Year: 2018

01 Feb 2018

Apple’s $1T dreams are on hold as it delivers a disappointing quarter despite iPhone X launch

 Apple’s dream of becoming a $1 trillion company will have to wait — at least for a little while. But while iPhone sales this year were about flat (down about 1% to be exact), revenue from the iPhone rose 13% year-over-year. That means Apple is finding ways to get more revenue out of the same number of units, so it may indeed be finding demand for higher-priced phones amid the… Read More
01 Feb 2018

I spent the morning playing with the Nintendo Labo

 Labo is peak Nintendo. It’s strange, it’s innovative, it’s pretty silly and it’s completely unexpected. As longtime PR rep David Young told us during a quick chat at today’s event, “when people think we’re going to zig, we zag.” Nintendo Labo is Maximum Zag. Read More
01 Feb 2018

Alphabet is tumbling after a fourth quarter whiff and names John Hennessy as new board chair

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - MAY 18: Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during Google I/O 2016 at Shoreline Amphitheatre on May 19, 2016 in Mountain View, California. The annual Google I/O conference is runs through May 20. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Google parent company Alphabet’s big run over the past few months came to a screeching halt today after it came out with its fourth-quarter results, which fell beneath expectations set by Wall Street for the advertising giant — sending the stock down around 5% and shaving off billions in market cap. While Google owns a massive chunk of the advertising system — and it still… Read More
01 Feb 2018

Amazon reports nearly $2 billion in profit, blowing past Wall Street expectations for holiday quarter

Jeff Bezoz, CEO of Amazon. Amazon reported quarterly financials after the bell Thursday for its fourth quarter, the all-important holiday season for the e-commerce giant. And its numbers had some people doing a double take, after earnings per share came in at $3.75, more than double the $1.85 that analysts surveyed by Yahoo Finance were estimating.  Net income was $1.9 billion for the quarter. For the full 2017 year,… Read More
01 Feb 2018

Protecting your business from cyber threats

 Your internet provider calls. Malware associated with the latest botnet has been detected coming from your corporate network. The incident response plans are triggered. The common thought trajectory goes something like: How could this happen? Did someone open a phishing email? Did a hacker breach our firewall? Was a vendor compromised? There goes my weekend. Read More
01 Feb 2018

Snapchat launches in-app Snap Store to sell merch

 After losing $440 million last quarter, Snap Inc is launching a merchandise store…but the goal isn’t to make money. Today the company launched the Snap Store which lives in the Snapchat app’s Discover section and lets you buy Snapchat merchandise liek a $20 Dancing Hot Dog Plushie or a $30 Dog Lens T-Shirt. You can scan the Snap Code below with the Snapchat camera to open… Read More
01 Feb 2018

The sad state of crypto custody

 Not a week goes without another report of bad news in the crypto world: funds get lost, stolen, or compromised with little or no possibility of recovery. This is a problem we don’t really have with typical fiat money — where our funds and banks are insured. And it highlights how broken the current state of affairs is in the industry. Ten years in blockchain have already provided… Read More
01 Feb 2018

Airbnb CFO Laurence Tosi is out

 Airbnb CFO Laurence Tosi is leaving the company, Airbnb announced today. This comes shortly after The Information reported there were some tensions brewing between Brian Chesky and Tosi over the future of the company. Read More