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Ron Conway is a Silicon Valley startup's best friend

The prolific angel investor has rarely met an Internet startup he didn't like. When it comes to picking the next big thing, there's a right way and a wrong way. And then there's the Conway.

FORTUNE -- The rooftop deck of Ron Conway's San Francisco apartment building is packed with a random and seemingly incongruous assortment of tech A-listers, celebrities, and sports stars snacking on hors d'oeuvres and sipping fine wines. MORE

Today in Tech: Netflix signs exclusive Dreamworks deal

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* Netflix (NFLX) signed a deal with Dreamworks (DWA) that will allow the streaming service to exclusively serve up new movies as well as older content to users in 2013. The company reportedly outbid HBO -- Dreamsworks' previous home content supplier -- by paying an estimated $30 million per film. (GigaOm)

* Michael Arrington explains the MORE

The trillion-dollar question: Who will power your mobile wallet?

Telecoms, banks, financial giants and startups -- plus Google and Apple -- are all scrambling to outflank and out-innovate each other in the mobile payments field.

By Stacy Cowley, CNNMoney tech editor

FORTUNE -- If you want to get a smackdown going, throw together five executives each angling for a lucrative piece of a $4 trillion market.

The retail payments space is one of tech's hottest battlefields. The reigning technology, magnetic stripes on MORE

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

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

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

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

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

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

Today in Tech: what's new in iOS 4.3, LivingSocial's Fandango deal

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Army private Bradley Manning (right), the soldier who reportedly gave WikiLeaks 500,000-plus classified materials like video of a Baghdad helicopter air strike in which 12 people were killed, faces 22 additional charges that accuse him of aiding the enemy. Though such charges could mean the death penalty MORE