Jimmy Iovine’s tenure at Apple may come to an end this summer. The music mogul, who joined Apple as part of its acquisition of Beats Electronics, could be leaving the company in August, according to a Hits Daily Double report Thursday. Iovine’s expected departure is likely timed to his Apple shares fully vesting, the report …

It was a very happy New Year for Apple’s App Store. Owners of iOS devices made New Year’s Day the biggest sales day ever for the App Store, logging $300 million in purchases, the gadget giant said in a statement Thursday. That sales total is 25 percent higher than the same day a year ago. The App Store has been …

Spotify has been sued for allegedly playing thousands of songs from the likes of Tom Petty, Neil Young and The Doors without permission. Wixen Music Publishing, a song licensee, sued Spotify last week in California federal court, alleging the music-streaming startup is using its songs without the proper license or compensation to the music publisher. The lawsuit seeks $1.6 billion …

Apple said Saturday it will make discounted replacement iPhone batteries available immediately, its latest move to soothe feelings after admitting it purposely slowed batteries on older handsets. On Thursday, the company said it would offer a $29 battery replacement that would return an iPhone 6 or later model to its original performance. The offer, which cut the price of batteries’ …

Chinese phone maker Huawei plans to begin selling smartphones through a US carrier next year, an executive for the company told the Associated Press on Monday. Richard Yu, the president of Huawei Technologies’ consumer business, told the news agency its flagship Mate 10 would be the first handset offered but declined to discuss a price or identify which carrier or …

Drone operators will once again be required to register their aircraft with the federal government under a sweeping defense policy bill signed into law Tuesday. The requirement that recreational drone operators register their unmanned aerial vehicles with the Federal Aviation Administration was included in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, which President Donald Trump signed Tuesday. The provision reinstates a …

YouTube plans to launch a new music subscription service in March, Bloomberg reported Thursday, a move that would be Google-parent Alphabet’s third attempt to challenge rivals Apple and Spotify. The new streaming service, tentatively called Remix, will feature on-demand streaming and incorporate video clips from YouTube, sources described as familiar with the company’s plans told the news outlet. Major recording …

Texting turned 25 on Sunday, ICYMI. The first text message was sent on Dec. 3, 1992, by British engineer Neil Papworth to Richard Jarvis, an executive at British telecom Vodafone, who was attending his company’s holiday party in Newbury, England. Typed out on a PC, it was sent to Jarvis’s Orbitel 901, a mobile phone that would take up most …

Were it not for Gertrude Jekyll, much of the world might be a much drabber place. Born in 1843, Jekyll was a British horticulturist, garden designer, artist and writer who created more than 400 gardens in Europe in the US and wrote 15 books and more than 1,000 magazine articles on garden design. To honor Jekyll, described as “a premier …

Verizon said Wednesday that it plans to launch wireless 5G service in up to five US cities by the end of next year. Sacramento, California, is likely to be the first city to get access to the 5G network, which promises to be 10 to 100 times faster than the company’s speediest existing cellular connections. That service should begin in …