B2C and Consumer Tech

With traditional toy and game sales lagging, Hasbro has found a growth engine in roleplaying games such as Dungeons and Dragons, trading card games like Magic: The Gathering, and a growing portfolio of digital and video games. On Bloomberg Chief Future Officer, Hasbro CFO/COO Gina Goetter tells Matt Miller how the company's Wizards of the Coast segment is poised to generate an increasing share of annual revenue. (Source: Bloomberg)

Apple Inc. is making changes to its iOS software in Japan to comply with a new local law aimed at fostering competition, part of broader efforts by the iPhone maker to adapt to regulations around the world.

ByteDance’s Doubao AI phone – a limited-run handset built with ZTE’s Nubia brand – remained in hot demand and continued to receive frequent software updates, even as the device drew scrutiny over privacy and data security after its debut in early December. ZTE’s online store briefly reopened applications on Tuesday for an “F code” – a so-called “friend code” – that granted priority access to buy the 3,499-yuan (US$497) handset. Marketed as a “technology preview edition”, the device carried a...

US spending on video game consoles fell 27% last month, marking the worst November in two decades as tariffs and rising component costs pushed prices to record highs.

NBC News reported last week that AI-powered toys gave answers about sex and Chinese Communist Party talking points in tests.

Chinese tablet makers, including Xiaomi and Honor, have raised prices across their product lines as they scrambled to absorb soaring costs of memory chips. Xiaomi, the Beijing-based smartphone and electric vehicle maker, has imposed mark-ups of 100 yuan (US$14) to 300 yuan on several tablet products this week, including its entry-level Redmi Pad 2 and the premium Xiaomi Pad 8 series. The Redmi Pad 2, launched in June this year with a starting price of 999 yuan, now carries a price tag of 1,199...

Apple this year delayed its big Siri upgrade to 2026. As the company looks ahead, the pressure is on for the iPhone maker to show investors its AI strategy.

Chinese smartphone and electric vehicle (EV) giant Xiaomi has released and open-sourced a new artificial intelligence model, MiMo-V2-Flash, that is expected to match up well against the latest systems from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Anthropic and OpenAI. Available worldwide on Xiaomi’s developer site MiMo Studio, Hugging Face and the API Platform, MiMo-V2-Flash “particularly excels in reasoning, coding and agentic scenarios, while also serving as an excellent general-purpose assistant for everyday...

An administrative law judge in California ruled Tesla's license to sell or manufacture cars in the state should be suspended for 30 days.

Tesla Inc. plans to launch battery-cell production at its plant outside Berlin as soon as 2027, German press agency DPA reported.

Meta said Tuesday that it will begin testing its Instagram for TV app in the U.S. via Amazon's Fire TV streaming devices.

EcoFlow Technology Inc. is considering an initial public offering in the US, according to people familiar with the portable battery maker’s plans, marking a rare move for a Chinese company of that size.

The average selling price of smartphones in 2026 is expected to rise 6.9%, Counterpoint Research said.

Global smartphone shipments may decline 2.1% next year as a shortage of memory chips drives up costs and squeezes production, according to industry tracker Counterpoint Research.

The company's bankruptcy comes after Amazon abandoned its planned acquisition of iRobot in 2024 due to mounting regulatory scrutiny.

China's AI toy industry is growing as Beijing pushes companies and consumers to integrate the technology.

iRobot, the U.S. firm that had robots vacuuming homes, will be taken over by its China-based supplier. It's assuring owners that devices will keep working as usual.

In the near term, investors may still be flighty, unless something concretely reassuring, such as Oracle achieving positive cash flow, takes place.

Several toys with artificial intelligence responded to questions with odd and sometimes sexually explicit answers.

Huawei Technologies is reinforcing its position in the foldable smartphone segment with the global launch of the Mate X7, as the market awaits Apple’s much-anticipated foldable iPhone and digests the recent announcement of Samsung Electronics’ first trifold. The Huawei Mate X7, which was released in China last month, features a thickness of 4.5mm (0.2 inches) when unfolded. The device, including the battery, weighs up to 236 grams. It was rolled out globally at an event in Dubai on Thursday....

After hearing the feedback, McDonald's Netherlands said in an email to NBC News on Wednesday that it had removed the ad. While "it was intended to...

New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook met with US lawmakers on Wednesday to lobby against pending children’s online safety legislation that would require app store operators to authenticate users’ ages, pressing instead for an alternate version that puts the burden of protecting kids on parents.

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Review: Amazon’s $630 pen-enabled device is a tough sell for most people.

The developer of the ICEBlock app sued the U.S. government for alleged free speech infringements.

Chinese companies moved quickly into smartglasses after Meta's release, with Inmo and Rokid sold worldwide.

That includes the first of Google's AI glasses in partnership with Warby Parker.

Apple has seen extraordinary turnover in its top ranks over just the past week.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it’s working to create two different categories of artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses to compete next year with existing models from Meta Platforms Inc.: one with screens, and another that’s audio focused.