BlackBerry CEO John Chen — with the backing of some loyal and vocal customers — freely bashed T-Mobile’s recent e-mail marketing campaign Tuesday. The campaign was “inappropriate and ill-conceived,” Chen wrote in a blog post. T-Mobile e-mailed customers last week in a campaign to encourage BlackBerry customers to switch to an iPhone. BlackBerry users on …

Valentine’s Day is approaching, and we know what that means: another off-the-wall promotion from Uber. The on-demand car service is adding the ability to order skywriting messages from its app for select cities on Friday. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. there will be an “UberSKY” option on the app for users in New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, and …

Clinkle has hired away an executive from digital payments giant PayPal, the startup announced Tuesday. The fledging mobile payments company, which has yet to officially reveal how its product works, has hired Mike Liberatore, a vice president at PayPal heading up enterprise and North American financials, to be Clinkle’s chief financial officer. He’s leaving PayPal after nearly five years. Prior …

The government is not going to save BlackBerry with a massive order of 80,000 phones, despite earlier reports that sent the struggling company’s stock soaring. The Department of Defense confirmed to The Verge on Thursday that “absolutely no new orders have been placed for new BB devices.” The 80,000 phones mentioned in a January 16 press release — that, it …

Uber has slashed its UberX prices again, making it the cheapest transportation option in the US, the company’s CEO, Travis Kalanick, boasted in a blog post Thursday. Ride fares are down between 15 percent and 34 percent in 6 of the 24 cities that have the UberX service. Uber’s app lets users order a variety of car services — including …

Samsung CEO BK Yoon made the company’s current mission clear at a CES press conference Monday: Samsung wants to take over your home. Yoon said Samsung products will soon aid people in almost all aspects of their lives. “Imagine getting a health check from your doctor through your TV. Imagine your family watching a TV show in the living room …

Sharp unveiled its new line of Aquos TVs on Monday, once again showing the consumer-electronics world that it knows how to think big. The company touted the Aquos 4K, Aquos Q, and what Sharp President John Herrington called a “game changer” TV, the Aquos Quattron Plus, which has 10 million more subpixels than full HD. Sharp will release these TVs …

LG unveiled a 77-inch flexible OLED TV at the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show on Monday, in tandem with competitor Samsung’s own buzzworthy bendable TV announcement. The new LG television lets users adjust the angle of a TV screen with a remote control, switching the viewing from a flat screen to a curved screen. The result, LG hopes, is an …

Uber banned a driver from its system after San Francisco police identified him as the driver of an SUV that allegedly hit and killed a 6 year-old-girl on New Year’s Eve. VentureBeat noted the updated statement from Uber on Thursday. The company, which previously said it would “immediately deactivate any Uber partner involved in a serious law enforcement matter,” said …

BlackBerry had to cancel more than its conferencethis year. Fearing poor sales, the beleaguered company also had to cancel two phones that were still in development. “The company also made the decision to cancel plans to launch two devices to mitigate the identified inventory risk,” reads BlackBerry’s third-quarter earnings report published Friday. The Wall Street Journal came across the buried …