The tablets and smartphones are continuing to disrupt many old businesses and at the same time creating new opportunities. Retail outlets and hospitality industry are next frontiers for these devices, as… 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 »
Richard Branson is no stranger to investing in mobile media: among his more notable moves have been establishing *Virgin Mobile* years ago,… 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 »
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 »
It’s still very early days for mobile payments, but with operators, handset makers and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) jumping on the NFC bandwagon, the… Read more »
Jack Dorsey’s Square, Incase, Verifone and now Mophie — these companies have developed credit card readers and are turning the iPhone/iPod touch platform into a new kind of economic engine. All… Read more »