iOS

As fast as fast food can be, companies and customers want it faster. Many restaurants boast quick service, but also long lines at rush hour times. To combat this, several companies have started to offer customers the ability to order and even pay ahead through an app so they don't have to...

Can an app change the way individuals invest? Walter Cruttenden, co-founder of Acorns, is on a mission to find out. "We just want to enjoy our lives and change the world," Cruttenden, a serial entrepreneur, told Benzinga. He set out to achieve this goal after his son, co-founder...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is often in the spotlight, especially when the company is getting ready to launch a new iPhone. Recently the company has made headlines for a much less positive reason: numerous celebrity accounts were hacked. After investigating the situation, Apple determined that...

Is privacy dead? Security experts Michael Gregg and Kevin Blackman examine the many ways in which apps and services can promote your private information. 1. Some Apps Store Personal Data In Clear Text Gregg, the founder and CEO of Superior Solutions, wants everyone to remember what happened...

For years, rows of folders filled with patient medical records have been a familiar sight in doctor’s offices, hospitals and clinics. Some major tech players, however, are trying to change that scenario. Medical professionals face a growing need to be able to quickly and safely share...

News of the recent partnership between European drugmaker Novartis (NYSE: NVS) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) to develop a contact lens designed to monitor blood sugar levels in diabetics has drawn attention to several other new diabetes treatment developments. Information Week...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), according to The Verge, may be ready to beta test a new version of Office, this one for Android tablets. Sources told The Verge that Microsoft was preparing a private beta test for the Office for Android tablet version and that the company was accepting participants...

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has 1.2 billion users worldwide. It would like to have about 6.2 billion. In order to pick up the missing five billion users, many of whom reside in emerging markets, the social media giant sent a team of engineers to Africa to do some testing. In a blog...

The speculation can stop. Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Prime Music streaming service has launched. The service is available at no additional charge to Amazon Prime members who pay $99 a year for unlimited two-day shopping, streaming videos and digital books from an in-house lending library...

Dropbox, the startup that won’t stop, has acquired another startup called Droptalk according to TechCrunch. Droptalk developed a tool, available so far only in limited beta, that allows users to share links privately with friends via a Chrome extension. The plan was to offer iOS and...

Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) new 4.0 version of its iOS search app now comes with a number of new features, according to 9to5 Mac. For starters, the app recognizes voice search “cues” and can participate in conversational input similar to the way Apple's Siri works. One example regarding version 4...

According to 9to5 Mac, Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) upcoming iOS 8 will offer split-screen multitasking similar to that on Microsoft's Surface tablet series. Sources told the website the feature would allow users to run and interact with two iPad applications at once, including the ability to drag...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), continuing to see “the writing on the wall” released its Mohoro Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Monday. Known officially as Azure RemoteApp, the service allows users to run Windows Server applications on a variety of devices. The remote desktop client that accompanies...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will reportedly buy Beats for $3.2 billion as early as next week according to the Financial Times. The big question is why? The answer, Re/Code said, comes in two-parts - headphones and streaming. For $3.2 billion, more than Apple has paid for any acquisition, the company...

Saying Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was too rooted in hardware at the expense of data and the cloud, Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures predicted Monday that the company wouldn’t even be in the top three tech companies by 2020, according to TechCrunch. Wilson spoke at the TechCrunch Disrupt...