A little more state-specific financial regulatory hot water for Square, the hot mobile commerce startup: it has been fined $507,000 by Florida’s Office of Financial Regulation for operating a payment service without a money transmission license. This looks like the second time that a U.S. state financial regulator has gone after the company, after Square […]
Posted on August 17th, 2013 by admin
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Posted on August 16th, 2013 by admin
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Gigwalk, until now an iPhone-only service, has launched an Android version of its app, which posts crowdsourced jobs for the mobile workforce marketplace. Now the 400,000 Android users who had signed up in anticipation can now go out and get some work. The app comes as the company continues on its tear, growing 300 percent in the last year […]
Posted on August 16th, 2013 by admin
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Gigwalk has a new Android app that 400,000 people have signed up to use so they can get temporary work for doing all the jobs that come to the crowdsourced mobile workforce marketplace. The app come as the company continues on its tear, growing 300 percent in the last year with 320.000 people in its […]
Posted on August 15th, 2013 by admin
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Siasto has received some more support to build out its task management service with $750,000 from One Asia Investment Partners, Y Combinator, Start Fund and other angel investors. Siasto has developed a robust platform that TechCrunch’s Eric Eldon wrote about in detail last year. Last November, the company added a news feed to the service. With the […]
Posted on August 10th, 2013 by admin
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Former SAP Mobile Chief Sanjay Poonen has been hired to run VMware’s end-user business, a move that will help to shore up the virtualization company’s executive ranks after a long run of high-profile departures. Poonen will join VMware as an executive vice president and general manager to run the business group that is home to […]
Posted on August 7th, 2013 by admin
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Last month, LinkedIn introduced the ability for users of its social network for the working world to search for jobs via its iOS and Android mobile apps. Now it will let jobseekers seal the deal, so to speak: from today, users will start to be able to actually apply for those jobs via the apps […]
Posted on August 6th, 2013 by admin
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One of the complaints I often hear from VCs here in Silicon Valley is that there just aren’t enough enterprise mobility startups. Clearly, with employees bringing their own devices to work in lieu of company issued Blackberries and Apple now dominating the enterprise tablet market with 88 percent of activations, there’s a market opportunity here. […]
Posted on July 28th, 2013 by admin
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The consumerization of IT has wrought profound security issues and changes on how and where employees work. To unerstand the magnitude of this transformation, consider these statistics: 3 out of 5 workers say they no longer need to be in the office to be productive. The average mobile worker is now carrying 3.5 devices, up […]
Posted on July 19th, 2013 by admin
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Reputation.com, the online identity and privacy startup, has bought PaperKarma, a mobile app built to help users identify and then stop spammy snail mail. In a letter to users (embedded below), PaperKarma’s founders Sean Mortazavi and Brendan Ribera say that the app will continue to work as before; but Reputation.com notes that it will also […]
Posted on July 3rd, 2013 by admin
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