The Twitter mobile experience is getting infinitely noisier today. The information network is in the process of pumping up the volume on the amount of mobile advertising content it shows to users.
Twitter is adding Promoted Tweets, ads that double …
Duo Security, an authentication-as-a-service company that uses your phone for two-step logins, announced today it has raised $5 million in its second round of funding.
Duo Security uses your phone as a second line of defense to keep your accounts …
When Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake announced her new travel-note app Pinwheel earlier this month, the folks over at photo-sharing app Pinweel (no “h”) weren’t happy. In fact, the company even asked that she “cease any further or intended use of …
Shop at Home Depot stores and your home won’t be the only thing getting a renovation. The way you pay, thanks to an expanded partnership with payments provider PayPal, may never look the same.
In two weeks time, the home …
Not only is wholesale wireless network startup LightSquared dealing with a lack of support from U.S. regulators and financial difficulties, but now it’s also suffering from a lack of leadership.
Today the company announced Sanjiv Ahuja (pictured) has resigned his …
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt channeled famed futurists like Ray Kurzweil and Michio Kaku in his keynote at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today. What started as an overview of new features in Chrome for Android turned into a …
Apple’s heavily anticipated launch event (presumably) for the iPad 3 tablet will take place on Wednesday, March 7 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, according to an e-mail we just received from Apple.
The image …
Online food-ordering company Seamless has brought its ordering and menus to the iPad today — a move that hungry couch potatoes will likely applaud.
Seamless currently competes with smaller-but-still-potent startup GrubHub for online delivery and pickup order supremacy. Seamless’ last …
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It’s easy to think of mobile wallet solutions from companies Google, PayPal, and Isis as locked in a heated battle for the future of payments. But according to Michael Abbott, CEO of the mobile payments company Isis, that’s far from …
Sprint, Brightstar Corporation, eRecyclingCorps, ModusLink Global Solutions and the CDMA Development Group are teaming up to create the Device Renewal Forum, a group that will encourage the recycling and reuse of cellphones and set technical standards for refurbished devices.
Most …
Three security startups caught our eye at the RSA Conference here in San Francisco today. Impermium, Pindrop Security, and MokaFive all showed off their technology as part of the conference’s Innovation Sandbox competition for startups.
10 startups got the chance …
AT&T is planning to launch a new service allowing content providers and developers to pay for their customers’ data usage, thus lowering the expensive data charges for some of its wireless subscribers.
Essentially, big companies like Comcast (owner of NBCUniversal) …
A Nokia phone with a 41 megapixel camera may sound insane, but honestly, that’s my kind of crazy. Nokia announced the 808 PureView today at the Mobile World Congress, and all of a sudden the previously unknown phone running a …
The application Windows Phone owners have been anticipating for eight months and counting has finally arrived — but it’s nothing to call home about yet.
Skype, as expected, has finally released a beta version of its application for Windows Phone …
Google’s incredibly popular Android mobile operating system is now seeing more than 850,000 phone activations every day, writes Google Senior VP Andy Rubin on a company blog today.
“Each and every day, we are humbled by the trajectory of Android …
PlayHaven, a real-time mobile marketing startup that has enabled a four-fold increase in in-app purchases for its game developer customers, is adding new monetization features that will help developers make even more money.
PlayHaven’s new monetization features use analytics and …
National electronics retail chain Best Buy has dropped the price of Apple’s iPad 2 tablet computer by $50 on all models today.
The timing of Best Buy’s sale may be yet another indication that the world’s most valuable company is …
After a few years of losing dominance in the Android phone arena, HTC is on a new mission to add sex appeal and unique features to top-notch phones in hopes of stealing some love from Samsung and Motorola. Enter the …
Carrier payments — the ability to make mobile purchases that get charged directly to your cellular bill — are convenient for consumers, but for many merchants they can be a raw deal thanks to the big revenue bite carriers often …
When streaming video service Vimeo launched brand-new Android and Windows Phone applications in early January, the company teased that it was also working on a major update for iOS so it could support the iPad. Now that wait is finally …
