By MIKE ISAAC and DAVID GELLES
Yancey Strickler and Perry Chen, the crowdfunding site’s co-founders, announce that their company is reincorporating as a “public benefit corporation.”
Published: September 20, 2015 at 07:00PM
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Phone lease programs are all the rage in the US market nowadays, with every major carrier offering its own version of the leasing program. Now it looks like Samsung may get in on the action, too.
Samsung is prepping a leasing program for its Galaxy phones in the US, says an “industry executive with knowledge of Samsung’s plans” speaking to Forbes. Details on the program are scarce, but the program will reportedly be similar to Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program, which offers unlocked versions of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus that can be used with any US carrier. After one year, the customer can trade in their iPhone for a new model.
Samsung’s Galaxy leasing program is allegedly set to launch sometime in the coming months, though it’s said that Samsung could push its debut up.
While there are already Samsung Galaxy phones and leasing programs available on AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon, Samsung’s own offering might be more attractive to some folks if it is indeed like Apple’s leasing program. For example, Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program offers unlocked phones and insurance. What will be interesting is seeing what the phones included with Samsung’s program look like. Some of Samsung’s Galaxy phones have carrier-branded hardware, preinstalled carrier apps, or both, so it’s unclear how that’ll be handled in a leasing program.
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As part of Square Enix’s update on Final Fantasy XV at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, they finally revealed that the final game would feature Chocobos as well as allow players to go fishing.
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‘Fear The Walking Dead’ starts to find its feet in Sunday night’s episode.
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By KATIE BENNER
Security researchers said hackers took advantage of the fact that many Chinese developers use copies of code that are held on Chinese servers, resulting in a malicious version of Xcode.
Published: September 20, 2015 at 07:00PM
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Older people in the United States think of Taiwan as a place that makes toys for the world. Younger ones associate made-in-Taiwan with their electronic devices, including Apple products designed in Silicon Valley. Either way, the west Pacific island with factories along its much of its west coast has depended on exports for decades. But export orders were down from 5% or more each month from May to July compared to the same months of 2014, an unusual rout. Demand from No. 1 market China is waning with its economic growth. Made-in-China, even designed-in-China, has coincidentally taken over much of what Taiwan can ship to anywhere in the world. In the United States, the No. 2 Taiwan export market, consumers show signs of cooling their purchases of simple tech hardware.
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If the latest AWS outage changes anything in your approach to cloud adoption, then you’re doing it wrong.
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The iPhone is designed to be strong and protect the delicate electronics inside the chassis, but that never stops some people wanting a little bit more. Sometimes it’s for peace of mind, other times it is because of the environment that the smartphone will be taken into. If you need your smartphone to go underwater, to be ready to tack some hefty knocks, and to keep on working, then here’s the case for your iPhone.
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