smartphones in 2014, an
We’ve been hearing a lot about Yahoo over the past couple of months, and none of what we’ve heard has been good. The latest batch of news about the struggling company suggests that it’s considering laying off at least 10% of its workforce, most of which will come from its “me
Most consumer electronics companies see their revenue spike during the holiday season, but Fitbit sold so many of its fitness trackers this Christmas that the accompanying Fitbit app was the most-popular app on the app store this week. Beating out the likes of Instagram and YouTube, the Fitbit app t
With a higher valuation than all of its competitors combined, Uber is the undisputed leader of the ride-sharing market, which is why so many of its smaller competitors have been joining forces, because there’s no way they can compete with Uber by themselves. That being said, forming partnershi
We’ve been waiting years for Yahoo to turn things around, and many people have given up hope of it ever happening. Not only has CEO Marissa Mayer failed to turn the company around as promised, the board of directors has decided to cancel its plan to spin-off its stake in Alibaba in favor of a
Over the next several months, the United States Postal Service will be expanding its Informed Delivery service, which sends customers an email containing an image of the physical mail that they’re supposed to receive that day. Although it’s free, customers must sign up for
YouTube has been the king of video streaming for years, but it looks like Netflix has stolen the crown, at least in the United States. According to a survey from RBC Capital Markets, more than half of American internet users have watched movies or television shows on Netflix in the past twelve month
Even though it was one of the first music streaming services in the world, and dominated the market for a while, Pandora has been losing a lot of ground to newer services like Spotify, mainly due to the fact that users can’t actually choose which songs they listen to on Pandora. Fortunately, a
I’m sure you remember that big cybersecurity agreement that China and the United States made a few weeks ago, and I’m sure you’ll also remember how virtually nobody actually expected either of the two countries to respect the agreement for very long. That being said, it’s sti
2016 is shaping up to be the Year of Virtual Reality, because pretty much every virtual reality headset worth noting is expected to launch sometime during the year, including the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift. However, whereas those headsets are going to be gaming-centric and really expensive, Samsun