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Today in Tech: iPad 2, Android 3.0, and Google ebooks
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
At All Things Digital's D: Dive Into Mobile last night, Android creator Andy Rubin revealed he and Nokia have discussed the idea of adopting Android as one of many alternatives for the handset-maker. Rubin also whipped out MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 7, 2010 6:47 AM ETPosted in: All Things Digital, Andy Rubin, Facebook, FrontierVille, Google, iPad, Mastercard, PayPal, ReadWriteWeb, Tim O'Shaughnessy, VentureBeat, WikiLeaks -
Game on, job seekers!
The professional social network GILD wants users to find jobs and have fun and win prizes while they're at it. Can gamification work for something as big as finding a job?
For the country's 9.6% unemployed, jobs remain elusive. The traditional tools available -- headhunters, temp agencies, referrals, even LinkedIn -- can sometimes be more tiresome than helpful. Hopeful job seekers can walk away even more frustrated at the end of MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 11, 2010 3:00 AM ETPosted in: employment, iPad, iPod, Javascript, LinkedIn, PayPal, social network, Software engineering -
PayPal's cashless utopia: Built on eBay's back
PayPal is working hard to become the gold standard for online payments, chasing down Google and fending off the competition. Meantime, being the apple of eBay's eye, and its subsidiary, hasn't hurt either.
By Dan Mitchell, contributor
This week, PayPal is hosting an event in New York called "Cashless Utopia." PayPal's aim is to usher us in to this utopia by establishing itself as the standard mechanism by which we pay for MORE
Nov 9, 2010 2:54 PM ET -
Yelp's COO: We want to be independent (for now)
Despite rumored bids from Google and Yahoo and lawsuits from disgruntled small businesses, Geoff Donaker says the popular listings service is right where it wants to be -- connecting with the young and affluent.
Over the last year, popular business listings site Yelp experienced several notable developments -- and not all of them were welcome. The company founded in 2004 by former PayPal employees Jeremy Stoppelman and Russell Simmons, now serves MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 12, 2010 11:56 AM ETPosted in: Chief operating officer, Geoff Donaker, Google, iPhone, Jeremy Stoppelman, Mobile, New York, PayPal, Yahoo, Yelp -
Today in Tech: News around the Web
A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
"If you bring something innovative to market, people will respond. I think it's going to do very well." -- AT&T CEO of Mobile Ralph de la MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 12, 2010 6:30 AM ETPosted in: Apple, AT&T, Bill Gates, Dick Costolo, Facebook, Gap, Gawker, IBM, Mark Zuckerberg, Melinda Gates, Mobile, Nick Denton, Oracle, Palm Pre, PayPal, Twitter, Windows Phone 7, Zynga -
Today in Tech: News around the Web
A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
"AMD is not for sale, but we are happy to listen to any proposal which is in the interest to our shareholders." -- Dirk Meyer on Oracle's MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 7, 2010 8:21 AM ET -
Twitter's Dorsey: Fixing credit cards with Square. Health records next?
With Square, the entrepreneur wants to bypass middlemen and empower small merchants. But can he revolutionize an industry wedded to decades of status quo?
When Jack Dorsey's friend, a glassmaker based in San Francisco, failed to sell one of his pieces on the street simply because he couldn't accept credit cards, he saw an opportunity. They invented Square, Dorsey's new company that transforms mobile device into a credit card readers, letting MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 4, 2010 2:52 PM ETPosted in: Credit card, credit cards, credit industry, iPhone, Jack Dorsey, New York City, PayPal, San Francisco, Square, Twitter -
Analysts like PayPal integration into Android Marketplace-
The move would be good for growth, but would be a major blow to Google's own Checkout service.
Late Friday, Bloomberg reported that PayPal and Google are in discussions to include PayPal as a payment option for Android applications. Google Android app purchases are currently done through Google Checkout, Google's own Paypal competitor that hasn't really taken off with consumers.
As an added benefit, developers would also be able to get paid MORE
Seth Weintraub - Aug 16, 2010 11:02 AM ET -
Google moves deeper into PayPal territory
Investment in payments provider Corduro would add service options to Google's Checkout system and extend Google's reach to retailers and micro-transactions.
Google updated its Ventures page last night to reveal several new investments in technology companies. One such investment is in online payment services company, Corduro.
Corduro's website advertises its expertise in: "Payment solutions for retail stores, teams & clubs, education costs, property management, mobile solutions, healthcare cost, fraternities & sororities, collections, MORE
Seth Weintraub - May 4, 2010 11:06 AM ET -
Yelp grows up
The site is making some changes, not to placate critics, but to prove they've been wrong all along. By Paul Smalera, senior editor
"Some businesses are never going to be happy with a paradigm that allows customers to comment, or makes them have to have to earn their content," Vince Sollitto of Yelp tells me
It's hard to argue. As Yelp has grown from fledgling start-up to critical mass website, serving over 30 MORE
Apr 9, 2010 5:25 PM ET
