Jonah Becker has left HTC, but where he’s going next is unknown. Jonah Becker Smartphone maker HTC may be finding itself a little unsteady in the design department. On Thursday, HTC’s associate vice president of industrial design, Jonah Becker, announced on his Twitter feed that he has left the company. He didn’t say what his …

A look at the age makeup of the top social networks. ComScore On Snapchat, if you’re under 35, you’re in good company. A whopping 71 percent of Snapchat’s US-based users are between the ages of 18 and 34, a new study from research firm ComScore shows. That easily topped Facebook and Twitter, which are made up of 38 percent and …

Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer, Mike Schroepfer, talking about Facebook’s drone program. Facebook It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…a giant Internet router? That could be the reaction later this year when Facebook gets its high-flying, wide-wingspan drone off the ground. At its F8 conference on Thursday, Facebook revealed that it had made a first test flight of an unmanned aerial …

A Foxconn worker assembling an Apple product in China. Apple Apple is turning to one of its top manufacturers to help boost sales in China, a new report says. As early as March 31, Apple and Foxconn will introduce a program that would allow current iPhone owners to trade in their devices at an Apple Store, Bloomberg is reporting, citing …

A look at the US ad business, according to eMarketer. eMarketer The US display ad business is set for a sizable shift this year as the once potent Yahoo slips even further, according to new data from research firm eMarketer. Facebook is on pace to nearly double the display advertising revenue generated by Google in the US this year, earning …

The Great China Firewall could come down for a couple of weeks in 2022. The Great Firewall of China would come down temporarily should Beijing land the 2022 Winter Olympics, a government official said Wednesday. Speaking to reporters in China, Wang Hui, a spokeswoman for the country’s effort to bring the games to the capital, said that if the city …

The folks at FoundationDB are headed to Cupertino. James Martin/CNET Apple has acquired a Virginia-based company that’s attempting to help firms quickly access massive amounts of data, according to new reports. Apple bought FoundationDB recently, the Wall Street Journal is reporting, citing a comment from the iPhone maker. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and Apple would only say …

Facebook could be partnering with The New York Times and other publications for news content. James Martin/CNET The world’s largest social network is already a source for all kinds of user-generated content, but it might soon become a hot spot for professional news stories. Facebook has partnered with The New York Times, BuzzFeed and National Geographic to start testing a …

Could Cyanogen rival Google in the Android space? Cyanogen Inc Cyanogen, the software maker building an Android-based operating system to take on Google, has raised a boatload of cash from some well-known sources. Cyanogen raised $80 million in a series C round of funding led by venture-capital firm Premji Invest, the company announced on Monday. Twitter’s private-investment arm, Twitter Ventures, …

Twitch’s chief doesn’t think consoles in their current incarnations are sustainable. Gaming broadcast service Twitch might have found a home on consoles, but in the coming years, the company’s chief executive doesn’t believe those devices can maintain their current business model. “The problem is, the seven-year upgrade lifecycle doesn’t work in the face of the two-year upgrade cycles for every …