Apple wins patent suit vs. Samsung.
On Friday, the tech world was buzzing over the news that Apple won (to the tune of $1billion) its lawsuit against Samsung for patent infringement. The jury found that Samsung did, in fact, infringe upon and violate many of Apple's patents. It is well known that patent-happy Apple has patented everything from the "pinch and zoom" motion consumers use to navigate mobile devices to the 'bounce-back" action that the scrollbars make on the iPhone and
Why Square-bucks (Starbucks & Square) makes sense
Need I say it again? Everyone's going mobile. At last year's Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco, I wrote about how Square was changing the way that independent artisans and craft makers did business by using the mobile payment service to accept credit cards and sell their goods. One year later, its not uncommon to see the handy Square card reader accepted by small vendors all over the Bay Area. And no one has any
