(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File) The country's leading tech companies are recalling overseas employees and sharply criticizing President Trump in the wake of his order on Friday that barred foreign Muslims from entering the United States for 120 days. Google chief executive Sundar Pichai late on…

While other tech leaders glad-hand with The Donald, Mark Zuckerberg is facing him head on. Today the Facebook CEO called out the President for his unamerican views that demonize immigrants, while also tactfully encouraging the few positive policies and comments Trump has offered on the subject. You…

Attendees of the Google I/O 2016 developers conference in Mountain View, California, last year. Stephen Lam/Reuters SAN FRANCISCO — It is almost boring how predictably good Alphabet ’s earnings are these days — a trait not always shared by the company’s tech conglomerate peers. Apple is wildly…

Google reported mixed earnings for its fourth quarter today — but we’re starting to see some flashes of improvement in its “other bets” category, which is where it stuffs pretty much everything that lives outside of Google proper. In the fourth quarter, Alphabet’s other bets recorded $262 million in…

Credit: Ann Singer Senior executives at Qualcomm slammed Apple on Wednesday for lawsuits filed in the last week alleging the smartphone chip-maker significantly overcharged it for licensing fees. The spat saw cases filed last Friday in California and this week in Beijing and were top of mind when…

Qualcomm CEO Stephen Mollenkopf shows off the company's new Snapdragon 835 chip at CES 2017. James Martin/CNET Bring it on, Apple -- at least, that's what Qualcomm's top executives seemed to be saying Wednesday. Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf and Derek Aberle, head of the wireless chipmakers's…

Instagram put a dent in Snapchat by putting its own version of Snapchat Stories atop its feed, and now Facebook is doing the same. Today Facebook launched Facebook Stories in Ireland on iOS and Android, with plans to bring it to more countries in the coming months. The feature lets you share…

Microsoft is adding a “Game Mode” to Windows 10 that’ll optimize the system for playing video games. We’ve known for a week or so that this feature was coming soon, and now Microsoft is starting to explain how it’ll work. When a system goes into Game Mode, it’ll “prioritize CPU and GPU resources to…

Wednesday January 25, 2017 7:37 AM PST by Verizon customers running the new iOS 10.3 beta have discovered that the carrier has added an option for Integrated Calling (Calls on Other Devices). The feature enables iPhone users to make and receive Wi-Fi calls on other iCloud -connected devices,…

Dell is announcing a trio of new Chromebooks today, and the most interesting of the bunch is a convertible laptop that works with a stylus. Fittingly named the Chromebook 11 Convertible, the laptop can flip around to be used like a tablet, works with the “Dell Productivity Active Pen,” and can be…

Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now is a cinematic classic. Now, nearly 40 years later, Francis Ford Coppola has assembled a group of game designers to adapt the movie into a video game, and they’re turning to Kickstarter to fund it . Yeah. According to Deadline , the game…

Image source: Apple. Earlier this month, Apple filed a blockbuster lawsuit against its most important supplier, Qualcomm , alleging a wide range of transgressions that were all intended to enhance Qualcomm's monopoly power over the baseband processor market. That suit came just days after the U.S.…

RealPage , a provider of software and data analytics to the real estate industry, is growing its operation and seeking to create an apartment data giant with a pair of deals. RealPage announced Wednesday that it agreed to acquire “substantially all of the assets” of Axiometrics , a provider of…

Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to acquire AppDynamics Inc. for $3.7 billion, snapping up the fast-growing software maker just before it planned to go public. Cisco, the world’s biggest maker of networking gear, will add AppDynamics’ software and services that help companies to monitor and fine-tune the…

Tuesday January 24, 2017 11:10 AM PST by Alongside iOS 10 .3 and macOS Sierra 10.12.4, Apple is introducing new App Store review features for developers. Going forward, developers will be able to respond to customer reviews on the App Store "in a way that is available for all customers to see." This…

D.J. Koh, head of Samsung's mobile business, explains Sunday during a press conference in Korea what caused the Note 7 to overheat. Samsung For Samsung, it's not all about the Galaxy Note 7 -- at least not when it comes to financial results. Even as it faces a hit of more than $5 billion (spread…

Yahoo announces fourth-quarter earnings, as it awaits its fate with Verizon. Ethan Miller, Getty Images Yahoo, dealing with questions around two massive hacks, said Monday it's pushing the timeline of its expected $4.8 billion buyout by Verizon from the first quarter to the second quarter of this…

SEOUL Samsung Electronics Co Ltd plans on Monday to reveal reasons behind the spontaneous combustion of its recalled Galaxy Note 7, as the world's biggest smartphone maker works to regain consumer trust before launching its next premium model. The announcement would come more than three months after…

21 January 2017, 12:00 pm EST By Joshua King Tech Times Virtual Reality - Five Things You Should Know Now Playing Youngest Tech Billionaires Now Playing The Samsung Galaxy S7 and Google Pixel go head-to-head and face off against each in the battle of superior specifications. Here's a look at which…

President Donald Trump (Photo: Robert Deutsch, Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY) WASHINGTON —- As President Trump delivered his inaugural address Friday, his new White House team posted a proposal to eliminate President Obama's environmental regulations. "For too long, we’ve been held back by burdensome…

Story highlights The switchover was planned as part of the formal presidential transition The Obama administration website has been archived at a different address Washington (CNN) The moment that Donald Trump took the oath of office and became the 45th President, a transformation occurred --…

Apple latest lawsuit target? Qualcomm. The iPhone maker on Friday filed suit against Qualcomm, alleging the wireless chipmaker didn't give fair licensing terms for its processor technology. Apple also said Qualcomm sought to punish it for cooperating in a South Korean investigation into Qualcomm's…

FCC commissioner Ajit Pai (R) and former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler. Getty/Chip Somodevilla President Donald Trump plans to name Ajit Pai as his head of the Federal Communications Commission, according to a report from Politico's Alex Byers and Tony Romm . Pai has served as a GOP commissioner at the…

Is the hot new camera app hiding something? That was the question bubbling up this week, as a Chinese photo-editing app called Meitu began to catch on with stateside users. It was a natural hit, trading in gauzy filters as recognizable as they are shareable. But while out-of-nowhere naivete was part…

AT&T Inc. said its new streaming-video service, DirecTV Now, added at least 200,000 paying subscribers in December, its first month of operation, giving investors a first glimpse into the launch of the business. Continue Reading Below The service was released Nov. 30 with promotional pricing and…

Amit Singhal will work to build out the software and infrastructure that are the foundation of Uber’s ride-hailing services. Jason Henry for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Uber and Google have long been bitter rivals in the race to build the autonomous vehicles that appear integral to the future…

An investigation into the cause of faulty batteries that led Samsung Electronics Co. to pull all of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones last year found that some batteries were irregularly sized, causing overheating, while others had manufacturing problems, according to people familiar with the matter.…

Amazon’s latest ( physical ) Dash button is like a “I’m Feeling Lucky” for candy. When pressed, the button will send you a box with a random assortment of small-batch candy made by “artisans from across the nation”. The box will cost $18 (with two-day free Prime shipping of course) and can be…

President Trump is officially the 45th President of the United States. Minutes after the inauguration, the White House’s LGBT rights page disappeared , as well as any mention of the terms “climate change” and “global warming.” The @POTUS Twitter account has been handed over to Trump and the first…

President Trump delivers his inaugural address on the west front of the Capitol on Jan. 20, 2017. (Photo: Porter Binks, USA TODAY) Presidents typically avoid facts and figures when delivering inaugural addresses, serving up a blend of broad platitudes and generalities to lay out a vision. President…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is going to great lengths to protect his privacy on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, where he purchased a 700-acre plot of land in 2014 for more than $100 million. Starting last month, Zuckerberg began filing lawsuits against Hawaiian land owners who own small slices of his…

The new Apple Pencil could work on your iPad, your iPhone, and even on your new MacBook Pro. Apple will reportedly unveil the Apple Pencil 2 in March, alongside a new 10.5-inch iPad Pro, according to Chinese website Wei Feng . The Apple Pencil was first introduced in late 2015, and there hasn’t been…

Microsoft is enabling Windows users who buy Windows subscription plans like Windows 10 Enterprise E3 and E5 through the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program to upgrade from Windows 7 and 8.1 for free. Credit: Microsoft "Customers subscribed to Windows 10 Enterprise E3 and E5 as well as Secure…

Porting Win32 code from Windows Server to Microsoft Azure Azure offers both PaaS and IaaS. But if you’re moving Win32 application code to the cloud, we have some bad news: there is no Win32 equivalent that can run C++ code natively on Microsoft Azure’s PaaS. If your goal is to migrate a C++…

Fujifilm announced two new cameras today , the fixed-lens X100F and the interchangeable lens X-T20. Both cameras are updates to prior models in Fujifilm’s lineup, and introduce the 24.3-megapixel sensor and new processor from the company’s higher-end cameras. While the biggest update in both cameras…

version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images Uber will pay $20 million and alter various business practices in order to settle claims brought by the FTC that the ride-hailing company mislead drivers on how much they would make driving for Uber.…

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