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Spotify has just sent out an invitation for an event simply dubbed “What’s next for Spotify?” that’s due to take place on November 30th in New York City. The CEO, Daniel Ek (pictured above, left), will be there, along with “special guests”. So what do these guys have up their sleeve? After launching their service…
Mobile payments company CHARGE Anywhere launched a mobile app for BlackBerry 7 devices, allowing merchants to process payments while on the go. What’s more, their solution also works with gift and loyalty cards, effectively turning compatible smartphone into a fully functional point-of-sale terminal. If you haven’t heard of CHARGE Anywhere before, here’s what you should…
First of all you should know Xoom.com has nothing to do with Motorola’s Android tablet. Rather it’s a money transfer service that allows users quickly to beam money from one end of the world to the other. Up until this point you needed a desktop-class browser (or a PC/Mac) to do that via Xoom.com and…
While Google is ruling most of the world, Yahoo is still the number one destination in Japan. The web portal is trying to additionally monetize its leading position and has recently launched an Android app store for users in the Land of the rising Sun. At the moment, Yahoo’s app store doesn’t provide direct downloads,…
Sprint has just announced it’s moving away from offering unlimited plans for all devices but phones starting today. The shift will take the form of new tiered data plans that are in-line with what’s available for AT&T and Verizon. Sprint will be issuing 6GB for $50 per month and 12 GB for $80 per month…
Sprint-owned Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile USA are each launching a Deployed Military Program to allow service men and women to keep their accounts and phone numbers intact while deployed overseas. When a customer wants to participate in the program, they simply contact Boost or Virgin Mobile Customer Care and will then be directed to…
It wasn’t that long ago when we told you YouMail surpassed 1 billion calls answered. Now the company announced a new milestone, surpassing of 3 million organic downloads. What’s more, they can boast having had 75 million distinct callers interact with the company’s service at one point or another. But that’s not all, YouMail also…
Finnish company Axel Technologies has obviously been busy in its Labs, and has cooked up some cool new TV and video applications for consumers to use: Fuugo Video 1.0, which is available as a free download from the Android Market and fuugo.tv, aggregates various content services, such as Break.com and YouTube, making it easy to…
AT&T is teaming-up with Intuit to provide small business with a simple solution for accepting credit and debit card payments while on the go. The two companies collaborated to offer Intuit GoPayment for AT&T, an easy-to-use mobile application and Square-like credit card reader to anyone with an iOS and Android-based device who needs to accept…
While the rest of the world checks-in with apps like Foursquare, Facebook Places and Gowalla – China has its own mobile social location-based service called Jiepang. The company is now teaming up with Starbucks to allow coffee drinkers to win some cool badges and real awards for checking in at more than 200 Starbucks stores…