Here at GigaOM HQ, we’re gearing up for our inaugural GigaOM RoadMap Conference on Nov. 10. Over the course of the one-day event, we’re featuring 20 innovators who are shaping the… Read more »
How do you make amends with a development community after taking away some of their tools and rendering at least a few of their products unusable? Try offering them the keys… Read more »
After having a YouTube Q&A and a Facebook session, the Obama administration upped the ante with a Twitter town hall on Wednesday. While it wasn’t exactly a dramatic step towards transparency… Read more »
The game is on for mobile payments. Square has announced that it has picked up $100 million in a third round of funding, which now values th… Read more »
One thing is clear: Investors love Square, the payments company co-founded by Jack Dorsey, the co-creator of Twitter. The veteran venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is leading… Read more »
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is leaving the company to join former CEO Evan Williams and former lead developer Jason Goldman in a new venture called Obvious. For the team that helped… Read more »
While the big players in the payments industry haggle over the best way to turn mobile phones into credit cards, Square is doubling down on… Read more »
Not two years after introducing the world to its little mobile credit card reader, Square is looking to write the obituary for the modern cash register–along with every location-based, daily deal… Read more »
The word is that once upon a time, eBay’s PayPal tried to buy Jack Dorsey’s Square. Today, the company announced that it is buying small Boston-based mobile-payment startup Fig Card. It… Read more »
It has been a magical few months for Instagram, a mobile photo-sharing startup. It has grown from nothing to more than 3.2 million users, and raised $7 million in funding. In… Read more »