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PayPal bringing more mobile pay to brick mortar world

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:36:10 MDT

PayPal bringing more mobile pay to brick mortar world

By Heather Somerville San Jose Mercury News

Updated May 21, 2013 06:36PM MDT

San Jose, Calif. • PayPal is doubling down on efforts to bring the mobile payment platform to brick-and-mortar stores and restaurants, offering new pay-from-your-smartphone services that threaten to make the physical wallet obsolete. At an event at PayPal headquarters in San Jose on Tuesday, President David Marcus unveiled mobile features for shopping, eating out and attending sports games without needing to use cash or a credit card. The eBay Inc. subsidiary is pushing for a shift from the deca...

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Tornado-hit states brace for more bad storms

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:06:03 MDT

Tornado-hit states brace for more bad storms

By SEAN MURPHY The Associated Press

Updated May 20, 2013 10:06AM MDT

SHAWNEE, Okla. • When Lindsay Carter heard on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, she gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little left. Several tornadoes struck parts of the nation’s midsection Sunday, concentrating damage in central Oklahoma and Wichita, Kan. Two people were killed near Shawnee, Okla., and at least 39 people throughout the state were injured, according to the state’s emergency management director, Albert Ashw...

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Tornadoes level homes in Okla., several injured, 1 dead

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:05:07 MDT

Tornadoes level homes in Okla., several injured, 1 dead

By SEAN MURPHY The Associated Press

Updated May 19, 2013 11:05PM MDT

Shawnee, Okla. • Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. “You can see where there’s absolutely nothing, then there are places where you have mobile home frames on top of each other, debris piled up,” Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth said after surviving damage in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park. “It looks like there’s been heavy equipment in there on...

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Use your smartphone to find e-coupons and discounts

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:11:23 MDT

Use your smartphone to find e-coupons and discounts

By Claire Martin The Denver Post

Updated May 19, 2013 01:11AM MDT

With one child in college and another in high school, seeing a movie on the big screen is a rare indulgence for our family. So when our high school student wanted some concession-stand popcorn after we bought our tickets, I rolled my eyes as she walked over, wallet in one hand and cellphone, of course, in the other. “What did that set you back?” I asked when she returned, popcorn in hand. “Two bucks,” she said. “I had a coupon on my phone.” D’oh! And so the younger generation schools the older w...

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Salt Lake iPhone developer hits No. 1 with ‘Running with Friends’ game

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:58:10 MDT

Salt Lake iPhone developer hits No. 1 with ‘Running with Friends’ game

By Vince Horiuchi The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 17, 2013 09:58PM MDT

It looks like “Running with Friends,” the first mobile game to come out of Salt Lake City developer Eat Sleep Play, is a runaway success. The 3D game for the iPhone and iPad (they’re also working on an Android version), which has the player being chased by bulls similar to the famed event in Spain, is the No. 1 free game on Apple’s iTunes App Store as of Thursday morning. The game was released May 8. “I was elated,” said Eat Sleep Play CEO and President Scott Campbell. “To look back a year ago —...

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Year after IPO, humbled Facebook still aims big

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:11:02 MDT

Year after IPO, humbled Facebook still aims big

By BARBARA ORTUTAY The Associated Press

Updated May 17, 2013 06:11PM MDT

New York • It was supposed to be our IPO, the people’s public offering. Facebook, the brainchild of a young CEO who sauntered into Wall Street meetings in a hoodie, was going to be bigger than Amazon, bigger than McDonald’s, bigger than Coca-Cola. And it was all made possible by our friendships, photos and family ties. Then came the IPO, and it flopped. Facebook’s stock finished its first day of trading just 23 cents higher than its $38 IPO price. It hasn’t been that high since. Even amid the h...

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Oh My Tech!: 4G? 3G? LTE? It matters

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:59:30 MDT

Oh My Tech!: 4G? 3G? LTE? It matters

By Vince Horiuchi The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 16, 2013 09:59PM MDT

I keep seeing all the ads about 4G LTE. How is it different from regular old 4G? Should I care? — Lisa Brothman, Cottonwood Heights. Well, Lisa, welcome to the wonderful world of marketing hype. HD, DVD, Blu-ray, 3G, 4G, LTE, HTC, AT&T. There are so many acronyms and code names for technology, it’s enough to make your head explode into a pile of alphabet goo. The terms 3G and 4G refer to third-generation and fourth-generation data networks run by wireless carriers and used by mobile devices...

Facebook ‘Home’ a high-profile disappointment

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:41:55 MDT

Facebook ‘Home’ a high-profile disappointment

By Brandon Bailey San Jose Mercury News

Updated May 15, 2013 10:41AM MDT

MENLO PARK, Calif. • In just over a month since the launch of its eye-catching new Android app, Facebook’s latest effort to win the hearts of smartphone users has turned into a high-profile disappointment for a company that describes mobile computing as its top priority. After an initial surge of interest, the volume of consumers downloading the smartphone app called “Home” has fallen dramatically in recent weeks. Users have given a low rating to the app — which automatically shows Facebook upda...

Redesign aims to ease work search on Utah’s jobs site

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:28:56 MDT

Redesign aims to ease work search on Utah’s jobs site

By SCOTT SHERMAN The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 8, 2013 09:28PM MDT

A decade ago, Utahns looking for work would file in to a Department of Workforce Services office and cluster around a cork board, scanning index cards advertising open positions. Today, that would mean 510,000 people swarming those boards in April alone. But thanks to jobs.utah.gov, the state’s online employment site, more people can view more job openings from anywhere — and now they can do so more efficiently, as well. Workforce Services has completed the first phase in a major overhaul of the...