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Mobile operator Orange’s audacious Libon project gets increasingly interesting as the years go by, and now it’s added a fresh take on mobile messaging into the mix – just hours after Facebook announced its acquisition of one of the major players in the field, WhatsApp. Having started off as a Visual
China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd is in talks to combine its e-commerce business with rival online retailer JD.com, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing two anonymous sources familiar with the matter. The companies are considering several options, including Tencent getting a 6 percent stake in JD
Strevus, a provider of cutting-edge, relationship-driven risk and compliance management solutions for financial service institutions, today announced that it received $5.6M in Series A funding led by Blumberg Capital and with participation from U.S. Venture Partners and existing Angel investors. Str
A US district court has granted the first preliminary injunction against Aereo out of the patchwork of lawsuits against the company, handing broadcasters their first clear win ahead of a Supreme Court fight. A decision by Judge Dale A. Kimball of the District Court of Utah on Wednesday granted a pre
Last month during CES 2014 we saw the Asus PadFone Mini, a smaller version of the company’s PadFone Infinity product, and now we’re being treated to a full-sized PadFone Infinity Lite, which just broke cover today. The device was first spotted by Sogi.com, which said Asus officially announced it in
Companies that can make the enterprise space feel more secure about transferring its data to a platform it has less control over are going to thrive, and, already, a few of them have been trying to be at the forefront, including Apprity a cloud security company that says it has a new way of protecti
A plan by the Department of Homeland Security to establish a national license-plate recognition database to collect information from commercial and law enforcement tag readers has been abruptly canceled after concerns were raised over privacy and how the data might be scrutinized. Homeland Security
Tinder users could have had their near-exact location revealed for more than two months last year while a flaw in the app remained unfixed. The flaw, which has since been patched, could have allowed a hacker to triangulate a user’s location to within 100 feet. Utilizing the flaw meant knowing
Steve Perlman, the creator of the defunct game-streaming service OnLive, claims he has the answer to slow wireless service. pWave is a new type of wireless antenna that creates a miniature “bubble” of wireless connectivity around every device, solving congestion even in busy areas like s
There are seemingly dozens of companies trying to get in on the mobile payment space. Google Wallet was among the first to hit mainstream, though the company hasn’t done particularly well establishing partnerships with mobile carriers to get it off the ground. ISIS is an option supported by T-Mobile
Venmo, the popular mobile payments app developed by the eBay/PayPal company of the same name, has just debuted a new feature called Nearby Payments. The new feature does exactly what its name says: it allows you to pay people near you. With Nearby Payments in the new version of Venmo, you don’
Square is debuting a special-edition reader in partnership with AIDS organization (RED). The new ‘SQUA(RED) Reader’ is red in color, and for every order via the device, 97.25 percent of the $10 donation amount will go to the fund to fight AIDS. When consumers swipe their cards on a (RED), custo
