Apple Inc., seeking to capitalize on the popularity of social networks, is developing a video sharing and editing app…
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Twitter suspends 235,000 more accounts over extremism
Twitter suspended 235,000 accounts that promoted terrorism over the last six months, as part of a continuing effort…
Yup, your parents are using Snapchat
According to new stats from ratings company comScore, the burn-after-reading photo and video sharing app…
You can now post photos to Instagram from any app on your iPhone
It took a while, but it finally happened: Instagram now has a convenient way of uploading pictures…
Twitter users now trust social media influencers nearly as much as their friends
Respondents said they’ve purchased an item online after seeing it used by an influencer on Instagram, Twitter, Vine or YouTube…
Apple Music Connect: Ping redux
Apple Music Connect is going to be one of a long line of Apple software and services that is rolled out and ignored…
Apple Music needs a web widget
Every now and then, on Facebook, someone shares a song or album from Spotify….
Former senior Apple PR exec Natalie Kerris joins Twitter as VP of Global Communications
A few weeks ago it was rumored that Natalie Kerris could be joining Twitter in a new leadership position…
Apple patent application reveals work on social network with ‘staggering implications’
Recent filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office reveal that Apple looks to be forming a social network to compete directly with Facebook…
Stephen Fry: Too many people have peed in the pool
It’s no big deal – as it shouldn’t be. But yes, for anyone interested I have indeed…
Mossberg: Twitter has become secret-handshake software
Hardly a day has gone by recently when people interested in tech haven’t found another alarming headline about Twitter…
Catch up time: The lost year of Beats Music and how that may not matter for Apple
Apple is expected to debut Apple Music, a subscription streaming-music service…
Can Apple convince Spotify users to pay $10 a month for music?
Apple Inc. is reportedly ready to announce its own on-demand streaming music service…
For Apple Music to succeed, iTunes download sales must be sacrificed
One of the business tenets that has led to Apple’s incredible success…
Apple’s all-in bet to be watershed moment for music; $10/month unlimited subscription service and more
Apple is expected to offer unlimited on-demand streaming for $10 a month…
Apple’s music streaming service to have Ping-like social network for artists
Apple’s upcoming Beats-based streaming music service will likely be named…
To understand why Apple bought Beats, you need to understand Lady Gaga
Headphone sales? Music streaming service? Wearables? Music label deals?
Apple’s Beats acquisition may prove to be a huge money maker
Apple’s $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics isn’t a sexy acquisition…
Apple acquires Spotsetter, a social search engine that delivers personalized recommendations for places
Spotsetter, a social search engine using big data to offer personalized…
Two reasons why Apple shouldn’t buy Beats
It’s difficult to determine whether this is a good deal for Apple and its investors
Ben Thompson on possible Beats buy: Is Apple losing what makes Apple, Apple?
If you look back over the history of technology, there have been four epochs…
Nolan Bushnell: Beats is a ‘good deal for Apple,’ but it says Apple is ‘not an innovative tech company’
Post-Steve Jobs, it is just a different kind of company…
Beats Music is actually so good that I’m worried about Apple ruining it
Apple: please don’t ruin Beats Music…
Apple could become most powerful record label in the world with Dr Dre, Jimmy Iovine onboard
This won’t be the first time someone suggested Apple could start its own record label…
Bob Lefsetz on Apple-Beats deal: Tim Cook is an operations guy, he’s clueless, and the company has no vision
You’d think something important had happened…
Apple CEO Tim Cook makes break from managerial style of Steve Jobs
Cook became chief executive in late August 2011, roughly six weeks before Jobs died…
Analyst Sacconaghi on Apple buying Beats: ‘We struggle with the rationale for this deal’
Apple Inc. potentially dropping $3.2 billion for the high-end headphone maker Beats Electronics…
Cody Willard: Apple’s Beats buy is just stupid
Beats headphones are not exactly most audiophile’s dream headphones…
Apple may unveil Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre executive appointments at WWDC
Apple could unveil Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre as its latest recruits next month…
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s pursuit of Beats seen presaging more takeovers
Tim Cook is making a habit of breaking with Apple Inc.’s past…
Former eMusic CEO explains why Apple wants to buy Beats
ormer eMusic CEO Adam Klein discusses the online music business…
Apple’s deep ties with Jimmy Iovine key driver of Beats deal
The seemingly odd cultural fit between the world’s most valuable company and a celebrity-fronted Santa Monica…
Removal of Dr. Dre video about Apple-Beats deal likely means acquisition is real and imminent
There’s been much excitement about the idea that Apple is going to purchase Beats…
Game changer: Apple buying Beats could radically transform the digital music business
There are still many unknowns about Apple’s reported acquisition of Beats…
Jimmy Iovine in talks to join Apple as a ‘special adviser’ to Tim Cook, sources say
Beats Electronics boss and veteran music industry executive Jimmy Iovine…
Apple close to buying Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion, Reuters sources confirm
Apple Inc is close to paying a record $3.2 billion for Beats Electronics…
Dr. Dre boasts of Apple-Beats deal in YouTube video, on Facebook
The clip, since removed from Facebook, was posted by by singer-songwriter Tyrese Gibson…
If Beats deal happens, Apple is acquiring a fad, not quality, and that is troubling
Apple faces tremendous risk if it starts to give more importance to branding than to quality…
If Apple’s really buying Beats, here’s hoping it’s brilliant in a way which isn’t immediately obvious
When you hear that Apple may buy a well-known company…
The reason for Apple’s $3.2 billion interest in Beats? Spotify
At $3.2 billion, the Beats deal would be more than three times larger than any acquisition in Apple’s history…
Apple buying Beats Electronics: Its best idea since the iPad?
Apple is finally growing up…
Why would Apple want to blow $3.2 billion on Beats Electronics?
Apple has never spent even a billion dollars buying another company…
