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Square First-Mover Advantage May Slip Vs. Competition

In classic Silicon Valley style, an intrepid first mover has a commanding view of a growing market — and a backside full of arrows fired by ever more challengers. The first mover in point-of-sale mobile payments is privately held Square, led by its high-profile CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey. Dorsey also co-founded Twitter. While still chairman of that company, he launched Square with the idea of making credit-card transactions practical for even

Google Vs. The European Union: What’s Ahead?

The dust is still swirling following Google’s announcement last month that it would close Google News in Spain rather than comply with a new law requiring search engines and news aggregators to pay publishers if they post snippets of the publishers’ stories . The cost is unacceptable, Google News head Richard Gingras wrote in a blog post about last month’s closure: “This new legislation requires every Spanish publication to charge services like

U.S. May Need Wake-Up Call On 5G Wireless Race

Verizon and AT&T turned the U.S. into 4G wireless champions, but a 5G repeat is in question. The U.S. led the world in upgrading wireless networks to 4G LTE (long-term evolution) technology. Europe, China, South Korea and Japan aim to jump ahead with 5G mobile broadband next-generation wireless services. The U.S. might not roll out 5G wireless on a wide scale commercially until perhaps 2024, forecasts market research firm Strategy Analytics. While