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Today in Tech: Nintendo's Wii U
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* Nintendo pulled the wraps off its highly-anticipated new home videogame console, the Wii U. During the press event, the company emphasized the actual gaming experience over hardware specifications, though it was pretty quickly established that games would be in high-definition, a first for the company's home consoles. The MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 8, 2011 10:19 AM ETPosted in: Apple, comScore, DigiTimes, Hussein Fazal, Jack Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, Nintendo, Steve Jobs, TechCrunch, Twitter, Video game console, Vinod Khosla, Wii -
Today in Tech: Windows 8 teaser
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* Microsoft teased Windows 8 yesterday at All Things D's D9 conference, unveiling a versatile user interface heavily inspired by its Windows Phone 7 platform. While users will be able to access the classic Windows desktop experience they'll also experience the Start screen above, which presents users' apps MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 2, 2011 10:24 AM ET -
Jack Dorsey: The man with two brains
The cofounder of Square is also logging a full workload at Twitter, down the street. His plans for both startups remain grand (think IPO, not buyout).
FORTUNE -- Twitter is not for sale. Jack Dorsey, the cofounder-turned-prodigal son made this clear in an interview Wednesday with All Things D columnist Kara Swisher at the D9 tech conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
Instead, it's more likely an IPO is in the compay's MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Jun 1, 2011 9:23 PM ET -
Square COO says sights are set on beating PayPal
Square COO and super angel Keith Rabois talks about the startup's explosive growth and why it will eventually own mobile payments.
FORTUNE -- Two days after Square, the mobile payments startup co-founded by Twitter's Jack Dorsey, announced an iPad app that replaces cash registers and lets customers pay for products with their Android or iOS devices, company COO and super angel Keith Rabois took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - May 25, 2011 3:56 PM ET -
NFC: the future of mobile payments. Eventually.
Google and other companies say Near Field Communications will change the way consumers interact with merchants. Too soon?
FORTUNE -- As mobile commerce emerges, companies like Google (GOOG), Square, and reportedly Apple (AAPL) are placing their bets on some form of mobile payment where the users' smartphone becomes a credit transactional device. On Monday, Jack Dorsey's startup Square, which reported the shipment of 500,000 Square card readers and processing of $3 MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - May 25, 2011 11:58 AM ETPosted in: Alex Rampell, Google, iPhone, Jack Dorsey, Lewis Gersh, National Football Conference, NFC, Square, Stephanie Tilenius -
What price for Square's cool features?
Jack Dorsey is trying to make it hip to use Square's new Register and Tabs features, and he's taking a page from Apple on premium pricing.
FORTUNE -- Jack Dorsey's startup, Square, gets a lot of attention from the media. After all, Dorsey is also the co-founder of Twitter, which means plenty of people in Silicon Valley want to know about his every move. But Square's high-profile status doesn't mean its MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - May 24, 2011 1:59 PM ETPosted in: App Store, Card reader, Credit card, Jack Dorsey, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Square, Steve Jobs -
Wanna be an entrepreneur? Start early.
At TechCrunch Disrupt in New York today, super-angels Ron Conway and David Lee say the younger you are, the more likely your start-up will take off.
FORTUNE -- Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room; Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Google's (GOOG) Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded their respective companies in their twenties. All of them were young when they got their start, and that's not a coincidence according MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - May 23, 2011 6:02 PM ETPosted in: David Lee, Facebook, Jack Dorsey, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Ron Conway, Sergey Brin, SV Angel -
Dorsey's Square tries to eliminate the card swipe by bringing back the tab
Square is announcing two new services -- Card Case and Square Register -- hoping to reduce payment friction even more, on both ends of everyday transactions.
FORTUNE -- Jack Dorsey hates receipts, but fans of his startup, Square, already knew that. Turns out, he kind of hates credit cards, too.
Square, known for its tiny credit card reader that allows businesses to process payments from a smartphone, is announcing its latest product MORE
Mason Cohn, Producer - May 23, 2011 1:32 PM ET -
Today in Tech: Can BlackBerry still cut it?
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"It is not thicker, don't believe all the junk that you read."
-- Apple Senior VP Phil Schiller supposed response to reports that the white iPhone 4 is thicker (9 to 5 Mac)Some Research In Motion investors reportedly sold shares late last week based on growing general concern that MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - May 2, 2011 6:30 AM ETPosted in: Apple, BlackBerry, GoPayment, iMac, Intuit, Jack Dorsey, Mastercard, Mobile, Playstation, Research in Motion, Rio Caraeff, Samsung, Sony, Vevo, YouTube -
Today in Tech: Yahoo sells Delicious, Square gets Visa
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"Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so."
--Apple on reports that it's tracking iPhone and 3G iPad users (Fortune)All Things D has the skinny from Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller on why the white iPhone 4 took so darned MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 28, 2011 6:30 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Facebook, GodFinger, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Jack Dorsey, Playstation, Square, YouTube
