Liz Gannes in Product News on May 16 at 10:00 am PT
A new start-up called Electric Imp promises to turn almost any product into a connected device with the addition of a tiny card in a slot.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 16 at 6:00 am PT
“Carrying the iPhone will be quite profitable,” says Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, for the umpteenth time.
Liz Gannes in Mobile on May 16 at 5:00 am PT
With 50 percent of the mobile browser market in its home market of China, UCWeb is now looking across the Pacific.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.”
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.
John Paczkowski in News on May 15 at 1:14 pm PT
Hard to believe that just five years ago, RIM had a stock market value of $80 billion.