Mobile Minutes: Starbucks, Square part ways; BlackBerry's self-destructing phone; Less Instagram users; Fitbit's IPO
This is why Square is going to miss Starbucks ? a lot
Starbucks announced it will soon no longer accept Square?s mobile payments as
the company looks to build and distribute its own ?mobile ordering solution,
leveraging our own mobile app and world-class loyalty system,? ReadWrite?s Owen
Thomas reports.
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BlackBerry works with Boeing on phone that
self-destructs
BlackBerry is working with Boeing Co. on Boeing's high-security Android-based
smartphone, the Canadian mobile technology company's chief executive said on
Friday. The Boeing Black phone being developed by the Chicago-based aerospace
and defense contractor, which is best known for jetliners and fighter planes,
can self-destruct if it is tampered with.
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Instagram users finding they?re less popular than thought
Many Instagram users are learning they aren?t as popular as they thought. Instagram
in recent days has revealed ?corrections? in the number of people following
many users, after announcing last week it had removed a significant number of fake
accounts from the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service.
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Fitbit
said to plan 2015 initial offering led by Morgan Stanley
Fitbit Inc., a maker of fitness-tracking wristbands, is working with banks on
an U.S. initial public offering for 2015, said people familiar with the matter.
Read more on Bloomberg