Online payments processor PayPal has the right stuff to outduel Apple, Google and others in the mobile wallet battle, says company CEO Dan Schulman. “It’s a fascinating chessboard right now,” Schulman said at a recent Morgan Stanley conference. Schulman, who came to PayPal from American Express (AXP) and earlier headed wireless firm Virgin Mobile, says that the game has been “unfolding” in unexpected ways as Internet giants, banks and retailers
T-Mobile’s 4G wireless network upgrade has improved its brand image, given it more clout in the business market and, perhaps most important, boosted its stand-alone growth prospects. Deutsche Telekom-controlled T-Mobile (TMUS) on Wednesday fired its latest salvo at Verizon Communications (VZ) and AT&T (T), this time taking aim at the highly profitable business market. “We’re going to do to the business sector what we did two years ago in
Oracle co-founder and leader Larry Ellison backed up his reputation as one of Silicon Valley’s most competitive executives with a two-word sentence in the business software maker’s fiscal Q3 earnings release late Tuesday: “Stay tuned.” With that, the Oracle (ORCL) chairman and chief technology officer set up a race for calendar 2015 — will Oracle or will hard-charging cloud software rival Salesforce.com (CRM) sell the most software-as-a-service