Forum on Broadband Adoption - Panel Discussion - April 14, 2011

Forum on Broadband Adoption - Panel Discussion - April 14, 2011 Video Clips. Duration : 79.47 Mins.

-- FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, the Mayor of Oakland, the California Technology Agency and the California Emerging Technology Fund held a joint forum at the Stride Center in Oakland, CA, on Thursday April 14, from 9:00 am -- 11:30 am to discuss the opportunities and challenges of increasing the relevance of broadband, including through the development and utilization of civic mobile applications (apps) and lessons learned from ongoing projects in California. As part of this event, Chairman Genachowski announced a contest co-sponsored with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation on new and innovative mobile applications design and development. Following the Chairman's keynote address was a panel discussion led by Sunne Wright McPeak, President and CEO of the California Emerging Technology Fund.

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Visa, Google Sign Deal to Boost Mobile Payment Adoption

Visa, Google Sign Deal to Boost Mobile Payment Adoption Tube. Duration : 1.25 Mins.

Visa (V) and Google (GOOG) announced that Google has received a worldwide license to Visa payWave, an innovative NFC-based payment technology. Visa payWave enables consumers to make fast and secure payments at retail locations by waving their mobile phone in front of a payment terminal and is currently accepted at hundreds of thousands of retail locations worldwide. The agreement sets the stage for Visa-issuing banks worldwide to enable Visa account holders to add their credit, debit and prepaid accounts to Google Wallet - a mobile application that turns a smart phone into a digital wallet. This is the latest effort by Visa and Google to simplify the consumer shopping experience by enabling them to make mobile payments using their mobile phones. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has a potential upside of 32.3% based on a current price of 6.67 and an average consensus analyst price target of 3.2. Google Inc. is a global technology company that provides a web based search engine through its website. The Company offers a wide range of search options, including web, image, groups, directory, and news searches.

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