Mobile Minutes: Amazon?s app delivery gigs; Alibaba?s Paytm stake; Sonos upgrade; Google?s new devices
Amazon taps ?on-demand? workers for one-hour deliveries
Under the new service, called Amazon Flex, people sign up for shifts through an
app that prompts them to fetch packages from mini-warehouses and take them to
customers? homes in as little as one hour. Amazon pays the drivers about $20 an
hour to make the deliveries.
Read more on Wall Street Journal
Alibaba takes stake in Indian mobile payments start-up
Alibaba and its financial services arm, Ant Financial, have made a
"strategic" investment in India's largest mobile payment and commerce
platform, Paytm, as investors flock to get a piece of the burgeoning Indian
start-up scene.
Read more on CNBC
Sonos software upgrade allows speakers to tune to your
room
Users wave their mobile device around the areas of a room where the listener
most often is, while the speaker emits a series of blips and tones covering a
whole range of frequencies. The app senses where in the room that sound is
obscured and compensates using a smart equalizer.
Read more on ABC News
Google unveils new devices to connect smartphone and TV
Google on Tuesday revealed two new Chromecast streaming devices ? one for
televisions, another for speakers ? along with a new tablet computer and a pair
of new devices from the company?s Nexus line of Android mobile phones.
Read more on New York Times