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LG confirmed that it's releasing two flagships this year

Despite increased competition from the likes of Apple and Samsung, not to mention the lukewarm response to the LG G4, LG still managed to ship close to 60 million smartphones...

Tim Cook hinted that Apple may be interested in virtual reality

Considering how the iPhone is losing some major steam, Apple is going to need to find some more sources of revenue if it wants to continue to be as ridiculously...

There are now more than a billion active Apple devices in the world

Tuesday's quarterly earnings report was fraught with indications that Apple is losing its steam, and that 2016 will be the roughest year the company has faced in recent memory. In...

iPhone sales are expected to shrink for the first time this year

For the past couple of months, we've been hearing rumors and speculation about how iPhone sales have started to slow down, and how sales might actually shrink this year. These rumors...

Google wants to help voters fact check presidential candidates

Regardless of the political party they belong to, presidential candidates will say just about anything to get themselves elected, and it can be difficult for voters to sift through all the...

Lyft's partnership with Waze could give it an edge over Uber

Google hasn't done much with Waze since it acquired the crowd-sourced navigation app back in 2013, but it looks like that's about to change. On Tuesday, Waze announced on its official...

Spotify is now a video-streaming service as well

Just as the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, Spotify has added a video-streaming feature to its Android app, with the iOS app expected to receive the same feature in...

Tesla wants to find a Chinese manufacturing site by mid-2016

As with most Western companies, Tesla hasn't been able to find much success in China, but that's not a market that Tesla can afford to miss out on. Elon Musk...

A new company is now in-charge of Sony's PlayStation business

Sony is a consumer electronics behemoth that sells everything from camera sensors to televisions, but the company has been losing ground to its Chinese and South Korean competitors in recent years,...

One in six Americans now subscribe to Amazon Prime

Whenever someone suggests that Jeff Bezos might not be the right person to lead Amazon, just remember that Amazon Prime was his idea, and it may be one of the...

Original content is coming to YouTube Red in the near future

YouTube needs to do more than just remove advertisements and support offline playback if its wants people to start paying for its new subscription service, which is why the company...

Amazon's smartphone ambitions didn't die with the Fire Phone

When the Kindle Fire became a surprising success, and ended up spawning a line of solid tablets, Amazon was confident enough in its ability to create successful hardware that it...

Apple's electric vehicle project has run into some problems

Hot on the heels of the report that Steve Zadesky, the head of Apple's electric vehicle project, will be leaving the company in the near future, a new report is claiming...

Study shows that most of your Facebook friends aren't actual friends

How many of your Facebook friends are actually friends, and how many are just acquaintances? According to a study that was published in the Royal Society Open Science journal last Wednesday, only one...

Snapchat may support audio and video calling in the future

Snapchat may be popular, but the company is struggling to make money through advertisements. It's been searching for a new source of revenue for months, including additional photo lenses and sponsored photo...

The former head of Vine is joining Google's virtual reality team

Google Cardboard was a great way to give us all a taste of virtual reality, but the real virtual reality experience will come this year with the arrival of high-end...

Spotify will start offering video content for the first time this week

Music-streaming may be popular, but it's not exactly lucrative, which is why Spotify still operates on a loss even though it's one of the most-popular music-streaming services in the world. Obviously,...

Twitter just lost four of its top executives

We won't know until later today what exactly happened at Twitter on Sunday, but we do know that whatever it was, it resulted in the departure of four of the...

Netflix's international expansion is facing a gargantuan obstacle

Now that Netflix is available in almost every country on the planet, except for China, you'd think that the company's quest for world domination would simply be a matter of...

Alphabet may overtake Apple as the world's most-valuable company

Last year, Google decided to split itself into numerous smaller businesses, and then consolidate all of those businesses under a newly-formed conglomerate by the name of Alphabet, which was valued at more...