Amazon today said it will increase the price of its Amazon Prime service from $99 to $119 on May 11. “We continue to increase the value of Prime,” said Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky during the company’s quarterly earnings call with analysts. Amazon Prime scores members expedited shipping, shipping discounts, and access to cloud-based services such […]
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Square today shared it’s buying website builder Weebly for $365 million( a mix of cash and stock). Square says it plans to merge Square’s hardware and software for payments with Weebly’s website hosting, design, and online stores to offer a single solution for starting and running businesses across physical and digital storefronts. “Square began its […]
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Nintendo’s announcement that company president Tatsumi Kimishima would step down at the end of June caught the video game world off guard Thursday. Shuntaro Furukawa, who will take the reins once shareholders sign off on the transition, is something of an unknown to investors and gamers, but his ascension could mark the start of a […]
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Qualcomm is weighing a major change in strategy to ensure that its patent-licensing business continues to earn money. As it functions now, Qualcomm charges device makers a percentage of the total sale price to cover patented technology within. The more the phone costs, the more Qualcomm earns per device. Some believe this practice is unfair, […]
Mozilla just unveiled a new experiment called Hubs, which makes it easy to get together with others in virtual reality. Hubs works in the browser, and since it’s built on the WebVR standard, it supports “every single mixed reality headset,” Mozilla’s Sean White wrote in a blog post. That includes the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, […]
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The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences unveiled the winners of the 22nd Annual Webby Awards. Honorees include HBO’s Game of Thrones for, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Rise Up for Public Service & Activism, and Lady Gaga for her documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two. Other winners include Jay Z, director Steven Soderbergh, actor Jesse Williams, #MeToo […]
The name Futuremark is PC benchmarking for many people. They have been in the game for over 20 years. Today we got word the company’s owners have retired the name in favor of its parent company branding. Futuremark will now be known as UL. UL Benchmarks (Futuremark) makes and distributes the 3DMark, PCMark, and VRMark […]
The European Commission is holding up Apple’s planned acquisition of Shazam. “The Commission is concerned that the merger could reduce choice for users of music streaming services,” said the Commission in a statement. Shazam is used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide to query song identities. It is available to Android and iOS devices […]
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ZTE will have an opportunity to ask the U.S. Commerce Department to change its mind regarding the government’s decision to ban U.S. corporations from selling hardware or software to ZTE for a period of seven years. An official at the Commerce Department said the agency has given ZTE permission to present more information regarding the […]
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The U.S. Justice Department is investigating AT&T and Verizon for secretly colluding to put carrier-locking ability into the new eSIM industry standard, according to the New York Times. eSIM technology eliminates the physical SIM card that gives a phone its number and identity on the network, replacing it with a virtual SIM that can be loaded […]