For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $81.4 billion and net quarterly profit of $21.7 billion, or $1.30 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $59.7 billion and net quarterly profit of $11.25 billion, or $0.65 per diluted share, in… Read More ›
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The Commodore PET smartphone
It will only mark the attempt of a small company to buy an off-the-shelf smartphone from China and ship it with a white casing and a slightly weird looking take on the Commodore logo. To justify selling under the Commodore… Read More ›
Owner of WordPress buys Pocket Casts
We’re excited to announce that Pocket Casts will be joining Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com. More than 80M people in the US listen to a podcast weekly, and this critically acclaimed podcast app makes it easier for fans to… Read More ›
Your contact list is spilling over to the Internet
When apps ask for access to your address book and you consent, the data-sharing doesn’t always stop there. The names and contact information that used to stay safe in analog address books now float around the data economy, bouncing from… Read More ›
Inside Big Tech’s war for your privacy
Under the banner of a group called Marketers for an Open Web, Rosewell filed a complaint with the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority last year, charging Google with trying to shut out its smaller competitors, while Google itself continued to… Read More ›
Immediately disconnect your My Book Live device
Immediately disconnect your My Book Live device from the Internet to protect your data from ongoing attacks. You can disconnect the device and continue to access your data locally by following these instructions on our Knowledge Base. Some My Book… Read More ›
Opt out, if you can
You have until June 23, 2021 to opt-out of your NHS data being shared with researchers and companies outside of the national health service. Privacy campaigners have raised serious concerns about plans from NHS Digital, which will see the medical… Read More ›
Monitored via webcam for home-working ‘infractions’
In a sign of potential battles ahead over the surveillance of remote staff after the pandemic, Teleperformance – which employs about 380,000 people in 34 countries and counts dozens of major UK companies and government departments among its clients –… Read More ›
Sublet your home broadband
Launched in January, IPRoyal pays residential internet users in exchange for “sharing” their internet service, something many internet service providers like Sonic Internet [PDF] and Comcast prohibit in their terms of service. And it sells access to that bandwidth to… Read More ›
Squarespace: a $10 billion valuation
Squarespace has raised $300 million in a round of funding that values the company at a staggering $10 billion valuation. New backers include Dragoneer, Tiger Global, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, funds and accounts advised by T…. Read More ›