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Lorraine Luk and Juro Osawa, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on May 16 at 4:30 am PT
Apple Inc., which is expected to launch its next-generation iPhone later this year, has ordered screens from its Asian suppliers that are bigger than the ones used in iPhones since they debuted in 2007, people familiar with the situation said.
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Mike Isaac in Social on May 16 at 4:06 am PT
Facebook is bumping up the number of shares in its initial public offering by
nearly 25 percent, pushing the total amount to more than 420 million shares. The increase means the company may end up raising $16 billion on Friday.
Mike Isaac in Social on May 16 at 3:30 am PT
As mobile social video apps skyrocket toward the top of the app store, some are going for the gold by any means necessary.
Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs will be the best or worst movie I’ve ever seen.
– Dan Frommer, via Twitter
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 15 at 11:01 pm PT
The comments, made at a shareholder meeting on Wednesday, follow what sources say was a meeting earlier this year between China Mobile and Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 15 at 7:42 pm PT
“Advertisers are learning and experimenting” with Facebook’s ad business, says Facebook itself. GM’s move shows the downside of making it up as you go.
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 15 at 5:59 pm PT
Availability is being pushed back for two of HTC’s latest smartphones as U.S. Customs ensures the phones aren’t in violation of an International Trade Commission exclusion order.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 15 at 5:28 pm PT
Drew Patterson has stepped down as founder and CEO of Jetsetter, the high-end luxury discount sales travel site owned by Gilt Groupe.
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Mike Isaac in Social on May 15 at 4:42 pm PT
After struggling to attract a significant user base over the past year, conversation-saving app Banters is closing up shop,
co-founder Lauren Leto announced via company blog on Tuesday. Leto and partner Patrick Moberg had raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from the likes of Chris Dixon, Khosla Ventures and SV Angel. The two will join Betaworks — Leto as general manager of the firm’s Findings product and Moberg as a “hacker-in-residence.”
Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 15 at 3:30 pm PT
To the growing list of things that can be sold “as-a-service” you can now add commerce. And create a new acronym: CaaS.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 15 at 2:56 pm PT
PayPal is hosting a media event next week where it will unveil the next batch of mega-retailers that are adopting the company’s online payment network at the register.
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Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on May 15 at 2:30 pm PT
Google Inc. plans to give multiple mobile-device makers — rather than just one partner — early access to new releases of its Android mobile operating system and to sell those devices directly to consumers, said people familiar with the matter.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 15 at 1:29 pm PT
Even though Groupon continues to carry the warning that its financial processes are weak, a handful of analysts upgraded the company to a buy rating today, and investors sent the stock climbing.
