News Byte
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 9 at 7:00 pm PT
Intuit will soon launch its mobile credit-card reader in Canada, beating the well-funded-and-recognized Square to the market. Both companies distribute devices that allow small-scale merchants to accept credit cards on a cellphone or tablet; so far, Square only operates in the U.S. Intuit, the publicly held company that sells other small-business resources, such as QuickBooks, said its GoPayment device will be available in Canada early this year; it plans to push into other international markets in the future.
Tricia Duryee in Mobile on December 27, 2011 at 10:07 am PT
A record number of applications were downloaded on Dec. 25, making it a very “appy” Christmas for at least some mobile developers.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 1, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
Verizon Wireless is announcing a partnership with American Express that will enable its 100-million-plus mobile subscribers to pay for goods online using their phone numbers.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 29, 2011 at 8:55 am PT
Nokia’s obsession with Apple has officially crossed over into the Ahabian. Aghast at the U.S. International Trade Commission’s ruling on its first complaint against Apple, Nokia has filed a second, accusing Apple of infringing its patents “in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, tablets, and computers.”
Liz Gannes in Social on February 9, 2011 at 10:53 pm PT
I last wrote about Bubble Motion, provider of the Bubbly mobile messaging service, exactly a year ago. At the time, the company had 150,000 users. Today, it has more than seven million.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 7, 2011 at 8:46 am PT
From the San Francisco Chronicle offices where some of the newspaper’s local ad sales used to be, we caught up with Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and CEO of Square, who wants to redefine the payments process.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 21, 2010 at 11:18 am PT
A word of warning to AT&T subscribers who would switch carriers when the company’s iPhone exclusivity deal with Apple finally ends: The cost of doing so will soon rise–substantially. Come June 1, AT&T is raising its early-termination fee on smartphones to $325 from $175.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 13, 2010 at 2:12 pm PT
It has been almost three years since Apple’s iPhone arrived at market, and Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, has still failed to develop a worthy rival to it. Will the company ever figure this out or will it continue to play a slow game of catch-up in the smartphone market?
John Paczkowski in News on May 13, 2010 at 4:00 am PT
Nearly one in four U.S. households has abandoned traditional landline telephones in favor of their wireless brethren. That’s the word from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which says in a new study that 25 percent of the households it polled for its Wireless Substitution survey are wireless-only, while just 15 percent are landline-only.
Jennifer Valentino, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 2, 2010 at 1:00 am PT
He might not be using sophisticated technology in his weather forecasts, but famous groundhog prognosticator Punxsutawney Phil will take a step into the 21st century Tuesday morning when he sends his annual prediction by text.
