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More Probing From The SEC and EU for MoMo, Groupon
You’d probably think that in this day and age, giant tech companies can pretty much do whatever they want, like acquire other companies, or alter their terms of service. But no, there are regulators who constantly keep an eye on them to make sure that their actions won’t harm consumers, disrupt the balance of the ...
Will Apple Release the iPhone 5 in June?
Today’s mobile roundup features the EU antitrust probe on Motorola Mobility, iPhone 5 in June, more news regarding the Android platform and more. iPhone 5 by June? During an interview in a Japanese TV show, a Foxconn recruiter let slip that they are now hiring more workers in preparation for the June launch of the iPhone 5. ...
Global Payments Loses Visa Support After Hack
Another data breach in the online payments world, this one resulting in Global Payments losing its Visa certification. Global Payments Inc., the provider of electronic transaction processing services for merchants, ISOs, financial institutions, government agencies and multi-national corporations, announced last Friday that their system had been hacked. In their most recent update, the company identified ...
April Fool’s In Tech: Nokia Makes an Ice Phone, Apple Buys Microsoft for $300 Billion
April 1st is famous all over the world as April Fool’s Day – the day when playing tricks and hoaxes are welcomed with open minds and paid with laughs. Well, that goes for most pranks. The tradition of playing tricks on people on April 1st doesn’t have a clear beginning. Some say it originated in ...
Ashton Kutcher Takes Another Dead Guy’s Role in Steve Jobs Movie
Today’s mobile roundup features Ashton Kutcher’s role in the upcoming biopic of Steve Jobs, the controversial Girls Around Me app, BlackBerry fans uniting and more. Ashton Kutcher to play Steve Jobs in upcoming biopic He’s taken over Twitter and even Charlie Sheen’s show Two and a Half Men. Now Ashton Kutcher’s taking on Steve Jobs ...
The Pentagon Banks on Big Data for Cybersecurity
The United States Department of Defense, loosely referred to as “the Pentagon” because of their headquarters designed like a pentagon, is primarily in charge of national security. We often think of them as uniformed men and women ready to defend the country at all costs. But the Pentagon not only covers physical national security, they’re ...
The Millennial Media Timeline: A Mobile Road to Success
On March 28 Millennial Media, the cross-platform mobile advertising company, announced the pricing of their initial public offering of 10.2 million shares of common stock at a price to the public of $13 per share. They started trading yesterday, March 29, and shares nearly doubled on their debut. From the original $13 per share, trading closed ...
Google To Sell Self-Branded Tablet
Today’s mobile roundup features Google’s plan on selling their own tablet, Apple’s $15 refund for the iPhone 4 antennagate, and more. The Google Tablet There are a lot of OEMs running on Google’s Android platform. Google doesn’t really get paid for this, but they get their revenue through ads. So instead of always being a ...
Dell’s Bad Luck with Smartphones: A Brief History
Dell’s dropping two more smartphones from its lineup, throwing in the towel on the Venue and Venue Pro. The hardware maker announced that they will be discontinuing the production in the US, stating mobile products have a shorter lifespan compared to desktops and laptops, where they will be refocusing their efforts. It’s not the first ...
eBay Gets New President, Spurs Spending Sprees Worldwide
eBay Inc has named David Marcus as the president of their PayPal division. Marcus replaced Scott Thompson who left in January to become Yahoo! Inc.’s chief executive. Effective Monday, Marcus will be reporting directly to Chief Executive John Donahoe. Prior to this, Marcus was already leading PayPal’s mobile payments business. Donahoe stated on PayPal’s blog post that ...