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March 8, 2016
Square's First Earnings Report: Can Dorsey Turn Things Around?
Expectations aren't high for Square's first earnings as a public company. But is it really Jack Dorsey's fault?
Today is a milestone for Square: Its first earnings report as a publicly traded company. The mobile payments firm, which filed for its IPO late last year, isn't expected to blow away investors with its 4Q and fiscal year results. Is it just early for Square or is this a sign that major changes are needed?
Microsoft's New Video Honors Badass, Underappreciated Women Inventors
The International Women's Day video asks young girls about female inventors—and reveals the pervasive male bias in American education.
Nikola Tesla, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein: These are some of the names school-age girls came up with when Microsoft asked them to name inventors for a new video in honor of International Women's Day.
Review: Samsung's Galaxy S7 And S7 Edge Are Nice Phones With Spectacular Cameras
Much of the evolution from last year's models is subtle. But the moment you take pictures, you'll notice a difference.
For seven generations now, Samsung's Galaxy S series of smartphones have been torn between two conflicting impulses. Much of the time, as Apple partisans and other detractors have so often charged, Galaxy phones have been the industry's most high-profile iPhone wannabes. But Samsung's strategy for competing with the iPhone has often involved offering features designed to set its products apart from Apple's phone. That, at times, has included gimmicks, which is tough to imagine an iPhone ever offering, such as a screen that scrolls when you tilt your head.
This Drone Can Map The World In 3-D
And upload those digital maps to the cloud on the fly.
Once just considered remote-controlled toys, drones in the past few years have become essential tools for many industries, including film, agriculture, and security. And each year those industries want drones with increasingly broad capabilities, which is why 3D Robotics, Sony, and Autodesk have teamed up to create a drone that can capture video and rapidly convert that footage into 3-D maps of an area, The Verge reports.
Apple Pay Arrives At ExxonMobil Gas Stations--With A Twist
Why pay at the pump when you can pay from the comfort of your driver's seat?
Starting today, 6,100 ExxonMobil fuel stations will accept Apple Pay. The company expects that figure to reach 8,000 locations by mid-year, and that all of its U.S. Exxon and Mobil stations—there are nearly 10,000 of them—will be Apple Pay-ready by the end of 2016.
March 7, 2016
Justice Department Files To Reverse Apple's Encryption Win In Brooklyn Federal Court
The final outcome of the Brooklyn case could impact a similar case involving San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's iPhone 5c.
The Justice Department has appealed a Brooklyn, New York federal judge's February 29 refusal to order Apple to help break into the iPhone of a suspected drug trafficker. It's the latest move in Apple's high-profile legal joust with the Justice Department over providing a "back door" to encrypted user data.
Security Pros React To Apple VP Federighi's Op-Ed On Dispute With FBI
Apple must explain to the public how helping the FBI in one case could endanger the personal data security of millions of iPhone users.
With an op-ed by software VP Craig Federighi in the Washington Post today, Apple used its top software guy to explain why the company is refusing to help the FBI break into the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook.
Facebook Ad Server Atlas Doubles Down On Serving Video And Native Ads
On Monday, Facebook said it would retire an ad-buying beta program it launched last year through Atlas, the company's ad server.
Facebook announced on Monday that it is shutting down a buying platform that the company had been testing since last year, through its ad server, Atlas. The move comes after Facebook discovered the program was plagued by low-value advertising—in large part due to the popularity of banner ads—which means marketers were wasting ad dollars on content that did not attract enough eyeballs.
Job Posting Hints at Amazon Video's Plans To Build A VR Platform
The tech giant is hiring someone to lead the VR experience "within Amazon Video."
Amazon Video could soon be producing its own virtual reality content—that's what a new job posting by the e-commerce giant suggests.
FCC Busts Verizon Wireless For Tracking Users Without Consent
Wireless giant agrees to $1.35 million fine and requirements to ask customers permission to share data with advertisers.
Worried that you are being followed? If you've been a Verizon Wireless customer in the last three years or so, you have been. The good news: Thanks to a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Verizon can no longer share some data about you with outside advertising partners, unless it first gets permission. But it can still collect some personal data for its own advertising programs, unless you specifically opt out of the program.
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