Here s what s on the Tuesday menu.
Apple s Jony Ive is named the company s first chief design officer, is handing off day-to-day managerial duties. Ive and Apple CEO Tim Cook say the move is a promotion, but the speculation machine that surrounds all things Apple suspects otherwise.
Twitter is in (stalled) negotiations to buy Flipboard, according to a Recode report.
Charter is buying Time Warner Cable in $55 billion deal.
Nearly half — 3.2 billion — of the world s population will be using the Internet by the end of the year, says report by U.N. body International Telecommunication Union.
Live-streaming app Periscope is now available on Android.
Microsoft s digital assistant Cortana is coming to iPhone and Android.
EMC is buying enterprise cloud company Virtustream for $1.2 billion.
Amazon is now paying taxes in other countries in Europe besides Luxembourg.
Social media apps such as Tinder blamed for a rise in STDs in Rhode Island.
Famous artist is selling, for up to $100,000, giant copies of other people s Instagram photos in a Manhattan Gallery.
Photo: Jony Ive at Apple headquarters in Cupertino on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008. (Maria J. Avila/Mercury News archives)
