Square posted a largely successful fourth quarter that showed continuing growth with its Cash App — with users spending around $90 million on its Cash card in December, putting it on a potentially $1 billion run rate. That would offer anoth... Square’s bets beyond a register brought in $253M last year ...This entry was posted in Apps Earnings Enterprise Finance jack dorsey Mobile Square TC on February 27, 2018 by Matthew Lynley
Sonos One users in Canada can now join their peers south of the border in yelling requests at their connected speakers – a free update issued today enables Amazon Alexa on the Sonos One. The One launched with Alexa support in the U.S., but ... Sonos One’s Alexa support comes to CanadaThis entry was posted in Amazon amazon echo artificial intelligence California Gadgets hardware sonos TC on February 27, 2018 by Darrell Etherington
Just last week, AT&T announced the first handful of cities where it’ll roll out its 5G network later this year. Today at Mobile World Congress, T-Mobile and Sprint did the same. Sprint’s first 5G networks will go live in Chicago, ... These will be the first cities getting 5G from Sprint ...This entry was posted in Mobile TC on February 27, 2018 by Greg Kumparak
Just last week, AT&T announced the first handful of cities where it’ll roll out its 5G network later this year. Today at Mobile World Congress, T-Mobile and Sprint did the same. Sprint’s first 5G networks will go live in Chicago, ... These will be the first cities getting 5G from Sprint ...This entry was posted in Mobile TC on February 27, 2018 by Greg Kumparak
Doogee’s Mobile World Congress press conference is mostly what you’d expect from a company you’ve never heard of: small, low key, in the second basement meeting room at a hotel across from the convention center. It’s a bit... Chinese smartphone maker Doogee shows off its vision for the ...This entry was posted in hardware Mobile on February 27, 2018 by Brian Heater
Doogee’s Mobile World Congress press conference is mostly what you’d expect from a company you’ve never heard of: small, low key, in the second basement meeting room at a hotel across from the convention center. It’s a bit... Chinese smartphone maker Doogee shows off its vision for the ...This entry was posted in hardware Mobile on February 27, 2018 by Brian Heater
Facebook is trying to play extra nice with local news publishers by putting $3 million behind the launch of the Local News Subscriptions Accelerator. The three-month pilot program will help 10 to 15 U.S.-based metropolitan news organizations gain... Facebook launches a local news accelerator for publishersThis entry was posted in local news Mobile and tagged facebook google on February 27, 2018 by Megan Rose Dickey
German robotics firm Magazino, creator of robots meant to work alongside people in warehouses and the like, has raised $24.8 million to continue development and deployment of its TORU and SOTO robots. Read More Robo-logistics company Magazino raises $25M for its warehouse botsThis entry was posted in artificial intelligence Europe Gadgets robotics TC on February 27, 2018 by Devin Coldewey
An interesting reporton the Facebook ad machinery in play during the election highlighted an issue that I hadn’t considered: Facebook’s ad marketplace gave a huge pricing advantage to one candidate over the other. It seems like a no-b... Facebook should disclose and limit pricing for political campaign adsThis entry was posted in Advertising Tech Opinion Social TC and tagged facebook on February 27, 2018 by Devin Coldewey
Pinterest today is adding another executive to its upper c-suite with the hire of Francoise Brougher, who was most recently business lead at Square and prior to that VP of SMB global sales and operations at Google, as its first chief operating of... Pinterest hires former Square and Google exec Francoise Brougher as ...This entry was posted in Mobile Square Startups TC and tagged google pinterest on February 27, 2018 by Matthew Lynley