Think of it, writes Kara Swisher, as the price Facebook must pay for not having a mobile OS.
FORTUNE -- Judging from the sheer volume of commentary generated by Facebook's (FB) $19 billion offer for WhatsApp, it seems everybody in the tech world is having a hard time swallowing the sticker price, even if most of it comes in the form of Facebook shares that may or may not be overvalued.
$19 billion puts MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 20, 2014 10:51 AM ET
A traffic reporter has posted the first image of demolition at the site of Apple's new HQ.
FORTUNE -- Ron Cervi, a news and traffic reporter for KCBS, was flying over Cupertino Monday when he snapped this aerial photo. Posted on Instagram, it's a "before" picture to go with the "after" rendering (below) that Apple (AAPL) commissioned.
In Steve Jobs' final public appearance -- his 2011 presentation to a starstruck Cupertino city MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 20, 2014 7:02 AM ET
The iBillionaire fund mirrors the strategies of Wall Street's top investors and hedge funds.
FORTUNE -- There are a million ways to try to beat the market, and the one iBillionaire has chosen is as good as any, I suppose.
What started as an iOS app (iBillionaire) and website (iBillionaire.me) morphed at the end of October into an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that offers investors a portfolio of 30 stocks selected to mirror the investment MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 19, 2014 4:34 PM ET
Apple is "the best-looking girl at the party, forced to wear a bag over her head."
FORTUNE -- Unveiled by Steve Jobs in June 2010 with a promise of new generation of low-cost mobile ads that not only didn't "suck" but would have users coming back for more, the iAd platform was supposed to be Apple's (AAPL) answer to Google's (GOOG) AdMob.
But advertisers didn't exactly fall over themselves to fork over the minimum $1 MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 19, 2014 7:47 AM ET
The number of Apple shares held by the funds fell 1.7% in Q4 even as their value rose 18%.
FORTUNE -- Want to know what the big hedge funds are up to with Apple (AAPL)?
The only public disclosure they are required to file are the SEC Forms 13F due at the end of each quarter.
The 13Fs for the Q4 2013 came in Friday, and according to Whale Wisdom's Daniel Collins, Apple MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 18, 2014 3:55 PM ET
That's the claim being made for the fingerprint scanner in the upcoming Galaxy S5.
FORTUNE -- Here's the challenge: To be incorporated as part of a regular start-up routine, fingerprint ID systems must be at least as easy and dependable as the pass codes they are meant to replace.
Which is why I finally gave up trying to use Apple's (AAPL) TouchID system on my iPhone 5S.
Not that I'm a good test case. After 64 years of paper cuts, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 18, 2014 11:24 AM ETBased on a real father's quest to link Samsung's chemicals to his daughter's 2007 death.
FORTUNE -- You don't have to understand a word of Korean to know what this movie is about.
"Another Family" was the second-highest-grossing film in South Korea last week, according to the Wall Street Journal, despite relatively narrow distribution in local theaters.
According to the filmmakers, the movie is based on the true story of a working-class family whose MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 17, 2014 1:17 PM ET
The Korean manufacturing giant is taking "a hard-line stance against patent trolls."
FORTUNE -- Given its miserable track record in patent battles with Apple (AAPL), Samsung's legal team must have taken great solace in Dyson Ltd's decision to drop the patent infringement suit it filed against the company in September.
At issue was the steering mechanism in the "Motion Sync" vacuum cleaner that Samsung introduced at a Berlin consumer electronics show last MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 17, 2014 8:28 AM ET
Daniel Eran Dilger rips into lazy journalism on the iOS v. Android beat.
FORTUNE -- If you like your pro-Apple agitprop straight -- right out of the bottle, no ice, no water -- Daniel Eran Dilger is your man.
Dilger, if you're not familiar with the byline, is Apple's (AAPL) fiercest defender at AppleInsider, one of the Internet's most prominent Apple news and rumor websites.
He was on a tear Saturday, ripping into the tech MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 16, 2014 7:12 AM ET
Apple plants its flag in Brazil in advance of the FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
FORTUNE -- Apple's (AAPL) iPhone may be approaching saturation in North America, but Latin America is wide open territory.
Brazil is particularly interesting. It's the largest country on the continent (pop. 200 million) and it's demonstrated an appetite for iPhones despite prices that are the highest in the world. Due to stiff import duties, an unlocked iPhone 5s MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 15, 2014 7:38 PM ET
