Showing posts with label Starbucks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Starbucks. Show all posts

Friday, August 10, 2012

Square's Starbucks Deal Puts It At The Epicenter Of 'Seismic Change' Away From Cash - and my own links overview

Tech businesses are always making news - happily for me because this is a technology blog. Who're we focusing on now?

One hot conversation starter is Samsung Group and Android. Let's see shall we?
- Apple Inc. Accuses Samsung of Copying Even Application Icons from www.eweek.com
- Apple vs. Samsung: The Trial Goes On, but It's Already Over from techland.time.com
- Android Dominates In Q2 Thanks To Samsung from www.webpronews.com

What else is there? Well, there's Starbucks and United States:
- Square's Starbucks Deal Puts It At The Epicenter Of 'Seismic Change' Away From Cash from techcrunch.com
- Starbucks Should Help Push Square Further Into The Mainstream from www.webpronews.com
- Pay With Square at Starbucks: The Biggest Moment Yet for Mobile-Phone Wallets from techland.time.com





Microsoft and Dell were mentioned a good deal too:
- Microsoft Has Strong Reasons to Induce Users to Adopt Windows 8 Tiled UI - "Tech news Web sites and blogs have been buzzing the last few dayswith news that Microsoft is going to block Windows 8 users from bootingdirectly to their desktop without having to use the tiled start screen" - said www.eweek.com

To finish up why don't we take a quick look at Gmail and Twitter.
- Google: 100 Billion Searches Per Month, Search To Integrate Gmail, Launching Enhanced Search App For iOS - "Google has announced that a new "field trial"of Gmail results within Google Search results is available, a Google Now-like Google Voice Search app for the iPhone and the iPad is coming in a few days and the Knowledge Graph is going worldwide for English searchers" - said searchengineland.com



















Friday, July 13, 2012

HP, Lenovo, Acer Lead Slowing PC Market - as well as my own blog posts synopsis

The world of tech is always moving. Let's take a look at which companies have been making news.

In our first little group, why don't we check out the websites taking about Starbucks and Canada:
- Starbucks For Android Brings Mobile Payments To Canada & U.K., Now Supports PayPal from techcrunch.com
- Now Android Users Can Pay For Their Starbucks With PayPal from www.webpronews.com

Small business has been getting a lot of press as well:
- Small Businesses Increasingly Turn To Small Banks For Loans: Report from www.huffingtonpost.com
- Small Business Optimism Slides in June: NFIB from www.eweek.com

Next on the list are Market share and United States.
- HP, Lenovo, Acer Inc. Lead Slowing PC Market - "Lenovos shipment growth continued to exceed the worldwide average, narrowing the market share gap with HPLenovos worldwide market share now stands at 14.7 percent, a nearly 15 percent increase compared with the second quarter of 2011" - said www.eweek.com
- Google, Bing Hit All-Time Highs In June Search Market Share [comScore] - searchengineland.com

Anything else? Well, DirecTV and MTV were in the media a fair bit:
- Viacom Fires Back at DirecTV With VH1 Style Pop-Up Video - "DirecTV customers lost access to Viacom channels such as MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and more on Tuesday at midnight ET after the two media giants couldn't reach a deal on programming fees" - said mashable.com
- DirecTV Spat Results In Takedown Of Full-Length Viacom Shows For Everyone Online - techcrunch.com