Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Recode by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Recode.For years, Apple’s Macintosh computers, while far from the biggest sellers, have been … | Continue reading
The Cleveland Cavaliers made American sports history in two major ways this month: they were the first team to ever wear sleeves in an NBA Finals, and they brought the first title to Cleveland in over half a century. And both achievements, it turns out, were bolstered by the wise … | Continue reading
Mikko Hyppönen — our Chief Research Officer and probably the most famous code warrior ever to come out of Finland — likes to point out that he was born the same year as the internet. Jani — the ten-year-old from Helsinki who made international news by earning Instagram’s top bug … | Continue reading
It appears that YouTube’s site is down for some users. Ok. It looks like youtube is down for most people. We should all huddle together. Everything will be ok I promise. — Stampy Cat (@stampylongnose) June 22, 2016 It isn’t clear what the reason is, but the site has been unavaila … | Continue reading
Tesla offers to Buy Solar City for 2.7 Billion dollars, Twitter launches to App Twitter engage for Analytics, Instagram hits 500 Million Monthly Users, Twitter video gets an update, Apple kids coding camps coming to stores. All this on Crunch Report. Read More | Continue reading
News of an offer from Tesla to acquire SolarCity came mostly unexpected to traders earlier this afternoon. In a rapid “knee-jerk” reaction, traders bid up SolarCity by 13 percent and sent Tesla tumbling down 12 percent. It is typical for the stock of an acquisition target to spik … | Continue reading
Luke Walton realizes he is reporting to his dream job a little late. | Continue reading
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has been increasingly willing to share moments from his family and work life.But a photo he posted on Tuesday, intended to promote Instagram's user milestone numbers, may have ended up revealing a little more about Zuckerberg than he intended: … | Continue reading
Withings co-founder Cédric Hutchings wants to be clear that the sale of his company to Nokia is not the end of the road, but a new beginning. The $192 million deal for Paris-based Withings, a leading connected health device company, to Finland’s Nokia was a bit of a shocker when … | Continue reading
A new report claims that Apple will take the unusual step later this year of introducing a ninth-generation iPhone family that is largely unchanged, appearance-wise, from not just the prior year, but the one before that as well. The report comes from the Wall Street Journal, whic … | Continue reading
Tesla is making a bid to acquire sustainable energy company SolarCity, the car company announced today."We are pleased to submit to you and the SolarCity board of directors a proposal to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of SolarCity in exchange for Tesla comm … | Continue reading
The great Elon Musk empire is consolidating. Today his electric car and battery company Tesla announced its offer to acquire his solar panel installation company SolarCity. Recently SolarCity had its value downgraded, making it an easier acquisition target. Together the companies … | Continue reading
Tesla has made an offer to acquire SolarCity, the solar energy company Elon Musk cofounded. In a blog post announcing the deal, Tesla says it has offered to buy the company for “approximately 21% to 30% over the closing price of SolarCity’s shares.” SolarCity closed the day with … | Continue reading
Today Adobe announced that it saw “record” revenues of $1.4 billion and $0.71 earnings per share during its second 2016 quarter (yes, another record). Analysts had expected revenues of about $1.40 billion and earnings of $0.68 per share. With today’s earnings report, Adobe’s bigg … | Continue reading
When you’re one of the richest persons on the planet and arguably the most powerful man in technology, how do you keep yourself safe from potential voyeuristic hackers? For Mark Zuckerberg. it seems you just need a little bit of tape. Zuckerberg posted a congratulatory message to … | Continue reading
Google will support all Nexus devices with monthly security updates for 3 years after release or 18 months after they leave the Google Store. | Continue reading
Multi-factor authentication is an important part of keeping your online accounts secure, but the process is notoriously cumbersome. Google is attempting to streamline the task by allowing you to authenticate with a tap on your smartphone. | Continue reading
Tesla’s Model S might just help you live out your James Bond fantasies. Even though Tesla's CEO Elon Musk does not recommend it, the car "floats well enough to turn into a boat for short periods of time." Musk made the revelation after a video surfaced of a man driving a Model S … | Continue reading
A couple weeks back, Reddit announced that it would be providing its own image hosting solution to a handful of subreddits. The experiment appears to have been a success, because the site announced today that the feature is rolling out to any SFW subreddit that wants to take adva … | Continue reading
In 2013, Ticketmaster lost a class action lawsuit over its shady processing fees. This week, those of us who purchased tickets between October 1999 and February 2013 reap the rewards of the court case in the form of free ticket vouchers applicable to a limited set of shows pre-se … | Continue reading
Nissan confirms its 200-mile EV: the 2018 Nissan Leaf. It arrives late this year with a 60-kWh battery. Cost-conscious buyers should be able to get 100-mile Leafs with small battery packs. | Continue reading
Yahoo this morning launched a new travel guide for iOS it’s calling Yahoo Radar. While the app will offer traditional travel companion type features like restaurant recommendations and details on popular attractions, landmarks, and other sights in a given city, the app will be mo … | Continue reading
If you thought the clothes at Nordstrom were expensive, just wait until see how much the electric cars are going for.SEE ALSO: BMW plans to turn old i3 EV batteries into home energy storage systemsTesla has been waging a war to sell cars outside the dealership system across the U … | Continue reading
Here’s a bit of unexpected news: Apple is doing away with the traditional two-year iPhone cycle, according to the Wall Street Journal. In other words, don’t expect anything special from this year’s model. The good news is that 2017’s should be just as awesome as 2016’s will be du … | Continue reading
Instagram has announced it now has 500 million users, 300 million of whom use the social media platform every single day. | Continue reading
Port Canaveral — the busy naval port on Florida’s Space Coast — is considering making a big change to its tariff fees. Specifically, the port is mulling over charging companies a hefty fee for bringing "aerospace" or "aircraft items" into the harbor. If the new change goes into e … | Continue reading
Thoughts on how to respond to negative feedback to shape perception, rather than let the incident define it, taking control of the narrative. | Continue reading
Yahoo has launched an application to make it easier for people to plan their next trip. Called Yahoo Radar, it brings the company’s search, communication, and content areas together to help you research your destination. With elements that you’d find in Kayak, TripIt, and TripAdv … | Continue reading
After watching other social networks get rich off of video, Twitter’s tuning in.Brevity that inspires information density has always been what’s magical about Twitter. In 140 characters or 6-seconds you could laugh or learn something. But Vine’s tiny time limit and the 30-second … | Continue reading
Twitter is extending the video length in both Twitter and Vine to 140 seconds, adding a new dedicated video section to Twitter and paying Vine creators. | Continue reading
The days of the 30-second restriction for videos on Twitter are over, Twitter announced on Tuesday alongside other coming changes to videos on the platform.SEE ALSO: Twitter's best tweets during this past weekTwitter users can now tweet videos up to 140 seconds long, matching the … | Continue reading
Twitter has announced a new standalone analytics app aiming to better serve its celebrity and power/marketing users, and — it surely hopes — eke out more activity on its platform in the process by making its highest profile users more effective tweeters. Read More | Continue reading
You can now share your live videos on Tumblr. The company has added publishing and discovery support for the increasingly prolific video format on its blogging platform, which means that you can now post your videos from YouTube, YouNow, Kanvas, and Upclose to your site. Android … | Continue reading
Tumblr this morning announced support for live video on its service, confirming our report from yesterday that such a move was in the works. The feature will allow Tumblr users to live stream video directly to their followers’ Dashboards, and will also send out push notifications … | Continue reading
Tumblr is getting into live-streaming — but don't worry, it isn't launching yet another live-streaming platform. Instead, Tumblr will integrate with existing platforms, starting with YouTube, YouNow, Kanvas, and Upclose. Beginning today, you'll be able to share a live stream from … | Continue reading
You can buy an unlocked BlackBerry Priv on eBay right now for just $299.99, less than half its retail price through carriers. | Continue reading
Instagram today hit 500 million monthly active users, of which 300 use it daily. That's up from 400 million in September. | Continue reading
Instagram has announced that it now has 500 million users — two thirds (300 million) of whom use the photo- and video-sharing service every day. Today’s news comes nine months after Instagram revealed its previous notable milestone of 400 million, and four years after Facebook ac … | Continue reading
Adobe is launching a major update to its Creative Cloud applications today that includes a number of useful new features to core tools like Photoshop and introduces new features and services around its Adobe Stock stock imagery services.The marquee feature of today’s release is c … | Continue reading
With the latest update to Creative Cloud, Adobe has added Content-aware crop, Face-recognition for Liquify, VR support, as well as enhanced Adobe Stock integration and some other goodies | Continue reading
Instagram has announced that it has reached the milestone of 500 million monthly users. That's a commonly used metric that has its limitations when it comes to tracking just how engaged users are with a given app, but Instagram says that over 300 million of those people use the s … | Continue reading
As an influential celebrity on the go, you've heard about Twitter, and your handlers are always telling you about what it can do for your brand. But what are you supposed to tweet about? And what happens if a normal tweets at you? Enter Engage, a new standalone app for influentia … | Continue reading
Instagram has reached a new milestone. The photo sharing app now counts more than 500 million monthly active users, up from 400 million in September, Instagram announced Tuesday.SEE ALSO: Dear millennials: Instagram doesn't owe you anythingOf those, more than 300 million people u … | Continue reading
Twitter is extending the length of Vine uploads for a select few users to 140 seconds, and making the same format available to all on Twitter proper. There’s also a new iOS app called ‘Engage’ to help you track analytics. Previously, Twitter supported videos of 30 seconds or shor … | Continue reading
80% of Instagram users come from outside the US, up from 75% in September, showing the popularity of pretty pictures that cross language barriers. It still has 100 million in the US, which command high rates for ads delivered through new video units and Facebook’s Ads API. But pe … | Continue reading
Number26, a Peter Thiel-backed German startup that’s setting out to create the bank account of the future, has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Horizons Ventures. Battery Ventures, Robert Gentz, David Schneider, and Rubin Ritter also joined the round as new investors … | Continue reading
Photographers are always happy to have another backup, so Western Digital is introducing a new hard drive meant to make it easier to store photos while on the go. The new drive is called the My Passport Wireless Pro — it's an updated model of the My Passport Wireless that was int … | Continue reading
Discover tips and best practices for hosting a Twitter chat that will help you build authority, brand awareness & deepen your connection with your audience. | Continue reading