Roy Zipstein This is an older photo, not from the iPhone 5 launch Apple says it sold over 2 million iPhone 5s in China during its opening weekend of sales. Apple hasn’t previously announced opening weekend sales for China, to our knowledge. CEO Tim Cook says this is a record for opening weekend sales...
Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Apple is getting another price cut from a Wall Street analyst. But this time, there’s a twist. It’s also getting its rating cut. Citi’s trio of Apple analysts, Glen Yeung, Walter Pritchard, and Jim Suva, are cutting Apple’s price target to $575, and rating it neutral, down from buy....
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Non-profit digital library and creator of the WayBack Machine, the Internet Archive, is attempting to raise enough funds to buy 4 petabytes of storage before the year’s end. So far, the archive has only brought in 25% of its total goal, or one petabyte of storage. As of October 2012, the Internet Archive maintained...
As well as being the most popular video site in the world, YouTube is also the second biggest search engine next to Google, its parent company. Considering that over four billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube, we’re spending more time than ever on the site. Now that the site has...
Apple launched the iPhone 5 in China on Friday and, despite speculation that the device got a lukewarm greeting on arrival, Apple has announced that it sold “more than 2 million” units over the opening weekend. That sets a new record for the company in China, as CEO Tim Cook explained in a canned...
Google’s webmail service Gmail was down for 18 minutes last week after a “routine update” broke the service for a few minutes. The search giant reported that it conducted a routine update of its load balancing software between 8:45 AM PT and 9:13 AM PT and after the problems were detected managed to quickly...
At our firm Astrid, we always say our goal is to compete on experience, not features. After all, a great user experience can feel magical and create evangelists – and a botched one can lose users forever. However, creating these experiences requires bold changes and buy-in by all parts of the organization – design, engineering,...
The New York times reported Sunday details related to the acquisition of Instagram by Facebook that could spell legal concerns for both Instagram and Facebook. The Times reports that even though Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom testified in August that the company “never received any offers,” before the Facebook sale, there were verbal agreements between...
“This is hardly a real place.” That was our bus driver’s comment as he escorted us from the Auckland International Airport to our hotel downtown, where we would have a few hours to settle in before beginning what would be a whirlwind tour of New Zealand. And he was right — the scenery made...