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Today in Tech: Google launching NFC system today
Fortune's curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you every day.
"His continued presence is the biggest overhang on Microsoft's stock." -- hedge fund manager David Einhorn on CEO Steve Ballmer (Reuters)
* Tech blog "This is my next" confirms Google will introduce the a near field communications (NFC) payment system later today along with participating retail partners that will MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - May 26, 2011 10:33 AM ETPosted in: Container Store, Google, Google Maps, Léo Apotheker, PayPal, Steve Ballmer, TechCrunch Disrupt, VentureBeat -
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 -
Venmo: Fighting the good fight against the online payment giants
In each corner of the startup world there's a Venmo for every Paypal -- a little engine that could, and wants to, badly.
FORTUNE -- Hours before I met Andrew Kortina, I had already given him my credit card number. I don't do this with just any stranger. But Kortina and his cofounder Iqram Magdon-Ismail have built a service called Venmo, which promises to make mobile payments so easy, people will MORE
Chadwick Matlin - Apr 25, 2011 11:15 AM ETPosted in: Andrew Kortina, Business, eBay, Financial Services, iPhone, Iqram Magdon-Ismail, PayPal, Venmo -
Today in Tech: The real Steve Jobs bio, Linux's 20th anniversary
A curated selection of the weekend's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you everyday.
Former CNN and Time magazine exec Walter Isaacson is working on the first authorized Steve Jobs biography ever, entitled "iSteve: The Book of Jobs," which hits shelves and e-bookstores early next year. Isaacson reportedly has unprecedented access to pen the opus, including interviews with Jobs, members of MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 11, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Facebook, Farmville, iPad, Jack Dorsey, PayPal, Steve Jobs, TIME Magazine, Twitter, Walter Isaacson -
Today in Tech: Nokia-Microsoft phone photos, cheaper iPhone coming
A curated selection of the weekend's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop revealed over the weekend that Microsoft outbid Google and will pay Nokia "billions" for the right to have its recently-introduced Windows Phone 7 operating system run on the handset maker's devices. Elop also hinted the first Windows Phone 7 are likely to come out this year instead of next. (Computerworld)
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Feb 14, 2011 6:00 AM ET
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Today in Tech: iPad 2 in production, Nokia's burning platform
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
According to sources, Apple is already knee-deep in production of the next-generation iPad, or iPad 2, which will be thinner and lighter, sport at least one built-in camera for video chat, a significantly faster processor, more memory, and a screen resolution similar to the current version's 1,024 by 768. Expect WiFi, AT&T and Verizon versions priced MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Feb 9, 2011 6:00 AM ETPosted in: Apple, AT&T, eBay, iPad, iPad 2, MediaTek, MeeGo, new iPad, Nokia, PayPal, Stephen Elop, TechCrunch, Verizon iPad, Windows Phone 7 -
Today in Tech: Intel Sandy Bridge flaw to cost $1 billion
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
"Once Steve Jobs goes away, which is probably not far away, then Apple will have to make a strategic decision on whether to open up the platform. ... What's the reason for him [Jobs] to trash Flash? There's no reason other than ego." -- Netgear co-founder Patrick Lo in Sydney Australia. (The Register)
"Steve Jobs doesn't give MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Feb 1, 2011 3:19 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Cisco, Egypt, Facebook, Google, Intel, Internet service provider, Mobile, PayPal, Steve Jobs -
A Twitter guy takes on big banks
Jack Dorsey has a bold idea: make accepting a credit card as easy as sending a tweet.
Until recently Jack Dorsey was best known in the business world as the creator and chairman of Twitter, which has transformed the way millions of people communicate and get information. These days, though, Dorsey, 34, has been garnering bigtime buzz for his latest venture, Square, a service that aims to upend the banking industry MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jan 31, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: credit card reader, credit cards, Intuit, Jack Dorsey, PayPal, small business, Smartphones, Square, Twitter -
Facebook: Pay our way or get out
As Facebook starts to host all sorts of commerce -- and is now mandating the use of its currency -- perhaps it's time to stop thinking of it as a company and start thinking of it as a country.
By Chadwick Matlin, contributor
"The strength of a nation's currency is based on the strength of a nation's economy." Richard Nixon, circa 1971, announcing that foreign governments could no longer convert U.S. MORE
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Apple deletes WikiLeaks App - Update
Has it found common cause with Amazon, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Bank of America?
Igor Barinov's WikiLeaks App didn't get much attention when it appeared on the App Store last Saturday.
That's not a big surprise. After all, the iPhone app wasn't an official WikiLeak's project and it didn't bring much to the party. For $1.99 ($1 of which was apparently donated to Julian Assange's organization) you didn't get anything you couldn't MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 21, 2010 8:13 AM ETPosted in: App Store, Apple, Bank of America, iPhone, Julian Assange, Mastercard, PayPal, Wikileak, WikiLeaks
