Many of the biggest stories in the connected consumer space occurred mostly offstage in 2012. Apple conducted behind-the-scenes discussions about rolling out new media services in 2013 and beyond. Google spent… Read more »
Square, the high-profile mobile payments company started by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, has yet to launch outside the U.S. But in the meantime, a… Read more »
Stockholm-based iZettle — a company that is building a payments system not entirely unlike the much-heralded Square — is taking a big step forwards today by coming out of beta. The… Read more »
We are still far from seeing simple, wave-and-pay NFC as a ubiquitous technology for mobile payments, and even further from seeing consumers… Read more »
Are mobile payments the new speech recognition technologies? One of the bigger stories in mobile this year has been the growing investment a… Read more »
Location-based marketing still suffers from user-privacy issues, user awareness and a lack of extensive local advertising networks. But the combination of GPS-enabled location pinpointing and the embrace of social networks has… Read more »
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: More confirmation of the iPhone 5 being smaller and thinner; some doubt cast on Square’… 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 »