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Square made its new and improved card reader official today. Now business users can expect a reader with a new design that’s thinner and more accurate when it comes to swiping transactions. The new reader is much thinner than its predecessor, so much so that it’s 45 percent thinner than its older brethren. Square’s reader will…
Apple hits another milestone as its U.S. iTunes App Store has surpassed the 1 million applications mark, according Appsfire. This news shows Apple now has just as much apps as it does globally. What was also determined by the analytic company Appsfire was Apple now has 473,000 applications optimized for use on the iPad. The…
Foursquare just keeps getting better and better. The popular location-based mobile app has rolled out a new update that better fits Apple’s iOS 7 user interface. Version 7.0 brings a slew of brand new features to the forefront, including more proactive recommendations. Once you launch the application on your iPhone you’ll notice a significant change…
AT&T today announced its answer to T-Mobile’s off-contract pricing plans with “Mobile Share Value.” As of December 8, the revamped share plan will give subscribers a discount on service if they’re not on a hardware contract. But of course, with AT&T nothing is simple; the company has found another way to mess around with their…
Moments ago we told you about Uber’s leaked financial report that showed the company exceeding its original projected numbers. Now the taxi hailing service has confirmed that the report showing its revenue estimates is in fact true. Funny thing is, the company was forced to come clean on the estimates once it got out to…
Uber, the popular on demand car service, is on track to record $210 million in revenue for 2013 on over $1 billion in rides, while also adding close to 80,000 new clients a week and growing its active clients to over 450,000, according to Gawker. This news comes after the taxi hailing service brought in…
The financial markets gasped in disbelief when it first heard that Verizon Wireless was in fact buying the remaining half of its company from U.K. telecom-giant Vodafone. The two companies agreed on an astonishing sum of $130 billion. The buy is closing relatively soon as regulators expect completion of the deal sometime in the first…
Amazon is giving away cloud storage with the purchase of a slew of popular Android handsets. The e-commerce giant is offering 50GB of free storage during this holiday shopping season, allowing folks to use the the memory for 12 months no charge. This deal will run through its wireless phone section, so it includes phones…
Owners of the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4 should rejoice as an update is coming your way. Magenta has put out all the detailed information about the latest Android 4.3 firmware to hit the Samsung flagship handset. Updates starting going out to phones early this morning around 5am by way of over-the-air. Inside the new…
Today BBM Channels is finally shedding the beta tag, and bringing its version of feed-based social networking to all BlackBerry users. In a few hours, BlackBerry 10 and classic BlackBerry OS devices will be able to use the new service for themselves; a service that allows users to subscribe to content feeds from both major providers and…