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Detailed by reports from both the campaigns of President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, Square's mobile payments hardware is being rolled out to collect campaign donations. Fundraisers are being outfitted with the small, plastic credit card reader which can be used with the iPhone, 3G iPad or Android smartphone to collect money while campaigning within neighborhoods or other commercial locations. Assuming that this… Read More

Michelle Obama joined Twitter on Thursday and in a matter of hours has already gathered more than 200,000 followers. The first two tweets, however, weren’t from Michelle herself but from “campaign staff,” indicating that the new account will form part of her husband’s election strategy to help keep him in the White House when Americans go to the polls later this year. “We're excited today to launch @michelleobama as a new way for you to… Read More

Photo-sharing social network Instagram received an endorsement Tuesday evening that comes straight from the top — President Barack Obama is now a member. In a post to the official Barack Obama Tumblr blog, which is one of many social media elements of the president's 2012 re-election campaign, the country's “first official Instagram photo” was posted. The slightly stylized image (Valencia filter, maybe?) shows a… Read More

The US Department of Justice blindsided the mobile industry Wednesday by filing an antitrust lawsuit intended to prevent AT&T from purchasing T-Mobile USA. The $39-billion deal would make AT&T the largest wireless provider in the United States — something the DOJ believes “would result in tens of millions of consumers all across the United States facing higher prices, fewer choices and lower quality products for mobile wireless… Read More

President Barack Obama wrote and published his own tweet today on the @BarackObama Twitter account, asking the American public to “Call. Email. Tweet.” their representatives in Congress to “#compromise” on the solution raising the debt ceiling. “The time for putting party first is over. If you want to see a bipartisan #compromise, let Congress know. Call. Email. Tweet. —BO,” the tweet reads. Earlier this… Read More

US Vice President Joe Biden now has his own Twitter account, reports Leena Rao at TechCrunch. The second-in-command will now be tweeting under the account @VP. “VP & Dr. B hope you take time to think about our troops & military families this Independence Day,” reads Biden's only tweet so far. “Happy 4th from OVP!” The Twitter feed is not VP Biden's personal account, but rather that of the office of… Read More

The Obama 2012 reelection team announced today that it is taking over the president's Twitter and Facebook accounts as part of its strategy for maintaining control of the White House for another four years. President Obama will even be writing some tweets himself, something the team says he hasn't had the time to do since assuming his role as Commander-in-Chief in 2009. “Obama for America staff will now be managing both… Read More

President Barack Obama officially launched his bid to remain in office for a second term today — and, once again, Facebook has become a fully integrated part of the political strategy. Of course, the Obama team has created a fully-formed Facebook page for the re-election, complete with family photos and Obama's favorite TV show (hint: it's “Sportscenter.”) But that's only the tip of the campaign's social… Read More

Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs may soon be headed to Facebook as a senior communications official for the social network giant, reports The New York Times' Dealbook blog. The rumored high-profile hiring comes via “people briefed on the negotiations,” and has been confirmed by neither Facebook nor Gibbs. The alleged conversations between Gibbs' camp and Facebook come prior to a public offering by Facebook… Read More

The Internet has become such an integral component in our daily lives that it is easy to forget how young it is. For comparison, video games precede what we now know as the World Wide Web by more than a decade. As a result of this, there's been a sort of Wild West mentality online as governments around the world attempt to work out a way to handle the great beast. New steps toward a more regulated Internet will be taken today as the Obama… Read More

Talk about an exclusive get-together. According to ABC News' Jake Tapper, President Barack Obama is reportedly meeting in San Francisco today with some of the technology world's biggest players: Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Google's Eric Schmidt, GE chief executive Jeffrey Immelt and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. Details of the meeting were delivered by an anonymous source, who did not say what would be covered in the meeting,… Read More

It seems that even our Commander-in-Chief is susceptible to dropped calls and slow data speeds. No secret super-phones in the Oval Office. President Barack Obama outlined the details of a newly introduced White House plan intended to bring reliable 4G wireless broadband to 98 percent of Americans within the next five years during a speech at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Mich. yesterday. The core of the plan would ask, though not… Read More

In a bold move, Fiscal Commission co-chair Erskine Bowles asked Microsoft to take a stab at the largely untapped “boring” genre of video games, and create a game that would allow users to attempt to balance the budget. According to USA Today, the White House is hoping Microsoft can create a game to show the public the difficult choices involved in managing the nation’s deficit. The current U.S. national debt is $12.8 trillion dollars, and the… Read More

Malware attackers will latch onto anything to push their evil, but the election of Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday has been a godsend to them. There has been a wave of Obama spam, with links to videos of his victory speech. Of course, those links lead to sites where the supposed Adobe Flash plug-in is actually is malware executable file. In other instances those reading the spam are asked to download a .exe file – which is a Trojan.… Read More