In the midst of celebrating its new look, Uber also has puppies on its mind. Today (Feb. 3), the ridesharing service is offering the delivery of puppies to users in Chicago, D.C., Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix and San Francisco. As explained in an...
It’s been a busy month for Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook and its WhatsApp messaging app. First, the company decided to flip its subscription model and drop the $1 charge, instead moving toward its ad-based business model. Now, the messaging app has hit another major milestone: the billion...
In the stock market, as in the dictionary, Alphabet comes before Apple — perhaps not forever but for now. As the investing world anticipated, shares of Google parent company Alphabet soared on the news that the company had bested expected results, with total revenues up 17...
Just a few hours to go until we find out if Alphabet (Google) has done right by investors by sinking tons of money into new, unproven and, at times, seemingly fanciful ventures. The earnings report slated for this afternoon has Wall Street waiting with bated...
While beacons are getting plenty of attention behind the scenes, there’s no doubt that they’ve ceded the spotlight to other disruptive and emerging technologies. The story of the tortoise and the hare hasn’t endured this long without holding some truth to it, though, and some...
After almost a decade of predictions from preeminent analysts on the rapidly forthcoming ignition of mobile payments that never quite panned out, at least one thing seems to have been proven conclusively true: The prospect of using smartphones to enable commerce in both the online...
Of the dozens of movements that have shaped modern technology, cloud-based platforms and mobile app development can’t be counted out of that group. However, developers who rely on one of the more popular remote-hosted services out there are soon to be out of luck. Kevin...
Ride-hailing app company GrabTaxi has rebranded itself as Grab to reflect its market growth and dominance, the company announced. The change comes as the Singapore-based company ventured into multiple operations, such as providing taxi-based rides (GrabTaxi), private cars (GrabCar), motorbike rides (GrabBike), carpooling services (GrabHitch) and...
In a bright spot amid the payments industry’s earnings landscape, Visa put up Q1 numbers on Thursday (Jan. 28) that were better than expected, at least on the bottom line. The company said it earned $0.69 a share, on an adjusted basis, a penny better...
