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Mobile Payments Heat Up in Sweden
"We are working with an Android version of iZettle and it will be released later this year ," said iZettle's Chief Marketing Officer Johan Bendz, who was visiting a mobile payments seminar in Stockholm.
Google Acquires Motorola Mobility
The acquisition will enable Google to supercharge the Android ecosystem and will enhance competition in mobile computing. Motorola Mobility will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open.
Facebook's epic fail
Maybe the dumb money wasn't so dumb this time. The stock market did turn out to be a voting machine on Facebook on Friday...
Amazon Pitching Kindle Fire Ads for $600K
Amazon is pondering an advertising subsidy for its Kindle Fire tablet. Ad Age reports that Amazon has been pitching Kindle Fire welcome-screen ads to ad agency executives...
Facebook's Acquisition of Karma Brings Mobile
Facebook's Acquisition of Karma Brings Mobile Commerce. Karma makes apps for gifting friends and family. The purchase will help Facebook build up monetization prowess on mobile platforms - an area it's admittedly weak in...
Do Facebook ads work? IPO, GM spotlight issue
Just as Facebook prepares for its highly anticipated initial public offering of stock, the effectiveness of advertising on the site is under scrutiny...
Starbucks Brews Loyalty With Mobile Payment
Starbucks makes it easy for customers to buy coffee. So easy, in fact, that they don't even need cash or a credit card. A smartphone will work just fine...
Drawbridge Raises $6.5M Series A
Drawbridge aims to solve the two biggest hurdles in mobile advertising today: targeting and tracking...
Facebook admits to mobile weakness in new filing
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Facebook on Wednesday submitted another amendment to its S-1 filing to the SEC, further outlining its weaknesses in the mobile realm.
ComScore, Android 46.9%, Apple 28.7%
For the three-month average period ending in February, 234 million Americans age 13 and older used mobile devices. Device manufacturer Samsung ranked as...
Androids Invade CES 2012
The predictable phones and tablets running Android are joined by TVs, goggles, cameras and more. Here are some of the gadgets running Android ...
LinkedIn Raises $352.8 Million in U.S. IPO
LinkedIn gets 70 percent of revenue from business subscriptions, a model that's similar ...
Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 Billion...
Just days after reports that Google and Facebook were interested in partnering with, and possibly buying VoIP company Skype, Microsoft ...
iPad 2 International Launch – Already Out of...
Less than 24 hours after the launch of the iPad 2 in 25 countries across the globe, international buyers are already experiencing iPad 2 shortages, as the device is reportedly out-of-stock in many countries, including United Kingdom, France and Germany ...
Facebook Raises $500 Million in Funding, Now...
Facebook has received a massive new round of funding: $450 million from Goldman Sachs and $50 million from Russian investment firm Digital ...
First Look: iOS 4.1
As it has in previous years, Apple has quickly followed up a major iOS release with a point-one release that promises not only to fix outstanding bugs, but also to bring new and wondrous features to the company’s mobile operating system.
Google TV Launching In Autumn, Says Google
According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Google’s highly-anticipated “Google TV” product will be making its official debut some time in the Autumn. Schmidt made note of the release at the IFA trade show in Berlin, Germany, and noted that a worldwide launch of the product is planned for 2011.
Tablet Wars at IFA in Berlin, 3D Cameras...
World Tech Update is on location at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin where Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Tab, Toshiba introduced the Folio 100 tablet, Sony’s Howard Stringer discussed a 24/7 3D television station, Panasonic has a camcorder that lets consumers to create their own 3D content...
HTC is rising power in smart phone industry
The Taiwanese firm has become the fourth-largest maker in the world, helped by its connection to Android. After mulling over which smart phone to buy for months, Seth Chapman decided against jumping on the iPhone, BlackBerry or Droid X bandwagons and instead went with the HTC Evo 4G.
YouTube Leanback Foundation For Google TV...
Clearly, YouTube had the television set in mind when launching the Leanback in beta late Wednesday. The company has been working on the feature for months...
Frash promises Flash on Apple iPad
We all know that Apple has called off any possibility of bringing Adobe Flash on the iOS platform. Nevertheless, the enthusiast community managed to port Flash on the iPhone and make it work in the Mobile Safari browser.
LG announces plans for Android...tablet
LG Electronics announced Monday that it plans to release an Android-based tablet computer by the fourth quarter of the year.
Google launches an app store...
Google today attempted to sound the death knell for desktop-based computing, with a presentation to 5,000 software developers that emphasised the need for new computer programmes to be accessed through the internet browser, based online and available to a range of mobile devices...
Mobile market up...Android and iPhone...
The mobile phone market is up big for the first quarter of 2010 after sales declines during 2009, according to the latest sales figures released by market research firm Gartner....
The iPad Has Business Potential
You might think of the iPad as an entertainment device, but this tablet has some real potential as a business tool. ...
Android Market hits... 50,000 apps
After just 18 months, the Android Market has hit its latest milestone, 50,000 apps available in the marketplace. ...
Verizon's HTC Incredible: First detailed...
Gadget geeks will have to wait 11 more days to get their hands on the new HTC Incredible, a high- powered Android smartphone. However, we have something that can hold you over until then. ...
Adobe Announces Flash for Android Beta
Apple may not want Flash on its mobile devices, but users of Android will soon gain full support for the multimedia platform.
Adobe has officially begun beta testing its Flash Player for Android. According to Lee Brimelow, an Adobe platform evangelist, private testing is now underway and a public beta will come next. ...
HTC EVO 4G (Sprint 4G)
The star of CTIA, the HTC EVO 4G is the first Android smartphone with 4G network support. Coming to Sprint's 4G network, the EVO 4G packs some powerful ...