Apple used an impressively complex network subsidiaries to avoid paying billions of taxes in a scheme that will pit the company against congressional investigators on Tuesday.
After almost four years of guiding controversial decisions on fracking, the Keystone XL pipeline, and coal, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is stepping down. Now, the hunt is on for a new director who won't be able to please anyone.
If the latest rumors are true, Apple's made-in-America shift will be an extremely experimental, low-cost operation — and if you look at the supply chain, that may point to more of a symbolic gesture than a genuine engine of job creation.
Jonathan Cohn on Starbucks and the fiscal cliff, Jacob Sullum on Adam Lanza and mental health, James Bessel on Chuck Hagel and Israel, Leonid Bershidsky on the new cold war, and William H. Janeway on American-made startups.
After collecting the largest paycheck of any American CEO, Cook 2012's salary topped out at just $4.2 million in Apple's first year without Steve Jobs — still not exactly the Jobsian dollar-a-year policy, especially since it's more than it seems.
The New York Times took a victory lap of sorts, when it published the latest installment of its iEconomy series explaining how Foxconn changed after global outrage over working conditions.
Maybe you got a new smartphone or tablet for Christmas, or maybe you're just re-stocking your device. Either way, these are the new essentials for your iPad, Android device, and, in all cases, your iPhone.
Discovered: children from poor families are getting less obese; a supervirus may lead the UK to cry over its milk; chicken farmers swap oregano for antibiotics; ultramassive black holes are unfathomably huge.
You were mad enough when you thought Instagram was going to use your photos for ads, so it stands to reason that you might be a little ticked Instagram used them for a year-end roundup, right?
The tech turf wars are raging on, and there is one notable giant largely missing from battle, report The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. So Microsoft lost 2012. But what about next year?
Mark's sister got a little sensitive last night over a photo of the Zuckerberg clan celebrating the holidays — the public outing of which may say as much about Facebook as it does about its first family.
There's something about this Bushmaster AR-15: Both Adam Lanza and William Spangler, the two gunmen in the Newtown and Firefighter shootings, respectively, got their hands on the exact same make of semi-automatic, the .223 caliber rifle.
The service is now back after going down last night, during arguably one of the worst possible times ever, when many people stuck at home with their families would hope to seek a little refuge in some streaming movies.
During his annual Christmas address at the Vatican this year, the Pope prayed for peace in Syria, something that doesn't look likely any time soon.
For Instagram, there's good news and there's bad news about the class action lawsuit just filed against them. Bad news first: Somebody just filed a lawsuit. Good news: Facebook's lawyers have plenty of practice getting rid of these.
On Sunday morning, Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, told the world that armed guards stopped school shootings in Israel. Israel begs to differ.
Now that it's been over a year since the Occupy movement swept across the country, FOIA requests are being fulfilled, revealing uncomfortable details about how authorities viewed the protestors.
Mark Zuckerberg usually leaves the coding to the plebes. He's a CEO now, b- you know the rest. Anyway, he's CEO now. But it turns out he put some very personal touches on Facebook's new Poke app, his company's answer to Snapchat.
Youtube released its view counts earlier this week for its biggest channels, and people who watch these things noticed that some major record companies had their numbers drop by a whopping 2 billion views. So, where the heck did they all go?
Discovered: the new secret of mistletoe; it's actually the lack of thought that counts; why holiday shoppers are so rude; miracle at Christmas market.
Friday afternoon Facebook released its iPhone app for the incredible vanishing half-message — because that is apparently what the kids like sending these days, if SnapChat's huge, sexy success is any indication.
Apple's new iOS update has users complaining that their iPhones are losing power faster than ever. Thanks to some help from the Apple forums, here are three (and a half) quick tips on making your phone live longer with iOS 6.0.2.
Even though Instagram has both apologized and now walked back its terms of service, the mutiny over the photo-sharing app has given its once universally loyal users a preview of a tech universe very much prioritizing money over user experience.
Remember when tech companies changed things and didn't listen to all of the people complaining about it? Those days are long gone, apparently. Instagram is reverting back to their old Terms of Service, the company announced in a blog post Thursday evening.
Discovered: Singapore is home to the least positive people on Earth; megapiranhas could swallow a turtle; the human hand has evolved to punch things; bats fly above virus vulnerability.
The Times debuted a multimedia feature Thursday so beautiful it has a lot of people wondering if the mainstream media is about to forgo words and pictures for a whole lot more, or at least a new Times redesign. We spoke to the designers behind "Snow Fall."
There was one piece of legislation introduced on the Senate floor yesterday in response to the Newtown shootings. It came ahead of any of the legislation from Sen. Dianne Feinstein or Vice President Biden's new commission. It was about video games. Why?
Now comes word, by way of an announcement buried deep inside the social network, that your Messages inbox will be monetized, whether you like it or not.
Tom Anderson gets nasty on Twitter... to prove a point about nastiness on Twitter. A blow-by-blow scorecard.
Subtle tweaks will arrive on your screen, helping you block people and de-tag ugly photos — but you've got to have a keen eye to discover when they're really affecting your profile.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Mark Zuckerberg's been eager to find a way to get more kids on Facebook for years, and on Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission handed it to him on a platter.
Discovered: Once Earth's ruined we should hightail it for the Tau Ceti system; how reindeers get red noses; one in two men will get cancer; what flying squirrels have in common with Top Gun.
There are two Santa trackers in town — er, space — this Christmas: the trusty ole eyes at NORAD and Google's new version, the simultaneous existence of which could lead to some very confused children next Monday night.
New survey data finds a notable decrease in public perception of McAfee, the company founded but no longer overseen by the renegade tech guru, between his first run-in with the law and the madness that's ensued in the month since.
If the iCard existed, Apple would market it exactly like this fake mock-up from Credit Card Compare that's getting passed around today. Maybe.
The tweet in question included a photo that Twitter has since taken down of or about the spokesperson for Westboro Baptist Church, whose account Anonymous hacked in response to Westboro protesting funerals for the victims in Newtown.
In a move to protest Instagram's new vision for its lucrative future, many of its most loyal users have suspended or deleted their accounts. So have some of its best.
Users spotted this last weekend, but Twitter has made it official in a blog post today: you can download all your tweets, from forever.
Online retailers that for years have championed e-commerce over brick-and-mortar are now opting to build their stores as well. But what does that mean for actual last-minute holiday shopping?
Discovered: Data shows Sandy's online outage toll; what MRIs can tell us about freestyle rap; spiders confuse predators with doppelgänger decoys; thoughtful orangutans.
The backlash to Instagram's new Terms of Service agreement that suggested it might sell its users' photos as ads without compensation has forced the company to take a big — if not complete — step back with a statement released Tuesday.
Now that Instagram has suddenly angered so many of its millions of loyal users with a sneaky terms of service change, Yahoo's Flickr app for iPhone actually has a chance to win over legions of new photo sharers. Herein, a comparison test.
This most annoying addition, which will allow advertisers a chance to slap unsolicited videos all over the Facebook news feed, is expected to launch by April 2013, sources say.
In an extended Facebook note posted overnight — her longest since the election — Sarah Palin weighed in on the Newtown shootings with an emotional but loaded plea to stop listening to pundits not that unlike herself.
When they complain that their days are too short, they really mean that the pay at the notorious Chinese electronics manufacturer is still too low.
Discovered: We're one step closer to soap-fueled vehicles; a protein that may stave off aging; toxic tides could be claiming thousands of squid lives; pacemakers built from viruses.
Christopher Chaney, the man whose rudimentary hacking led to the release of naked photos of Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, and Christina Aguilera, as well as the private information of 50 others, was sentenced to a fraction of his possible time.
If you're one of those in a rising tide of worrywarts — and a growing number of the recently unemployed — who agree that mass-email functionality can lead to more accidental anxiety than everyday utility, then, well, yeah, sure.
Instagram updated its privacy policy Monday morning in a move designed to make its Facebook partnership all the more official and, more importantly, to prepare itself for all the advertisements inevitably making their way to the app.
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