Facebook reports bad quarter, and loses $120B in the process

Facebook will surely recover from this bad business day and hopefully it will regain the trust lost after the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal

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Selfie-obsessed Meitu seeks IPO in Hong Kong for up to $1 billion

Meitu is more than just a misspelling of “Meizu“. With its smartphones and applications all about you, yourself and your selfie, you might be wondering if there’s a feasible market to keep it running?Maybe. But it definitely wants a feasible market to head into. It has applied for an Initial Public Offering of shares on the Hong Kong stock exchange looking for a valuation from $500 million to ...

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OnePlus 3 sales stoppage called to bring down shipment times

OnePlus has once again found itself in a bind regarding its inventories. This comes as the startup continues to sell the OnePlus 3 smartphone without an invitation queue.CEO Carl Pei wrote in a forum post that the company will have to stop sales of the OnePlus 3 in 25 territories. They ...

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iOS 10 deletes user data from stock apps, not the apps themselves

Pop our bubble, why doesn’t Apple?We mentioned that you can delete certain pre-loaded apps provided by Apple on iOS 10 from your machine. The support page for the topic even uses the word “delete” and the iconography for downloading from the cloud if you decide to put the app back on your device.Turns out, nope.Senior Vice President of software engineering Craig Federighi ...

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iOS 10 overtime: uninstalling default apps, device compatibility

It’s been one doozy of a day with WWDC’s keynote wrapping up in some of the most comprehensive updates to the ecosystem in a while. iOS 10 has brought some big changes to its core features. But you won’t be able to see ...

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Now that Android has matured, do you still feel the need to root?

Rooting is one of those rites of passage that people look to as a milestone in geek cred. Thus, I wasn’t completely surprised when, a couple weeks ago, I mentioned that I’ve never rooted a phone and was met with almost universal negativity. Of course, I didn’t exactly phrase the tweet in a manner to elicit positive responses, so that’s partially my fault. But the fact remains that I still have never rooted an Android phone, so I wanted to dig into the subject a bit and see what I was missing ...

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Donald Trump’s Apple boycott never extended to his own company stock

If “Lying Ted” or “Little Marco” were still in the Presidential race, or “Crooked Hillary” would stoop to the same low blow name-calling tactics as her presumptive opponent from the other side of the aisle, Trump’s recent disclosure of financial investments would provide so much ammo for such an easy derogatory label.Something short and punchy, like maybe “Two-Face Donald” or just “Hypocritical Donald.” Granted, the controversial businessman was heard giving contradictory statements on many delicate issues these past few months, ranging from immigration to foreign ...

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Business magnate Carl Icahn sells Apple stock on concerns about China slowdown

Following a holiday season that saw it both breaking profit records and falling short of sales expectations, and its first year-on-year quarterly revenue dip in over a decade, Apple needs a box-office winner more than ever, and it needs it soon.Unfortunately, the iPhone SE is probably not it, while the Apple Watch 2 and

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