Just 18 months after reaching 200 million users, PayPal has revealed that it now has a 250 million users around the world. The firm stated that it is growing at three million users per month.
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Gaming-focused Voice-over-IP client Discord has just announced it reached the 87 million registered users milestone. Furthermore, next year will bring improved screen share, Rich Presence, and more.
The automatic certificate authority, Let's Encrypt, has passed a huge milestone of issuing 100 million certificates. It said 58% of the internet is using HTTPS and that it's proud to have contributed.
Last week, Apple announced that is had amassed 27 million paid subscribers for its Apple Music streaming service. Now, Spotify has offered up its numbers, touting a healthy 140 million active users.
New data shows that over the first quarter of 2017, Samsung has sold 7.2 million units of the previous generation flagship devices, the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, bringing total sales to 55 million.
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that more than 30 million players have joined up to play Overwatch. This feat speaks volumes of the game's popularity, considering it is less than a year old.
Over 30 million players now own Rocket League, with the developer, Psyonix, confirming it has hit the new milestone over Twitter, just three months after it crossed 25 million players.
Mojang's block-building game has crossed a pretty incredible milestone with over 122 million copies of the game sold. The game is being played by about 55 million active monthly users.
Microsoft has announced that it has achieved the lowest word error rate (WER) in speech recognition in the industry, which bodes well for its AI solutions, Cortana and Skype Translator.
Uber's CEO has posted to Facebook announcing that his company has delivered two billion rides to customers. This is impressive, as it took Uber five years to reach its initial billion rides.
One of the first things that the Cupertino tech giant has announced at the Apple event is an update on the environmental progress that the company has made with its renewable energy initiatives.
At its devices event today, Microsoft has officially announced that Windows 10 is now installed on more than a hundred million devices which includes Windows Insiders and Enterprise users.
A report claims Windows 10 installations now stand at 81 million - but that would indicate a dramatic slowdown in Microsoft's rollout. Neowin understands the true total is actually closer to 100m.
Surpassing yet another major milestone, the WhatsApp CEO has just announced that the platform independent messaging app is now serving an astonishing six hundred million users.
Apple is celebrating a new milestone: 1 billion podcast subscriptions. This format has become on of the most popular entertainment mediums out there with countless episodes being released every day.
Feature phones need some lovin' too; Facebook has announced that they have now recorded over 100 million users accessing the social network using their Facebook for Every Phone app.
Inside the recent announcement for the Lumia 928 is a new piece of information: there are now 145,000 apps in the Windows Phone store, up from 120,000 apps in October 2012, but growth has slowed.
Roku, the Internet-connected video streaming set top box, have announced a major milestone: 5 million users, who have brought in over 8 billion video streams, or 1,600 streams per user.
Following this week's leak of Windows Blue, it's emerged that Microsoft will be launching a 'public preview' version of the OS at its BUILD developer conference in June.
Earlier this month the original IBM PC model 5150 celebrated its 30th anniversary. We didn't want to let the occasion go by without paying our respects to the legacy that the 5150 brought.
Facebook has managed to hit another large milestone - 1,000,000,000,000 page views. Next up, 2 trillion!
While Windows 8 may be getting all of the attention lately with its milestone builds, another blockbuster product for Microsoft has just passed into the milestone 2 marker. Microsoft Office 2012 (the 15th version) is...
Since its release on February 10th, the IE9 Release Candidate has been downloaded over 11 million times. Together with the IE9 Beta, IE9 has been downloaded over 36 million times since its initial availability on...
Mozilla has celebrated a milestone from its great hit Mozilla Firefox, reaching 1 billion downloads. The open source browser released its first version in 2004 with nearly 3 million people already using it before...
Mary-Jo Foley's blog reports some of the new things in Microsoft's internally released Windows 7 milestone. The successor to Windows Vista is only about a year away and scheduled to go into beta next month....
The first chip to pack more than two billion transistors has been launched by silicon giant Intel. The quad-core chip, known as Tukwila, is designed for high-end servers rather than personal computers. It operates at...
Neowin became seven years old on October 1st. I blogged about it briefly on the 29th and said pretty much all of what I wanted to say on the day so I didn't post about...
The FreeDOS project, an attempt to create an open-source alternative to Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system, has finally reached a major milestone. After years of work, version 1.0 of FreeDOS is now available for download from...
The shipment of IronPython 1.0 this week marks a milestone for the long-running project, aimed at developing a Python implementation on Microsoft's .Net platform, and for developers' goal of expanding .Net support for dynamic programming...
Wednesday, November 2nd will be an historic date for NASA and the International Space Station as it marks the Stations fifth year anniversary of continuous human presence in space. Since the delivery of the module...
Microsoft announces M12 milestone for OneCare. An email was sent out to all current beta testers notifying them of new updates and features in OneCare. The only downside was that all firewall policies...
PalmSource has released version 6.0 of its Palm OS operating system. The new software represents the biggest leap forward in the history of the OS, finally silencing critics (not least amongst current and prospective licensees)...
A new Bluetooth specification improves the wireless technology's ease of use and connection quality, while shipments continue their ascent. Bluetooth, the short-range wireless technology, has passed another landmark in its goal of becoming ubiquitous. Amid...
