Those hoping for Eventbrite to go public may have to wait a while longer.The popular online ticketing service announced Monday that it has raised another $60 million in financing led by Tiger Global Management. That brings the company's total funding to $140 million.In a statement, Eventbrite noted that the latest round of financing would help it to "continue innovating, building and changing the landscape of ticketing" by focusing on areas like international growth and developing for mobile. But the additional funds will also buy Eventbrite more time before filing for an IPO. "This gives us f... Read similar

Every earnings report from Apple is viewed as a market moving event, but even by that standard, today's report is huge.For months, Apple's perception on Wall Street and Main Street has been tarnished by software blunders, supply constraint rumors, executive shakeups, increasing competition from Samsung and Google, and a growing concern that it might not have another breakthrough product in the pipelineIt has now been more than half a year since Apple held a major launch event for a new product — the iPad Mini in October. Speculation about the company's decline has come to fill that void.... Read similar

Caleb Solomon knew something big had happened when he heard The Boston Globe's newsroom fill up with noise. Like many of today's newsrooms, The Globe's tends to be relatively quiet, but that changed last Monday immediately after two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon's finish line."All of the sudden, I could see out of my office that people were starting to cluster and make noises: 'Oh my god!' 'What's going on?'" said Solomon, who is the managing editor of The Globe's digital operations. "Very quickly, we realized something bad was happening and we changed gears to cover it."The top priori... Read similar

Apple beat Wall Street's estimates for revenue and sales of the iPhone and iPad in the March quarter, but the company's profits declined year-over-year for the first time in a decade.Apple sold 37.4 million iPhones and 19.5 million iPads, surpassing analysts' estimates by about 1 million on both fronts. Those device sales helped Apple bring in $43.6 billion in revenue for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $42.6 billion and setting a new record for March quarter revenues."We are pleased to report record March quarter revenue thanks to continued strong performance of iPhone and iPad... Read similar

Don't hold your breath for any big Apple product launches this summer.Apple's CEO Tim Cook suggested during the March quarter earnings call Tuesday that the company will not be releasing any new products until the fall. "Our teams are hard at work on some amazing new hardware, software and services we can't wait to introduce this fall and throughout 2014," Cook said.When asked to clarify later in the call whether this meant no new products would come during the summer, Cook remained somewhat vague. "I dont want to be more specific, but I'm just saying we've got some really great sutff coming i... Read similar

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference will take place this year between June 10-14 at San Francisco's Moscone West, the company announced on Wednesday.As with previous years, the conference will focus on iOS and OSX, Apple's two major platforms. Unlike in previous years, Apple decided to pre-announce the conference and start selling tickets ($1,599) on Thursday at 10 AM PT. That move likely comes in response to developers in Europe and the West Coast who were frustrated last year when tickets were announced and put on sale at 5:30 PT and sold out in less than two hours.At this year's WWDC, t... Read similar

Investors and analysts can't seem to decide whether Apple just gave them good news or bad news.Apple's stock has been on a roller coaster ride since the company released its March earnings report shortly after the market closed on Tuesday. At first, the stock shot up by more than 5%, but as the earnings call got under way, it started to trickle back down. Just before the market opened Wednesday, the stock was down more than 3% — a swing of nearly $40 per share in about 17 hours.As I write this, the stock is hovering right around the $400 mark and bouncing back and forth between positive ... Read similar

Like other tech companies, Microsoft has advertised some of its products in the past by offering free Wi-Fi in public places like subways and park benches. Now, the company is doing something a little more original and promoting a product by offering free Wi-Fi inside a magazine.Yes, you read that right. In a new promotion, Microsoft is advertising Office 365 by installing a T-Mobile router into the latest issue of Forbes magazine, turning the print publication into a Wi-Fi hotspot for two weeks. The promotion was first reported by Engadget and has since been confirmed to Mashable by a Microso... Read similar

Fred Amoroso, Yahoo's chairman of the board, is resigning his position, the company announced late Thursday.Amoroso took over as Yahoo's chairman in May at the same time that Ross Levinsohn was appointed interim CEO. As chairman, he led the team that investigated Yahoo's former CEO Scott Thompson for fabricating some of his credentials. He also played a part in helping bring Marissa Mayer in from Google to serve as Yahoo's new CEO."Fred has been a wonderful chairman for Yahoo! over the past year, and I’m personally grateful for his trust and guidance as I took on the role as Yahoo! CEO,"... Read similar

It was only a matter of time.Smartphone shipments overtook feature phone shipments worldwide in the first quarter of this year for the first time ever, according to a new report from IDC.There were 418.6 million mobile phones shipped worldwide in the March quarter, according to IDC, 216.2 million of which were smartphones. This marked the first time that smartphones represented more than half the market. Smartphone shipments increased by more than 40% year-over-year."The days where phones are used primarily to make phone calls and send text messages are quickly fading away," said Kevin Restivo... Read similar