With details on millions of events of all sorts all over the world, Facebook is — among many other things — the closest thing the world has to a universal repository of things to do, such as concerts, parties, book readings a...
Back in March, I wrote about MoviePass, a service which lets you pay a flat fee and go to dozens of movies a month, at almost any theater in America. Its creators aren’t partnering with theaters; instead, they’ve come up with...
A month ago, when Facebook released Facebook Home, its Facebook-centric home screen for Android phones, the company said it planned to update it every month. And, good to its word, it plans to release an update later today. The update is...
In 1998, a new search engine from an obscure startup launched. It featured a logo, a text field and buttons for search and “I’m Feeling Lucky” — and not much else. Its name, as I don’t actually have to tell ...
Yesterday, Adobe announced that it would henceforth focus its efforts on Creative Cloud — its pay-as-you-go, all-you-can-eat service which incorporates Photoshop, Illustrator and other tools — and would no longer offer meanin...
I may maintain that the fact that Microsoft has sold 100 million Windows 8 licenses in six months doesn’t mean much. But that doesn’t mean that Windows sales figures aren’t interesting. In fact, Microsoft’s news m...
With Windows — perhaps more than any other major tech product — it's difficult to come to definitive conclusions about how it's doing based on raw numbers. A gigantic number of new PCs are going to ship with the cur...
A year ago, Adobe started selling Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and its other creative software in a new way: as a service called Creative Cloud. They’re still big, powerful applications that you download and install on a Window...
I still can’t get used to using the words Windows and underdog in the same sentence. But when it comes to tablets, Windows 8 is still an also-ran: according to IDC, Windows and Windows RT tablets accounted for just 3.7% of tablets ...
Jim Edwards of The Business Insider has a long, fascinating piece on eBay’s top two affiliates — one earned $28 million in commissions for sending customers to the auction site, the other $7 million — and how eBay event...
