Verizon’s planned bid to buy Vodafone out of their joint venture has run into a rather substantial price disagreement. According to Verizon, Vodafone’s 45% stake in Verizon Wireless is worth $100 billion, whilst Vodafone claims that the stake is worth more than $130 billion. Vodafone’s execs claim that selling their stake could result in a $10 billion…
Google has released its new ‘Places for Business’ app for iPhone and iPod touch. The service allows business owners to manage their business across services such as Google Search, Google Maps, and Google+. Business owners will be able to verify business listings directly from their iPhone, update business information, such as working hours, address,…
The “platform wars” that is iOS vs Android can be looked at in many ways. One of them being “Who makes more money?” and another being “Who has more marketshare?” Well, depending on which side you look at will determine what answer you get. Look at it from the marketshare point of view, or as some (including myself) will say, Android’s over-saturation of the…
As you are surely aware by now, Apple and Google have been in lawsuits all around the world. Not between those two companies specifically, but on their own. However, indirectly these two technology giants have met through the form of Apple vs. Motorola cases, seeing as Motorola is now owned by Google. In a report from Bloomberg, U.S. District Judge Robert…
For those of you unfamiliar with Quickoffice, this Google-branded application basically helps subscribers of Google Apps for Business manage their cross-platform productivity applications. Quickoffice users can access and edit Microsoft Office applications while saving compatible versions of the files to Google Drive, making it much easier to network…
Square is a specialist in mobile digital payment, and has today announced an awesome “Business in a Box” kit. Aimed at small business owners, the $299 solution will give you an alternative to a traditional cash register, utilizing an iPad (not included) and two Square readers. Included in the kit are the Square readers, a Heckler Design WindFall iPad stand,…
Despite BlackBerry having just announced and launched the new BB10 OS and the Z10, large companies and government agencies are seemingly in one mind about which manufacturer’s devices are the best bet in the long run: Apple. The iPhone has seen a tremendous uptake in enterprise over the past couple of years. BlackBerry’s slip down the pecking order has…
Although Apple’s last quarter of 2012 has been named by many experts as “disappointing”, it still turned over record profit, making it the most profitable quarter for any technology company in history. In total, Apple made an incredible $13.1 billion, meaning the company has quite a lot of room between the USA’s second-most profitable business in Q4 2012,…
Foursquare for Business is the social network’s latest venture, aimed at managers of businesses. The application acts like a personal assistant to attend to the user’s business, allowing them to view visitors and tips, track analytics and much more. The application also allows the user to activate and deactivate specials, however, as TNW points out, this…
We often see odd business schemes from Chinese teenagers trying to fund Apple products. We’ve seen a kidney sold for an iPad 2, and college girl trying to trade sex for an iPhone 4S, but now what’s possibly the weirdest plan has emerged from the southeast Chinese city of Xiamen, where a teenage girl has been selling hugs so that she can buy Apple’s…
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