Not just Apple, but apparently Amazon is interested in getting into the brick-and-mortar retail payments processing business, according to news reports. Read more »
Automatic Labs’ Link will get exposed to a much broader potential customer base thanks to a retail distribution deal with Amazon. The appliance establishes a connection between your car’s engine and… Read more »
Tablets prices have gone down, but adding cellular to your slate will still cost you a big premium. Thanks to some savvy radio choices, though, Verizon has kept the Ellipsis’s price… Read more »
Eight months after bringing its first LTE tower online, T-Mobile has managed to amp up its 4G service with new spectrum. But it’s biggest upgrade will come in 2014, when it… Read more »
Unlike the first installment of this series, Globalstar’s sequel may have a happy ending. Globalstar’s low-power Wi-Fi plans don’t have the interference problems of LightSquared’s LTE network. The FCC also let… Read more »
Apple has returned to its old habits of building a single device that can serve the entire world, but it’s still managed to stick a lot of LTE bands in its… Read more »
Verizon’s double-wide LTE network has made its first appearance in New York — spotted by a GigaOM reader. Clocking in at 80 Mbps, the network is already speedy, but it likely… Read more »
The wireless technology Amazon is testing is called TLPS, which is basically Wi-Fi on its own boutique band. If Amazon can get it to work, then it could connect to Kindles… Read more »
Since founding Amazon in 1994, Bezos has spread his cash around in areas as diverse as collaborative consumption (Uber and Airbnb) and healthcare (Qliance and ZocDoc). He even dropped money into… Read more »
Chicago-based Braintree has seen its e-commerce transaction volume grow 25 percent in less than four months, largely due to overseas growth. It has added Minecraft-creator Mojang to its growing roster of clients. Read more »