REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft thinks it has the one.The company unveiled the Xbox One, an entertainment console that wants to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies, sports and other entertainment. It will go on sale later this year, for an undisclosed price.For the ...
WASHINGTON -- The Senate dragged Apple Inc., the world's most valuable company, into the debate over the U.S. tax code Tuesday, grilling CEO Tim Cook over allegations that its Irish subsidiaries help the company avoid billions in U.S. taxes.Cook said the subsidiaries have nothing to do with ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- After falling woefully out of fashion, Yahoo wants to be cool again while catering to the capitalistic demands of its shareholders. That goal led CEO Marissa Mayer to make a $1.1 billion bet on online blogging forum Tumblr in a risky acquisition that revolves around the vision ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- For Google CEO Larry Page, happiness is a warm computer."Technology should do the hard work so people can get on doing the things that make them happiest in life," Page told a crowd of 6,000 software developers and entrepreneurs who flocked to San Francisco Wednesday for the ...
At the place where motherhood meets entrepreneur and play dates collide with iPads, a new market for parent- and kid-friendly technology is exploding.Family tech -- Web services and applications for parents and kids -- is a new market driven largely by mothers creating technology to solve ...
LOS ANGELES -- Robert Greenberg got tired of hearing from senior engineers that it wasn't possible to build his product idea: a bionic eye that gives sight to the blind."A lot of the folks straight out of school didn't know any better, so I hired them instead," quipped Greenberg, chief ...