Braintree, the quiet payment processing force behind many of the hottest startups, has been pushing hard on mobile payments, which has been the fastest-growing part of its business. Now, in effort to continue that momentum and take on established players like PayPal, it’s announced it will pay $26.2 million for payment startup Venmo, according...
Always-on complex devices and sensors, all produced by different manufacturers, connecting via different broadband technologies now need to interact with one another to serve needs for security, home automation and entertainment. How will these devices be controlled and managed in the coming years? Get the full story at GigaOM’s Mobilize 2012. Just one of...
Swarm.fm is the latest music-themed app to hit Spotify‘s burgeoning platform, having secured first prize at Spotify’s Music Apps Hack Weekend earlier this year. The premise behind Swarm.fm is simple – it taps Facebook’s Open Graph to surface music activity from your friends, and makes it instantly playable inside Spotify. You can browse through...
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If part of the game in streaming music is to have the biggest catalog of tracks, then today Rdio made a significant move to turn its volume up to Spotify levels, and gain some street cred with indie fans in the process: it announced two key deals with CD Baby and TuneCore, both independent...
Well, the experiment worked. A Swedish design firm called Day4 set out to demonstrate how easily false information could turn into news online, and boy was it successful. The company produced a mock-up image of a screw with an asymmetrical head, ostensibly designed by Apple to prevent users from tinkering with their devices. After...
Nokia’s Chris Weber sure seems to be a feisty mood. The company’s EVP of Sales and Marketing took to his sporadically-used Twitter account presumably in an attempt to build some buzz around Nokia and Microsoft’s upcoming press conference, and this is what he came up with: “Samsung take note, next generation Lumia coming soon....
On Wednesday, the Authors Guild, publishers Penguin and Macmillan, and Apple filed their opposition to the Department of Justice’s proposed ebook pricing settlement with Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon Schuster. I covered Apple’s response yesterday. Here’s a summary of the filings from Penguin, Macmillan and the Authors Guild. Like Apple, Penguin and Macmillan are fighting...
Digital music subscription service Rdio has increased its music catalog to over 18 million songs thanks to what it calls ‘landmark’ deals with indie music sellers CD Baby and TuneCore, the Spotify competitor announced this morning. Before the deals, Rdio said it had 15 million songs in its catalog. U.S.-based competitor Rhapsody claims “over...
Ted Griggs, the founder of telephony startup Ribbit, which eventually sold to BT for $105 million, built his first product around offering a platform that developers could build upon. Now, he’s trying to take the same idea to HTML5 gaming with the launch of Goko, an HTML5 gaming platform that allows developers to create,...