Tag : Big Tech Companies

Tag: Big Tech Companies

Google's Chrome browser will block battery-draining, data-guzzling ads

Google is working to make the Chrome browser shut down ads that drain your device’s battery life or needlessly consume your internet’s bandwidth. The scale of the problem is pretty minor, affecting 0.3 percent of all the ads on th...

Facebook to acquire Giphy for $400 million

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what’s a GIF worth? Apparently hundreds of millions of dollars. Facebook has agreed to a deal with Giphy to acquire the GIF platform for $400 million, according to Axios. The report points out how...

Netflix starts to bring streaming quality back to normal

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An iPad mini with a larger display might be coming and I'm very excited

Listen up, iPad mini lovers: your dream might be coming true. A new note by Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (via MacRumors) claims Apple is working on two new iPads: a 10.8-inch iPad and an 8.5 to 9-inch iPad mini. According to Kuo, these two devi...

Amazon to sell its own face shields and this is normal now

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Amazon's proposed federal anti-price gouging law (surprise!) protects Amazon

Amazon is worried about its customers getting ripped off — well, that and being held legally responsible for it. The ecommerce giant published a plea Wednesday for lawmakers to finally do something about the very real problem of price g...

Chrome’s newest feature could fix one of its biggest problems

Wrangling your numerous Google Chrome tabs is about to get a little easier. Google announced Wednesday that the next version of Chrome will let users group open tabs together with custom name tags and even colors. The feature, which is currently li...

Samsung might soon launch a $1,100 version of the Galaxy Fold

If the $1,980 price tag on Samsung's Galaxy Fold is too much for you (it is), and you really want a foldable phone, you'll be happy to know that there might be a far more affordable option coming. SamMobile reported Wednesday, quoting Display...

Slack was down and the timing couldn't have been worse

UPDATE: May 12, 2020, 5:47 p.m. PDT And just like that, service is back up! You can all press pause on your Slack panic for now. Original story: It's not you, it's Slack. Slack confirmed on Twitter that service in parts of the U.S., Japan, and Aus...

Not even Jack Dorsey can figure out how to use Periscope

Look, we get it: Technology is hard. It's just that, you know, you might expect a company's co-founder and CEO to know how to use his own product. Well, in the case of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, it turns out that your expectations would be more...

Facebook is part of a group that will reportedly run ads to fight Silicon Valley regulations

As the U.S. government gets more serious about regulating Silicon Valley, Facebook will help a new group fund counterattacks. The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources, reported that Facebook is part of a political advocacy group called America...