When you think of wacky and innovative tech companies, Google is usually the first to come up. But Facebook is quickly becoming second. More people in Silicon Valley are talking about how Mark Zuckerberg is transforming Facebook from a way to share baby photos and updates about what we ate for breakfast to a company …

It finally happened. Apple on Tuesday reported its first-ever drop in iPhone sales, with fiscal second-quarter unit shipments down 16 percent to 51.2 million. That’s lower than the 61.1 million the company sold the same time last year, though it is in line with the 51 million analysts expected Apple to sell in the three months ended in March. Even …

What do you do when you come across the Facebook page for a presidential candidate you don’t like? In the case of a person calling himself Casey Champagne, the answer was to find a way to shut it down. That’s what seems to have happened Monday, when Champagne published screenshots that allegedly show he got Facebook to take down pages …

Donald Trump may be a Facebook fan, but it’s a pretty good guess that he’s not liking Mark Zuckerberg’s most recent posts. Facebook’s CEO kicked off the company’s F8 developer conference Tuesday with a thinly veiled shot at the front-runner for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination. He followed that with a post on his social network, saying that his presentation …

Facebook wants you to take a selfie in virtual reality. The social networking giant is building apps that make it easy to share photos with people using its Oculus Rift headsets, which put a screen so close to people’s eyes that it tricks them into thinking they’re actually in a computer-generated world. One app the company showed off at its …

Facebook wants to help you build a really expensive camera. And once you do, the company says, it’ll be worth it. The social-networking giant is offering filmmakers instructions for how to build a camera designed to capture 360-degree video. The project is called Surround 360, and the camera will cost about $30,000 to make. That may seem like a lot, …

Here come the bots. Facebook said Tuesday that it’s going to start allowing companies to build chatty programs designed to, well, chat with its users. Think of it as an early version of Rosie the robot maid from “The Jetsons,” minus the physical robot. They’re called “bots” in techie speak. You use them by opening Facebook’s Messenger app on your …

Advertising and the Internet: It only seemed like a marriage made in heaven. Well, Microsoft might begin offering a respite if you’re willing to shell out $3.99 per month and use its email service, Outlook.com. You’ll get other features too, like personalized email addresses ([email protected]). This is all according to a page on Microsoft’s website, first spotted by Thurrott.com, for …

Microsoft has seen the future, and it’s filled with bots. No, not robots or flying drones, but rather these new apps that can perform simple tasks at your beck and call. Want to book a flight? Microsoft believes a bot can do that for you. Need to remember to send an email to your boss? A bot can remind you. …

When you think of cool tech, Microsoft Windows probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. You’re not alone. Even after Microsoft got into the business of selling sleek, powerful gadgets like its Surface tablet-laptop hybrids, the company has struggled to convince people it’s on the cutting edge of tech. Case in point: Windows 10. The highly regarded operating …