Businesses Stories for 2018

Sony Boosts 3D Camera Output After Interest From Phone Makers 56
Did Apple Retail Prices Get Too High in 2018? Consumers Say Yes. 296
As More Retailers Ban Paper Money, It's Making Things Awkward For Customers Without Plastic 698
Microsoft Says Edge is Still More Power Efficient than Chrome and Firefox 90
How Much Internet Traffic Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. 130
'My Airbnb Guests Threw a New Year's Party For 300 People' 374
YouTube Apologizes For Tweeting Somebody Else's Video 107
Vermont Will Give You $10K If You Move There and Work Remotely 187
How One Merchandiser Lost $1M Trying to Monetize the 'Hamster Dance' Site 62
Netflix Permanently Pulls iTunes Billing For New and Returning Users 108
Sears, the 125-Year-Old Iconic Retailer, Has 24 Hours To Survive 271
HMV, One of UK's Largest Retailers of CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays, Calls in Administrators For Second Time in Six Years 76
'The Language of Capitalism Isn't Just Annoying, It's Dangerous' 510
'Beware Silicon Valley's Gifts To Our Schools' 140
In Some Bay Area Counties, College Grads Have Higher Unemployment 272
Epic Games, the Creator of Fortnite, Banked a $3 Billion Profit in 2018: Report 132
Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis 271
Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US 382
India Curbs Power of Amazon and Walmart To Sell Products Online 135
Tech is Killing Street Food 141
Microsoft's Emergency Internet Explorer Patch Renders Some Lenovo Laptops Unbootable 165
'Amazon Prime is Getting Worse' 267
The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun 371
Huawei Exceeds 200 Million Smartphone Shipments, Setting Company Record 26
Ride Sharing Service Grab is Messing up the World's Largest Mapping Community's Data in Southeast Asia 47
Intel Vows Better Communication With Partners About CPU Shortage 34
Faraday Future Had the Worst Year Possible For an EV Startup 52
Climate Change Drives Fish Into New Waters, Remaking an Industry 87
What Happens After Surprising DNA Test Results? 238
Rare Amiga Bought on eBay For $2,500 56
Apple Spins 'Real Artists Ship' Into 'Share Your Gifts' 68
More Companies Are Trying a Four-Day Work Week 110
YouTuber Admits Aspects of Viral HomePod Glitter Bomb Video Were Faked 187
Can You Really Sue Fortnite For 'Stealing' Your Dance Moves? 141
Google Has a New Review Process For Handling Controversial Projects After Backlash Over Censored Search Product For China 43
Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix For Internet Explorer Zero Day 39
Amazon's Grocery Push Keeps Stumbling After Whole Foods Purchase 132
China Hacked HPE, IBM and Then Attacked Clients, Report Finds 59
This Was the Year the Robot Takeover of Service Jobs Began 207
Intel Attacks Qualcomm for Allegedly Stifling Competition 40
Inside the Unrelenting Scams of the Amazon Marketplace 76
Microsoft Announces Project Mu, an Open-Source Release of the UEFI Core 121
We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites 310
Burnout, Stress Lead More Companies To Try a Four-Day Work Week 147
Google Denies Altering YouTube Code To Break Microsoft Edge 135
Microsoft's New Office App for Windows 10 is Coming To All Office Users For Free 68
Microsoft Announces Windows Sandbox, a Desktop Environment For Running Applications in Isolation 116
SpaceX Raising $500 Million To Help Build Its 'Starlink' Satellite Broadband Network 116
Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Consoles Are Codenamed 'Anaconda' and 'Lockhart' 61
Sphero Discontinues Its BB-8, R2-D2, and Other Licensed Disney Products 65
France Will Tax Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon In New Year 138
'Google Isn't the Company That We Should Have Handed the Web Over To' 331
The Most-Distant Solar System Object Discovered 79
Germany Refuses To Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Real Evidence 127
Former Edge Browser Intern Alleges Google Sabotaged Microsoft's Browser 427
More than Half of Americans Say They Didn't Get a Pay Raise this Year 325
Amazon Wants To Curb Selling 'CRaP' Items it Can't Profit On, Like Bottled Water and Snacks: Report 222
Google To Invest $1 Billion in New Campus in New York City 35
Bing Recommends Piracy Tutorial When Searching For Office 2019 45
How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War 337
Data-Wiping Malware Destroys Data At Italian and UAE Oil and Gas Companies 39
How Microsoft Embraced Python 163
CNN Contributor Urges: Stop Calling Facebook a Tech Company 157
Was Commodore's Amiga 'A Computer Ahead of Its Time'? 418
T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Will Reportedly Be Cleared By US National Security Panel 32
What Are Silicon Valley's Highest-Paying Tech Jobs? 60
Regular Windows 10 Users Who Manually Look For Updates May End Up Downloading Beta Code, Microsoft Says 115
In Booming Job Market, Workers Are 'Ghosting' Their Employers 479
Hiding in Plain Sight: The YouTubers' Crowdfunding Piracy 79
Microsoft Is Readying a Consumer Microsoft 365 Subscription Bundle 92
Google Pledges To Hold Off On Selling Facial Recognition Technology 46
Windows Server 2019 Officially Supports OpenSSH For the First Time 129
The Oil Industry's Covert Campaign To Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules 304
Apple To Build $1B Austin Campus, Add Thousands of Jobs in US Expansion 189
Tesla Is Seeking $167 Million From Former Employee Accused of Sabotage 90
FCC Panel Wants To Tax Internet-Using Businesses, Give the Money To ISPs 243
Google Training Document Reveals How Temps, Vendors, and Contractors Are Treated 136
Apple Is Making Its Own Modem To Compete With Qualcomm, Report Says 80
Facebook Settles Oculus VR Lawsuit With ZeniMax 26
Intel Unveils Roadmaps For Core Architecture and Atom Architecture 60
Intel Reveals 10nm Sunny Cove CPU Cores That Go Deeper, Wider, and Faster 90
The Painful, Costly Journey of Returned Goods -- and How You End Up Purchasing Some of Them Again 280
Amazon Fires Employees Over Data Leak As It Fights Seller Scams, Report Says 48
Google's CEO Thinks Android Users Know How Much Their Phones Are Tracking Them 131
Verizon Admits Defeat With $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo Writedown 100
Comcast Rejected by Small Town -- Residents Vote For Municipal Fiber Instead 311
Facebook is Starting To Test Search Ads in its Search Results and Marketplace 20
Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube 328
What it's Like To Work in the Biggest Building in the World 70
Samsung Embarrassingly Partners With Fake Supreme 117
Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams 105
Walmart Is Reportedly Testing a Burger-Flipping Robot 78
GoPro To Move US-Bound Camera Production Out of China 91
Verizon Announces 10,400 Employees Will Voluntarily Leave the Company 80
What is the Future of Office Spaces? 151
Start-Ups Aren't Cool Anymore 164
Qualcomm Says It Won Case Banning Sale of Older iPhones in China 67
Driveway Encounter With Microsoft's President Led To $25 Million For Code.org 55
Netflix's Biggest Competition Isn't Sleep -- It's YouTube 115
China Forms New Body To Review Ethics Risks of Video Games 68
Can the US Stop China From Controlling the Next Internet Age? 255
Electron and the Decline of Native Apps 328
Apple Store Employees Aren't Allowed To Say 'Crash', 'Bug', or 'Problem' 308
Elon Musk: Tesla 'Would Be Interested' in Taking Over GM's Closed Factories 145
US Senator Attacks Failure To Crack Down On Google's Ad Fraud Problems 72
YouTube's Top-Earner For 2018 Is a 7-Year-Old 78
Is Visual Basic .NET More Popular Than JavaScript? 100
12,000 Uber Drivers Claim Uber Is Now Failing To Pay Arbitration Fees 83
Amazon Targets Airports For Checkout-Free Store Expansion 66
Huawei's CFO Is Being Accused of Fraud, and Her Main Defense Is a PowerPoint 121
'Send Noncompete Agreements Back To the Middle Ages' 83
After 23 Years, IBM Sells Off Lotus Notes 105
The FTC's Top Consumer Protection Official Can't Go After Facebook -- or 100 Other Companies 75
Your Apple Products Are Getting More Expensive. Here's How They Get Away With It. 410
Aston Martin Will Make Old Cars Electric So They Don't Get Banned From Cities 143
Google, Mozilla, and Opera React To Microsoft's Embrace of Chromium 186
China Calls For Release of Arrested Huawei CFO Detained In Canada 200
Intel Optimistic About Its Next-Gen 7nm Process Technology 114
Microsoft Is Embracing Chromium, Bringing Edge To Windows 7, Windows 8, and Mac 139
Microsoft's Designers Are Now Working Together on the Future of Windows, Office and Surface 115
Canada Arrests Top Huawei Executive For Allegedly Violating Iran Sanctions 163
Facebook Used Its VPN App To Track Competitors, Documents Reveal 48
Americans Are Moving Less Than Ever, and It's Bad For the Economy 346
We're No Longer in Smartphone Plateau. We're in the Smartphone Decline. 205
Samsung Caught (Again) Using DSLR Photo To Advertise Smartphone Camera 60
Google's 'Shadow Workforce' of Contractors Demands Higher Wages, Equal Benefits in a Letter To CEO Sundar Pichai 104
Amazon Promised Drone Delivery In Five Years Five Years Ago 131
Researchers Discover SplitSpectre, a New Spectre-like CPU Attack 48
NYC Votes To Set Minimum Pay For Uber, Lyft Drivers 134
China Announces Punishments For Intellectual-Property Theft 67
Hulu, AT&T To Test 'Pause Ads' In 2019, Automatically Playing Commercials When You Hit Pause 188
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1 For Windows and Mac; Open-Sources WPF, Forms and WinUI 72
Microsoft is Working On a New Iteration of Windows To Take On ChromeOS, Report Says 161
'YouTube Music is a Bad Product in Desperate Need of Improvement Before Anyone Will Care To Use It' 72
Microsoft is Building a Chromium-powered Web Browser That Will Replace Edge on Windows 10: Report 377
Will AWS Be Spun Off Into a Separate Company? 84
Facebook Employees Are Calling Former Colleagues To Look For Jobs Outside the Company and Asking About the Best Way To Leave 114
Microsoft Adds Real-Time Captions and Subtitles To Skype -- PowerPoint To Follow 53
Twitter User Hacks 50,000 Printers To Tell People To Subscribe To a YouTube Channel 94
The Latest Crop of Instagram Influencers? Medical Students. 48
Amazon Tests Its Cashierless Technology for Bigger Stores 25
Intel Sues Ex-Engineer For Trying To Steal 3D XPoint Technology On His Way To Micron 33
Intel Discloses Its Forthcoming Discrete GPU Strategy and Design Efforts (hothardware.com) 92
Richard Branson Says He's Going to Send People Into Space by Christmas 89
Trump Agrees Not To Raise Tariff Levels on Chinese Goods; China Agrees To US Purchases. Two Sides To Start Broader Negotiations. 322
Lenovo Finally Pays $7.3 M Fine Over Invasive 2014 'Superfish' Adware Pre-Installations 79
More Than 40 Percent of World Coal Plants Are Unprofitable, Says Report 281
DHL To Invest $300 Million To Quadruple Robots In Warehouses In 2019 23
Airbnb Will Start Designing Houses In 2019 30
Facebook Discussed Using People's Data As a Bargaining Chip, Emails and Court Filings Suggest 30
Trump Admin Takes First Steps To Overhaul H-1B Visa That Tech Companies Use To Hire Internationally 252
Does Google Harm Local Search Rivals? EU Antitrust Regulators Ask 61
Companies 'Can Sack Workers For Refusing To Use Fingerprint Scanners' 145
NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants 636
Intel Publishes Its First Modern Windows Driver for PCs 78
After Microsoft Complaints, Indian Police Arrest Tech Support Scammers At 26 Call Centers 77
'The Supremacy of Japanese Cars Has Been 40-Plus Years In the Making' 293
Microsoft Wins $480 Million Military Contract To Bring HoloLens To Battlefield 59
Microsoft's Surface Roadmap Reportedly Includes Ambient Computing and a Modular All-in-One PC 41
That Virus Alert on Your Computer? Scammers in India May Be Behind It 98
New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive 58
Amazon Is Launching Pay-As-You-Go Cloud Computing In Space 30
IBM Aims To Meld AI With Human Resources With Watson Suite 74
Amazon Will Be Off All Oracle Databases By End of 2019, Says AWS Chief 61
Dell Says It Detected A Security Breach Earlier This Month, But Financial Data Was Not Exposed 17
Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements 205
Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit 277
The FTC Says It Will Investigate Loot Boxes 153
Amazon Enters Blockchain Market With Cloud-Computing Services 34
Microsoft's Stock Market Value Pulls Ahead of Apple's 119
Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers To Predict Their Futures 58
TSMC, a Company Few Americans Know, is About To Dethrone Intel 195
Real Life Ads Are Taking Scary Inspiration From Social Media 73
Lowe's To Sell Off Its 'Under-Performing' Iris Smart Home Automation Business 119
Uber Fined Nearly $1.2 Million By Dutch, UK Over 2016 Data Breach 30
YouTube To Make New Originals Available For Free, Ad-Supported Viewing 63
YouTube Will Remove All Pop-up Annotations on January 15 91
Microsoft's Multi-Factor Authentication Service Goes Down For Second Week in a Row 101
'General Motors, Sears and Toys R Us: Layoffs Across America Highlight Our Shredding Financial Safety Net' 554
Google Workers Sign Letter Seeking End To China Search Project 54
Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low 673
Google Is Being Vague With Disclosure In Early Real-World Duplex Calls 71
IBM CEO Joins Apple In Blasting Data use By Silicon Valley Firms 63
GM To Idle Five Factories In North America, Cut More Than 14,000 Jobs As It Focuses On Autonomous, Electric Vehicles 379
Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 Apps In General 200
The People of Ohio Can Now Pay Their Taxes in Bitcoin 149
US Top Court Leans Toward Allowing Apple App Store Antitrust Suit 163
YouTube To Make New Originals Available for Free, Ad-Supported Viewing With 'Single Slate' Strategy 9
Airlines Face Crack Down on Use of 'Exploitative' Algorithm That Splits Up Families on Flights 223
AI Mistakes Ad On a Bus For an Actual CEO, Then Publicly Shames Them For 'Jaywalking' 154
That Time The Windows Kernel Fought Gamma Rays Corrupting Its Processor Cache 166
Two Linux Kernels Revert Performance-Killing Spectre Patches 103
What's the Next Big Thing in Tech? It's Up To Us 87
How A Mysterious Tech Billionaire Created Two Fortunes -- And a Global Software Sweatshop 192
Microsoft Briefly Overtakes Apple as Most Valuable US Company 54
Your Credit Score Isn't a Reflection of Your Moral Character. But the Department of Homeland Security Seems To Think It Is. 336
French Tobacco Shops Will Sell Bitcoin and Ethereum Starting January 2019 121
Influencers Are Being Paid Big Sums To Pitch Products and Thrash Rivals on Instagram and YouTube 124
Amazon Workers in Europe Stage 'We Are Not Robots' Protests on One of Its Busiest Shopping Days 225
High Score, Low Pay: Why the Gig Economy Loves Gamification 134
YouTube is Testing Having Two Skippable Ads Back-To-Back 181
Thanksgiving E-commerce Spend To Top $3.5B, Mobile Accounting For One-Third of Sales 27
In an Open Letter To EU's Competition Commissioner, 14 European Shopping Comparison Services Say Google is Not Making the Search For Products Fairer 113
New Web App Uses Machine Learning To Analyze, Repair Your Technical Resume 48
Nearby Star Is Sun's Long-Lost Sibling 95
Apple iPhone Supplier Foxconn Planning Deep Cost Cuts 85
Some Amazon Employees Bought NYC Condos Before News of HQ2 Location Emerged, Says WSJ Report 94
Microsoft, Google and Qualcomm Working On Chrome For Windows On ARM 53
Gap Looking To Close Hundreds of Stores at Malls 'Quickly and Aggressively' 102
The 'Neo-Banks' Are Finally Having Their Moment 121
IBM: Chip Making is Hitting Its Limits, But Our Techniques Could Solve That 50
Court Again Rules That Cable Giants Can't Weaponize the First Amendment 152
Ford Eyes Use of Customers' Personal Data To Boost Profits 79
Democrats Intend To Probe Ivanka Trump's Use of Personal Email In Next Congress 407
Microsoft Now Lets You Log Into Outlook, Skype, Xbox Live With No Password 60
Microsoft Pulls Some Non-Security Updates For Microsoft Office 2010, 2013 and 2016 That It Released Earlier This Month 58
Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds 354
Ivanka Trump Used Personal Account For Emails About Government Business 498
Southeast Asia's Digital Economy To Triple To $240 Billion By 2025, Says Google Report 26
NASA Considers Selling Seats on the Spacecraft Used For International Space Station 75
Why Some Open-Source Companies Are Considering a More Closed Approach 144
Office 365 Users in Europe, Asia, and Americas Who Have Enabled Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Are Impacted by an Outage 72
Apple CEO Explains How a Few Billion Dollars From Google Changes His Views on the Company's 'Unsettling' User Data Mining Activities 112
GitLab's Secret To Success? All Its 350 Employees Work Remotely 106
'Windows Isn't a Service, It's an Operating System' 445
More Companies Plan To Implant Microchips Into Their Employees' Hands 337
Antares Successfully Launches ISS Re-Supply Cargo Ship 40
YouTube Now Streams Free Ad-Supported Movies -- Including 'The Terminator' and 'Hackers' 86
The Boring Company's First Tunnel Is All Dug Up 187
Virginia To Produce 25K-35K Additional CS Grads As Part of Amazon HQ2 Deal 165
BlackBerry Buys Cybersecurity Firm Cylance For $1.4 Billion 34
Dutch Government Report Says Microsoft Office Telemetry Collection Breaks EU GDPR Laws 87
Cheaper, Disc-Free Xbox One Coming Next Year, Report Says 75
Google Cloud Executive Who Sought Pentagon Contract Steps Down 82
Linux 4.20 is Running Slower Than 4.19 On Intel CPUs 137
Microsoft is Testing Ads in Mail App For Windows 10 in Select Markets 150
Microsoft Store Starts Accepting Windows 10 on ARM Apps 35
PlayStation Begins Collecting Amusement Tax From Chicago Users 165
Jeff Bezos To Employees: 'One Day, Amazon Will Fail' But Our Job is To Delay it as Long as Possible 129
Remote Workers Can Get a Cushy Apartment, Free Office Space, and $10K If They Move To Tulsa 190
Google Is Closing Its Schaft Robotics Unit 77
Senators Ask Four Major Carriers About Video Slowdowns 108
YouTube King PewDiePie Surrenders Crown To Indian Record Label T-Series 92
Mark Zuckerberg 'Not Able' To Attend International Disinformation Hearing 80
Comcast Forced To Refund $700,000 To Customers Over Misleading Fees 87
Bitcoin Plummets Under $6,000 To a New Low For the Year 132
New Yorkers Protest Amazon HQ2: 'We Should Be Investing in Housing ... Not in Helicopters' 199
Researchers Discover Seven New Meltdown and Spectre Attacks 98
'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' 337
Nigerian Firm Takes Blame For Routing Google Traffic Through China 56

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