Month: January 2019

The telecom giant is attempting to expand its footprint in a media industry currently in a state of flux. But since acquiring DirecTV in 2015, the satellite pay-TV service has become a drag on AT&T’s business and public image.

China’s Huawei, charged in two indictments Monday, might lose access to American-made components, a move that nearly put rival ZTE out of business.

Twitter’s preparations for Super Bowl LIII kicked into high gear as kickoff for the Big Game drew closer. The social network and the National Football League teamed up on special hashtag-triggered emojis that can be accessed by including #SuperBowl, #SBLIII, #GoPats, #EverythingWeGot, #LARams or #RamsHouse in tweets. It’s @SuperBowl Week! #SBLIII#EverythingWeGot #LARams pic.twitter.com/BQXE5KukMp — NFL…

Apple actually mentioned the word “advertising” on its earnings call. Although hardware isn’t going anywhere, Apple’s services business, which includes search ads in the App Store, is becoming increasingly meaningful to the company’s bottom line. “Services are scaling quickly,” Apple CFO Luca Maestri told investors on Tuesday. Although iPhone sales were weak during the holiday… Continue reading »

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Closing arguments are taking place in the government’s suit against Qualcomm over patent licensing, the final stage in a trial that could upend a business model vital to the chip maker in the smartphone era.

Fresh from disrupting the taxi industry and leaping into food delivery, Uber is devising a new business strategy ahead of its anticipated public offering: ferrying passengers to and from mass-transit systems.

Last December, six strangers were invited by Ancestry to a small tour in Brooklyn, where they assumed they would uncover some fascinating aspects of their family histories. What they didn’t know was just how connected they are to each other, bound together by the deeply webbed histories of their ancestors. Railroad Ties documents the highly…

A 14-year-old and his mother tried to alert Apple that they could listen in on the devices of others using FaceTime’s group-chat function—but Apple didn’t disable the software feature until word of the glitch spread on social media.

Unilever is working on building a cross-media measurement model for measuring the impact of marketing campaigns across the advertising ecosystem, an ambitious project that will be the first measuring system of its kind. The plan, which is aimed at better measuring who sees digital campaigns, the reaction to those campaigns and the impact of the…

Two separate U.S. indictments form the basis of 23 criminal charges alleging Huawei violated sanctions and stole intellectual property. Huawei denied them all.