Michelle Maisto

Banks Must Innovate to Keep Young Customers from Embracing Web Rivals by Michelle Maisto For Banks, an Alibaba Warning Amazon “made waves” in 2012 when it began offering merchant loans, but it was already three years behind China’s Alibaba. By offering savings account interest rates up to 15 times higher than standard banks, within nine […]

Sprint and T-Mobile have finalized the details of a merger, which will entail Sprint buying T-Mobile for approximately $40 a share, or $32 billion, The New York Times reported June 4, citing people familiar with the matter. None of the involved companies—including T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom, which Reuters reported May 29 will keep a […]

Amazon has released a teaser video for a device that CEO Jeff Bezos will introduce at a Seattle event June 18. In the video, we see the reactions and expressions of a series of people who are looking down, using the device, though it and their hands are just outside the frame. They bob their […]

Vodafone, the world’s second largest wireless carrier, released a comprehensive Law Enforcement Disclosure Report on the official policies and eavesdropping practices of government agencies in 29 of the countries where it provides phone services. In some instances, agencies can listen in on live conversations without a warrant and with minimal effort while, in others, they […]

A very divided Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released a report about how it intends to run its upcoming wireless spectrum auctions. One auction will involve 65MHz of high-band spectrum—spectrum above 1GHz that’s considered “capacity spectrum” and ideal for deployments across vast distances. The other, a 600MHz Incentive Auction, will include significant amounts of low-band […]

WiFi Calling is among the new features of iOS 8 that Apple didn’t get to highlight on stage during its introduction of the mobile platform at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) June 2. T-Mobile was quick to announce that it will support the feature, which enables users to, as the name suggests, place a phone […]

Digital technologies are erasing the boundaries between industries while companies searching for new revenue streams are looking in new markets. If you add to this consumers’ deepening relationships with leading mobile companies, and traditional banks are in trouble, according to a new report from Accenture. The company surveyed more than 4,000 retail bank customers in […]

Hewlett-Packard says business users want more flexibility—more options—and so June 4 it introduced the HP Pro x2 612, a two-in-one built from “the ground up” for business users. “It’s a notebook first,” says HP media director Mike Hockey, making clear that not a corner has been cut in the quality or feel of the computing […]

eWEEK, like other news sites, has been reporting since last year on Apple’s plans to enter the health care field. These stories have ranged from Apple taking a meeting with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reports of its new hires—who are a phenomenally talented group of doctors and researchers and engineers with, to […]

Apple, as expected, announced its entry into the health care market during the keynote address of its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 2. What it shared was brief but intriguing—and it really won’t be more clear until iOS 8 is released in the fall on the for-now-secret devices Apple will introduce then. Craig Federighi, Apple’s […]