Mobile Minutes: Spotify; iPhone text messages; Alibaba one-day sale; Internet sales tax
After losing Taylor Swift?s entire music catalog, Spotify AB?s chief executive Daniel Ek on Tuesday defended the company?s business in a post on the music streaming service?s blog.
Apple Inc was ordered to face a U.S. federal lawsuit claiming it failed to tell consumers that its messaging system would block them from receiving text messages if they switched to Android-based smartphones from iPhones.
A most telling sign of China?s enormous consumption demand, $9.3 billion worth of orders were placed during the 24-hour ?Singles Day? online shopping festival hosted by Alibaba on Tuesday.
Bricks-and-mortar retailers have become the first U.S. business group to be disappointed by Republicans since their midterm election gains, as party leaders indicated that a bill to end tax-free Internet shopping was doomed.