Candace Payne, the Texas mom who put on a Chewbacca mask and brought joy to herself and the Internet this week, has far and away eclipsed the record for Facebook Live video views with 117 million and...
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Fighting traffic tickets: Seattle startup’s ‘Off the Record’ app boasts 97% success rate
Alex Guirguis has gotten...
Amazon’s cloud computing cash cow: AWS, now a $10B business, fuels record quarter for company
Amazon is happy about its cloud computing business, and so are investors.
The Seattle-based company crushed analyst expectations for its Q1 2016 earnings on Thursday, as the company’s stock spiked more than 12 percent in after-hours trading.
Wall Street expected Amazon to post earnings per share of...
Microsoft employees break Guinness record for most people filling out a bracket together
iPhone sales level off, Apple misses revenue estimates despite record quarter
Apple sold 74.78 million iPhones in the holiday quarter, up just slightly from the 74.47 million sold by the company a year earlier. The result avoids the iPhone’s first ever year-over-year decline in unit sales, but raises questions about the future growth potential for the...
Xbox One, Playstation 4 U.S. sales reach record highs as Sony ousts Microsoft in December
U.S. sales of the Xbox One and Playstation 4 hit record-highs last month. The NPD Group reported its monthly console sales data today and noted that December marked the best month to date for PS4 and Xbox One unit sales in the U.S. Both Microsoft and Sony...
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ fastest movie to make $1 billion in record 12 days
The new Star Wars film continues to break records and on Sunday it became the fastest movie to reach $ 1 billion in box office sales after just 12 days in...
LifeLock will pay a record $100M to settle FTC allegations it didn’t protect customer data
As one of the first journalists to write about the identity theft phenomenon more than a decade ago, people often ask me if I think LifeLock is worth it. I’ve never been a fan of the company, which began its uneasy existence with...
How tax automation startup Avalara recovered from its Black Friday blip and posted record numbers
For many employees in America, Thanksgiving weekend was a time for relaxation, a chance to take a brief break from work. This year, though, that wasn’t so much the case for engineers at Avalara. During the midst of what it calls the “Super Bowl of online shopping,” the Seattle tax automation startup suffered technical problems this past Friday that forced some retailers...
‘Star Wars’ breaks record with advance ticket sales, on track to be highest-grossing film ever
It’s probably not too surprising that Star Wars: The Force Awakens has already set a new record for advance ticket sales, putting it well into contention to become the highest-grossing movie ever. Those are the early numbers being reported, according to the Wall Street Journal. “Most movies would be lucky to open to $ 50 million....