Apple developers who make apps for the iPhone and iPad earned 30% more in 2017 than a year earlier, though it was still a slowdown from growth in 2016. Developers who make apps for iOS earned US$26.5bn in 2017, Apple said
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave cryptocurrency enthusiasts a little optimism for the new year. Zuckerberg referenced cryptocurrencies in a posting Thursday in which he laid out how he will spend 2018 trying to correct persistent
China plans to limit power use by some bitcoin miners, people familiar with the matter said, a potential challenge to an industry whose energy-intensive computer networks enable transactions in the cryptocurrency. The People’s Bank
Intel said on Wednesday that most of the processors running the world’s computers and smartphones have a feature that makes them susceptible to attack. The largest chip maker is working with rivals and partners on a fix, but
Intel has confirmed a report saying that its chips contain a feature that makes them vulnerable to hacking, though it said other companies’ semiconductors are also susceptible. Intel is working with chip makers including AMD and
AMD is the sad sack of semiconductor makers. A security hole in its biggest rival’s computer chips gives it a small opening to change its fortunes. The bad news for Intel was a report that a design flaw in its widely used computer chips
A report that Intel chips are vulnerable to hackers raised concerns about the company’s main products and brand. On Tuesday, the technology website The Register said a bug lets some software gain access to parts of a
The music executives hobnobbing with Ed Sheeran and Selena Gomez at an industry party one recent November night knew the enemy was in their midst. Susan Wojcicki runs YouTube, the site that’s let millions of fans listen to their
Apple’s offer to replace iPhone batteries cheaply may cut sales of new handsets by millions of units this year, according to Barclays analyst Mark Moskowitz. The Cupertino, California-based company recently said it intentionally
BlackBerry’s efforts to push into self-driving cars took a new step forward as the former smartphone maker signed a deal with Chinese Internet giant Baidu to work together on automotive software. Baidu will bundle BlackBerry’s QNX