Apple earnings preview: iPhone 6 in focus

Apple’s earnings are coming! Apple’s earnings are coming! Here’s what’s being mentioned all over the place as key. The much-anticipated iPhone 6 is even more anticipated. Among the intriguing bits — besides that the phone may have a bigger screen — is that the company ordered 70 million to 80 million units of t ...

Facebook low in customer satisfaction, while Pinterest ranks high, survey says.

Pinterest users have a high rate of customer satisfaction, according to a new survey by an independent research group. Facebook and LinkedIn users? Not so much. Ads and privacy are big concerns cited by Internet users who ranked Facebook and LinkedIn lowest among social media sites, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Inde ...

Quoted: Hillary Clinton on social media’s potential

“Too often, people use it as a weapon instead of an opportunity, and maybe one of the ways we can think together about the next phase of development of social media is a tool of outreach, a tool of reconciliation, a tool of negotiation, and perhaps a tool of resolution.” — Hillary Clinton, during a Q&A session at Twitt ...

Coming soon: Netflix earnings (as in today)

It looks like Wall Street is expecting a good show from Netflix today when the company reports second-quarter earnings after the markets close. Numbers, we’ve got numbers: A Bloomberg survey of analysts expects earnings per share of $1.13 on $1.3 billion in revenue. Last quarter, the company beat expectations as it continued its ...

‘Hack North Korea’ the latest in themed hackathons

Silicon Valley knows how to do hackathons. The Valley’s libertarians and conservatives huddled this weekend at a hackathon in San Francisco, Politico reports. There have been others focused on immigration reform and creating local government apps. But in what may be a first, there will be a two-day “hackathon” next m ...

Clinton going for social media daily double

Hillary Clinton is going for a social-media daily double, later today. While technically she’s just plugging her new book, the former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State has made a series of public appearances recently in which she’s encouraged speculation that she will run for president in 2016. Later today, she’ll be fielding public ...