Steve Kovach, Business Insider If you have a smartphone, you know how important apps are to the experience. Apps make our phones personal, more useful, and fun. Maybe I take my apps a bit more seriously than most because I write about them everyday. But I also try a lot of apps out—which makes...
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Business Insider PayPal helped create one of the most notable groups of entrepreneurs of all time, a huge concentration of success nicknamed the ‘PayPal Mafia,’ which includes Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, YouTube’s Chad Hurley, Reid Hoffman, Yelp’s Jeremy Stoppelman and many others. At an interview at Business Insider’s IGNITION 2012 conference, Business Insider Deputy Editor...
PayPal has released its final batch of Cyber Monday numbers and they’re up big in the mobile payment space. The site saw a 190% increase in global mobile payment volume compared to 2011 and had 44% more payment volume overall. Early reports had put the increase at 196% for mobile volume, but it looks like it...
Multiple investment banks have contacted Sony about assisting in the sale of the beleaguered electronics maker’s battery unit, Reuters reports. Sony has been in the throes of a dramatic corporate overhaul over the past year, and its battery business, which it estimates is worth $633 million, would make a lot of sense for cutting...
Earlier tonight, reports began rolling in of a serious breach in Google accounts security. Some sort of glitch has granted access to Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics and perhaps even more tools to users who previously had access, but then had that access revoked. This means that ex-employees or contractors which formerly had access to...
There’s a lot of talk in Silicon Valley about the decline of consumer Internet companies and the rising interest in companies that sell software to enterprises. After all, Zynga and Groupon, the darlings of the consumer wave, have tanked. Facebook’s stock collapse robbed the company of some of its sparkle. And suddenly all those...
The Gmail team announced Tuesday that a wonderful new button is coming to Gmail’s new compose window. You can now attach files to a message using Google Drive, meaning you can send files as large as 10GB over email. Remember when you couldn’t send video or audio files because of attachment size limits? That’s...
Google and other search companies are under siege in various nations from news publishers and their lobbyists trying to establish more control over content. New laws and industry association walk-outs are challenging aggregators’ ability to display excerpts of news stories within search results, which could have far-reaching effects. Google’s Three-Front Battle: Germany, Brazil, France...
We already know mobile is a big and rapidly growing industry, but research firm IHS iSuppli has painted a picture of just how expansive mobile communications has become. This year mobile equipment revenues globally will be $374 million, and in the space of three years wireless devices and infrastructure will be a half-trillion-dollar industry,...