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Starbucks invests in Square. Start-up Square said Starbucks will use its technology to process some customer payments in 7,000 of its U.S. stores, and that the coffee chain will invest $25 million in the company. Square technology won’t replace Starbucks’s main cash-register systems, and customers will still be able to use the popular Starbucks mobile payment app that the company launched in January 2011. The key difference is that Square will allow the customers to pay with credit and debit cards on their phone, while Starbucks’s current system only allows consumers to use their Starbucks debit card to pay, report the Journal’s Amir Efrati and Annie Gasparro. The new investment puts Square among some of the highest-valued closely held technology companies.
Judge wants names of paid reporters. A judge ordered Oracle and Google ith battery like IBM ThinkPad A31 battery , IBM ThinkPad 600 battery , IBM 02K7016 battery , IBM ThinkPad G40 battery , IBM 08K8026 battery , IBM ThinkPad T21 battery , IBM ThinkPad T20 battery , IBM ThinkPad X61 battery , IBM ThinkPad T61 battery , IBM ThinkPad X41 battery to disclose any payments made to journalists who reported on Oracle’s copyright infringement case against the search giant, reports Bloomberg’s Karen Gullo. Both companies said they will comply with the order, but that may prove especially difficult for Google, which indirectly pays bloggers for ads placed on their sites through its AdSense program. Last May a jury found that Google infringed on Oracle’s copyrights when it built the Android operating system, but deadlocked on whether it was “fair use.”
Viewpoint: Apple working on holograms. Apple has a 3-D display system patent that it intends to use to create holograms, according to Businessweek contributor Ben Kunz. He says to ignore past 3-D flubs–3D TV, Nintendo’s 3DS Gaming system–and place faith in Apple’s expertise in making failed ideas work. “Apple is the second-mover that makes failed first-mover ideas work,” he writes. Apple’s patents hint at a display system that uses a camera/sensor to track the location of viewers’ eyes, combined with a screen capable of sending out beams of light at different angles.
No regrets from Sprint CEO for Apple partnership. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse says his company’s $15 billion commitment to selling iPhones is worth it. “I think the No. 1 thing was getting the call from Apple that they were interested in at least having the opportunity,” Hesse said during a tour of the company’s headquarters attended by AllThingsD’s Ina Fried. The carrier is on the hook to purchase $15.5 billion in iPhones over the next four years. Hesse had no comment on whether Sprint will add an iPad to its lineup.