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eBay Has A Problem: It's About To Lose Its Biggest Business
In results announced today, the company’s PayPal unit, which includes Venmo, reported larger revenues than the core auctions business, for the first time in eBay’s history. Matt Cardy / Getty Images...
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Uber And Lyft Get Green Light In Portland
The ride-hailing services win the right to operate in Oregon’s largest city — temporarily. Uber After months of legal wrangling, Uber and Lyft have negotiated a deal to operate in a city that's proven...
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Facebook Isn't An App, It's A Colossal Social Conglomerate
The company is getting huge in areas outside its core social network. Each day its apps are responsible for 45 billion messages, and 4 billion video views. Facebook is a social network. And a...
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Facebook Just Released A Phonebook
Hello adds social network context to incoming phone calls. What an incoming call looks like with Hello installed Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed Facebook unveiled another standalone app on Wednesday, the...
View ArticleTwitter Introduces "Highlights" So You Won't Miss Anything On Twitter
The best-of analyzes user accounts to create a custom summary of the most important tweets. Today, Twitter rolled out Highlights, a feature that presents Android users with a twice-daily summary of...
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Comcast Could Drop Bid For Time Warner Merger
Amid regulatory scrutiny, Comcast reconsiders its proposed $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable. Gene J. Puskar / AP Comcast is is poised to abandon its $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable,...
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Neil From Time Warner Cable Customer Service Thinks The Merger Is Dead
With reports that the Comcast merger is dead, we went straight to the source for comment: customer service. We’re still waiting on a straight answer, and might have to be put through to a different...
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Amazon Finally Reveals The Size Of Its Massive Cloud Computing Business
“Amazon Web Services is a $5 billion business and still growing fast — in fact it’s accelerating.” Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Sajjad Hussain / Getty Images The public finally knows a...
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26 Essential Apple Watch Tips And Tricks
A guide to the smartwatch’s swipes, taps, and touches. Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed Tapping the digital crown for home screen Basically, it's your new home button. Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed Force Touch vs....
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12 Celebrities And Rich People Who Got Their Apple Watch Before You
All Apple customers are created equal. But some are more equal than others. Bob Iger, chief executive officer of Disney Steve Jobs' widow Laurene Powell Jobs is Disney's largest shareholder and Iger...
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The Funniest Thing On Google Maps Is This Android Bot Peeing On An Apple Logo
Apple loyalists will be pretty “pissed” about this. UPDATE: This has since been removed and was not the work of a Google employee. But it’s still hilarious. It is a well-known fact that Android vs...
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My Problem With The Passwords
One woman’s struggle with the day to day grind of extreme cryptography. Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed It is 8:46 in the morning and I have already created two new passwords. I like to think of myself as your...
View ArticlePeople In Nepal Are Letting Their Loved Ones Know They Are Safe Using Facebook
Facebook introduced its “Safety Check” feature last October. In a press release, Facebook said its engineers in Japan began working on the project after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the country....
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You Can Now Hashtag Emojis On Instagram
New filters, too. #smilingpileofpoop Starting today, you can hashtag emojis in Instagram captions. Instagram Instagram told BuzzFeed Life that the top three most-used emojis were ?, ?, and ?,...
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Here Are The On-Demand Companies Getting Rid Of Contract Labor — And Why
Even as lawsuits threaten the contract-based employment model of companies like Uber, cheap freelance labor is the norm in the industry. But a few companies argue that paying employees well isn’t just...
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Facebook Messenger Now Includes Video Calling
The social network hopes to transform Messenger into a world-class standalone app. Facebook Onstage at Facebook's annual F8 conference back in March, CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledged to transform the...
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Why Eggplant Is The One Emoji Instagram Won't Let You Search
#FREETHEEGGPLANT Instagram just announced that you can hashtag and search by emoji. Great! Cool! It turns out people have already been doing this, so there's photos for every emoji, even the...
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Apple's Latest Results Show China On The Rise And iPad In Decline
In the first three months of 2015, the company sold more than 61 million iPhones and pulled in almost $17 billion in revenue from the Greater China region alone. And its profit of $13.6 billion was up...
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Best Buy Will Accept Apple Pay, First Defector From Rival Payments Alliance
The electronics retailer gave a major boost to Apple’s mobile payments system, even though it’s a founding member of a competing payments alliance. Rob Carr / Getty Images Best Buy said today that it...
View ArticleNow PayPal Users Can Buy Things With One Click On The Web
One Touch furthers the payment giant’s efforts to streamline digital checkouts. youtube.com For years, the rigamarole required to buy things over the web has involved, at the very least, a password....
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