Kat's Money Corner: Buy back-to-school supplies now
Kansas City Star
For tech-savvy savers, consider using your smartphone to help you get the best deals.Apps like Amazon Price Check and The Find make comparison-shopping easy. ... else from this post, please remember one thing – start shopping now. ... For more financialchatter, click http://twitter.com/savinmavens.
Alibaba Is Investing Huge Sums in an Array of US Tech Companies
New York Times
In March, Alibaba made a $215 million investment in Tango, a messaging app. It recently contacted Snapchat, another messaging app that this year ...
For Alibaba, a challenge is to turn mobile into money
Yahoo News UK
"Our strategic investments and acquisitions may affect our future financial results, ... By tying JD.com's online shopping into WeChat, Tencent has begun ... Its search app is widely pre-installed on Chinese smartphones, allowing the ...
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Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales up 23% to $19.34 Billion
Wall Street Journal
Fire phone is the only smartphone with Dynamic Perspective and Firefly. ... Since Fire phone launched, the rate of app submissions to the Amazon .... affect Amazon.com'sfinancial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the ... Customer reviews, 1-Clickshopping, personalized recommendations, ...
Advocates for blind, deaf want more from Apple
Yahoo Finance UK
As digital life increasingly moves to the world of smartphones and tablets, some ... Many disabled advocates believe federal law requires that apps be ...
Here is The First Batch of Android Wear Apps
Morning News USA
... app, which you can download today on your Android (4.3+) smartphone, ... Thomson Reuters, Person Capital Finance, Allthecooks Recipes, Pinterest, .... “The online customershopping experience will be redefined through 3D ...
Beauty gets a high-tech makeover
Upstart
... system for stylists, has become one of the leaders among the growing cluster of beauty and fashionsmartphone apps coming out of San Francisco.
From Obamacare to Marks & Spencer: when websites go wrong
The Guardian
Finance director Alan Stewart bravely insisted that "It is a bit like going to the ... It's no longer just about online shopping, as it was in 2012. ... Even among the over-55s, more than one in four now own a smartphone and ... from the mobile web to apps – a category that was significantly smaller in 2012.
Amazon's spending spree raises margin concerns
Yahoo News UK
The company has also unveiled a subscription book service, a TV streaming-box, and the "Fire" smartphone - all of which required investment.
The Morning Download: Growth Forecast for Collaborative, Social Enterprise Is Slashed
Wall Street Journal (blog)
... for retailers to providing inventory visibility across all shopping channels, ... Finance chief Tom Szkutak said pricing cuts to cloud-computing services in its ... embedding the service into the Facebook Messenger app, Re/code reports. ... The company puts chips in most of China's 4G smartphones.
The Morning Ledger: The World Cup of Corporate Earnings
Wall Street Journal (blog)
s mobile division, J.K. Shin, is facing pressure as weakening phone sales propel ... Snapchat Inc. is in discussions to raise a new round of financing from ... could value the mobile-messaging app at about $10 billion, the WSJ reports.