MobileBeat

Talking Mobile With Google’s Jason Spero and AOL’s David Temkin

Ina Fried in Mobile on July 29, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

In two recent onstage interviews, AllThingsD‘s Ina Fried had a chance to put top mobile executives from AOL and Google in the hotseat. And just like the NFL, we have video replay.

PayPal Enables Peer-to-Peer Payments on Android With NFC

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on July 13, 2011 at 10:46 am PT

According to Laura Chambers, the senior director of PayPal Mobile who appeared at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat conference in San Francisco today, the company has doubled its mobile payments projections to $3 billion this year, and is investing heavily in new ways to make it easy to pay with the phone.

Android’s Co-Founder: Developers Can Now Afford to Wait on iPhone

Ina Fried in Mobile on July 12, 2011 at 12:52 pm PT

Rich Miner, who helps lead Google’s $100 million-per-year venture capital fund, says that until recently there just weren’t enough Android handsets out there to merit developing first for the operating system he helped create. “That has clearly flipped,” Miner said, speaking Tuesday at the MobileBeat conference in San Francisco.

PaidContent's Rafat Ali Speaks! So, Here's Who's Next…

Kara Swisher in News on July 11, 2008 at 7:41 pm PT

Earlier today, BoomTown broke the stunning-for-blogs news that ContentNext, owner of the popular online digital media news site paidContent, was being bought by the Guardian Media Group for about $30 million in an earn-out acquisition. But the deal–which comes after the mid-May sale of Ars Technica to Condé Nast for a reported $25 million–begs the question of which tech blog might be next to be acquired. And, after much noisy poking around today, BoomTown is giving the nod to one of the sector’s larger and splashier sites: TechCrunch.