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Can Groupon grow up? - CNET Update

2012-04-26
it's time to speculate on Spotify shop online with cash and crack open a beer to lick mature I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update the hotly debated cybersecurity bill called sista will likely not become law the White House has said it will be to the sista bill claiming an endangered Americans privacy and gives homeland security too much broad power for years Congress has been pushing for new laws to fight cyber attacks but looks like sista won't be the winning plan the CEO of groupon andrew mason gathered his employees together to talk about how the company needs to mature how there's no margin for error and that groupon is like a toddler in a grown man's body and he said all this while drinking a beer in fact he had trouble speaking during his meeting because he was drinking The Wall Street Journal was tapped into the webcasted staff meeting which employees were also given drinks as the CEO answered questions on the company's future yes because when you're in the middle of shareholder lawsuits of facing possible investigation into your finances beer is a great way to look serious about your company's future in other news we're watching walmart now let you shop online and pay with cash if you live near a walmart you can place an order online and then go into the store to pay for the item once it's paid the items will ship Walmart says this is an opportunity for customers they'll have access to a debit or credit card samsung announced a new quad-core chip will be in its next Galaxy smartphone we'll find out more about that phone next week on May third spot if I could be moving into pandora territory bloomberg reports that the streaming music service is building a customizable radio player similar to that of Pandora and that it would launch this year in our last show we mentioned that Sprint will continue to offer unlimited data plans for the next iPhone even if that iphone is a 4g phone one of our cnet readers left a comment about their unlimited plan with AT&T user I play nice wrote my one concern is I'm an unlimited data plan holder with 18t now when the iphone is 4g i hope they don't use that as a loophole to get us unlimited data plan holders out of that contract that's because 3gs different than 4g data and that was a great question many iphone users who stick with ATT are allowed to keep their unlimited plan which isn't offered anymore so I asked AT&T for an answer right now if you're an unlimited data plan with AT&T you can switch to any 4g phone today and you still have unlimited data so if 18t doesn't suddenly change things up looks like unlimited data customers can keep their unlimited contract with a future 4g iphone that's your tech news update for today stay updated on all the latest news on cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey
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