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Square Starts Mobile Payments In Japan, Its First Country Outside Of North America, In Partnership With Visa's Ally -
Mobile payment platform Square has announced that it is now publicly available in Japan, its first country outside of North America.TechCrunch 4 hours ago:
OtterBox Acquires Rival Protective Case Maker LifeProof After Settling Patent Lawsuit -
OtterBox, which makes the top-selling protective case for smartphones, has announced the acquisition of LifeProof for an undisclosed amount.TechCrunch 5 hours ago:
Samsung Galaxy S4 Shipments Hit 10 Million One Month After Release -
Samsung's Galaxy S4 has hit 10 million channel sales one month after its release. The company announced its latest milestone today just eight days after confirming that it had shipped over 6 million units of the S4 since its international launch on April 26.TechCrunch 9 hours ago:
Why Does Hollywood Hate The Future? -
A few weeks ago, Chris Dixon tweeted something thought-provoking: What were the last Hollywood movies you saw about technology & the future that were optimistic? They seem to be systematically dystopian.TechCrunch 10 hours ago:
Kim Dotcom Claims He Invented Two-Factor Authentication, Has A Patent To Prove It -
Oh, Kim Dotcom. You just never stop surprising us. Just hours after Twitter finally rolled out its long-awaited Two-Factor authentication, the Megaupload founder is claiming to have invented the entire mechanism… and he's got a patent to prove it.TechCrunch 11 hours ago:
LinkedIn Has Definitely Acqui-Hired Maybe, Omar Hamoui's Polling Startup, Minus Hamoui Himself -
Fresh from closing its purchase of newsreading app Pulse, LinkedIn has made another acquisition to dive deeper into the mobile space.TechCrunch 12 hours ago:
Encoding.com's Vid.ly Integrates With FreeWheel To Provide Monetization Of Universal, Cross-Platform Video URLs -
Cloud encoding vendor Encoding.com launched Vid.ly a couple of years ago to provide video creators with a way to publish a single universal video URL and then have that content accessible on any device.TechCrunch 14 hours ago:
GiftCards.com Agrees To Buy Giftly To Grow A Mobile Platform -
GiftCards.com, a Pittsburg-based company that has been around for more than a decade and has sold 5 million gift cards, agreed to buy San Francisco startup Giftly to grow out a mobile platform.TechCrunch 14 hours ago:
Twitter Ups Web Account Security With Optional Two-Factor Authentication Via SMS -
After hundreds of thousands of accounts were potentially compromised a couple months ago, Twitter today launches two-factor authentication through SMS to protect people from hacks and phishing scams on the web.TechCrunch 14 hours ago:
