After over 18 years on Google's (and parent Alphabet's) board of directors, Eric Schmidt will be leaving the position in June, the company told investors yesterday.
Following the release of its [fiscal] Q2 2019 financial results, Apple's CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri hopped on a conference call to talk about the company's performance over the past 3 months. As usual, we've rounded up some of the more interesting points from the call below.
Instagram is gaining four cool new features while testing killing the like count on photos with a small percentage of users in Canada as a way to combat bots that generate fake likes.
Facebook's annual F8 developers conference kicked off today with news that a desktop Messenger app is in the works, but we've now learned details of what the company has in store for the mobile messaging app which is getting rebuilt for speed and small memory footprint.
Samsung today announced its 2019 first-quarter earnings and the numbers don't look good: operating profits fell to $5.4 billion, a 60 percent decline marking the weakest results since late 2016 and a far cry from the $13.4 billion in operating profits it captured in the year-ago quarter.
Solid evidence surfaced today regarding the native Facebook Messenger app that will be hitting the Mac platform later this year, with leaked images and videos depicting a user interface that looks like a cross between the Skype app and Apple's Messages software.
According to a supply chain report published Tuesday in the Chinese-language Economic Daily News, relayed by DigiTimes, contract manufacturer Foxconn has continued to deepen its deployments in micro-LED technology "through a multi-pronged approach in order to win display orders from Apple for its next-generation iPhone devices."
Apple yesterday acknowledged that its photo management and editing software Aperture for Mac will not run in future macOS version after macOS Mojave.
Longtime Apple hardware engineering executive Rubén Caballero has left the company, The Information reports. Caballero was in charge of working with suppliers to integrate modems into Apple's smartphones, and was spearheading its efforts in the 5G space.
A recent report claimed Apple will port the iOS Screen Time feature over to the desktop so folks could see how their computing time is spent (or wasted, depending on your point of view). The upcoming macOS 10.15 feature will probably use the company's Marzipan framework that helps developers create cross-platform apps across iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Totally wireless, Beats-branded Powerbeats Pro sporty earphones will be available to pre-order from Apple.com beginning this coming Friday at 7am Pacific Time in the United States and Canada ahead of in-store availability starting Friday, May 10.
We wrote about Marvis, a music player for iPhone by Aditya Rajveer, back when it launched four years ago, praising its smooth look and plenty of novel features.