Apple likely sold 51 million iPhones in three months, and that’s a bad thing. As part of its latest earnings report Tuesday, the device maker expects to post its first-ever decline in iPhone sales since first introducing the blockbuster smartphone in 2007. With that one device accounting for more than two-thirds of its sales, any …

For budding novelists looking to stand out, the website PaidBookReviews.org offers a package of 100 book reviews on Amazon for the low price of $2,200. The website was one of five sites Amazon sued Friday in Washington state court, part of the online retailer’s year-long campaign to snuff out networks of fake reviews on its site. The company has filed …

Comcast and its Xfinity cable service are looking to make it easier for customers to watch cable without a set-top box. Yet the timing of the change is just a tad questionable, coming soon after the Federal Communications Commission said it wants to open up the set-top box market and free folks from monthly payments for a cable box. Also …

Intel, the biggest chipmaker in the world, said it will lay off up to 12,000 people as it responds to years of flagging PC sales. We talk about what Intel can do to right the ship in a world gone mobile. We also hit on growing pains and glitches in the smart home and texting emojis for porn. The 3:59 …

New TV technologies — 3D, 4K, curved screens — have mostly failed to excite consumers, but a new concept called HDR has a chance to offer something noticeably better than the ubiquitous high-definition TV. In this latest installment of The 3:59, we focus solely on the subject of HDR, with TV reviewer David Katzmaier offering up a quick version of …

Wayfair has turned itself into a go-to place to buy big and bulky home furnishings online. But, what if you don’t know how to install that remote-controlled ceiling fan or put together that 60-inch double bathroom vanity piece? Hoping to make it easier for folks to do home renovations using the Web, the Boston e-commerce company on Tuesday teamed up …

There goes the streaming neighborhood. After years of Amazon Prime Video being hidden within the broader Prime service for $99 a year, the e-commerce company finally made the streaming-video service a standalone option. That could spell trouble for streaming-video leader Netflix. We also talk about Apple apparently stopping support of its Quicktime video player on Windows and the science of …

Amazon Prime Video is getting its own stage. The online retailer’s streaming video service is now available as a standalone option for the first time. The company is letting fans in the US binge on Amazon original shows like “Mozart in the Jungle” and “The New Yorker Presents” for $8.99 a month after a 30-day free trial. There are even …

In the immaculately appointed Club Room at the upper-crust Soho Grand Hotel in Manhattan, the luxury clothing e-retailer Moda Operandi was holding the first trunk show of its kind. There, amid the brown leather couches and low-lit Edison bulb chandeliers, the small boutique seller presented cotton wrap tops and ruffle trench coats from the brand Tome with a little help …

With a host of new players in the online groceries game, Walmart will need to speed up its services if it wants to keep up with the Internet. To that end, the big-box retailer said Wednesday it will introduce its grocery drive-up service to eight more US markets this month: Kansas City; Boise, Idaho; Richmond and Virginia Beach, Virginia; Austin, …