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The mobile payment space may be getting a lot of attention, but it still has a long way to go.

Shuddle, a new service for parents to arrange paid rides for their children, launches today.

It happened last spring, but Peel kept mum until after Alibaba’s IPO.

All the computer printers are named after people with great mustaches. Tom Selleck. Ron Burgundy.

Will the ongoing Spy vs. Spy war between San Francisco ride-sharing services Lyft and Uber ever end? Not today it won’t!

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Duboce Girl. Burrito Guy. Tech Journalist. Lyft Driver. Biz Stone.

Look at Apple’s artificial butt to see how it simulates sitting on an iPhone.

Plus, crunch time at Foxconn and some classic Steve Jobs video.

“It has been reported this is a winner takes all market, but it’s not,” says new investor Richard Branson.

CPUC says UberPool (and probably Lyft Line) isn’t legal.

It will be a given that these services are instant and accessible via a device that we always have on us.

And yes, a story about the photos you’ve read about, too.

Plus, more Apple payments chatter and James Brown’s Miso soup commercials.

“Become so rich, and so strong, that you become a giant made out of gold and nothing can hurt you.”

Plus, big iPads, bigger hard drives and Steve Jurvetson’s Elon Musk mancrush.

It looks as though Uber took a page from “The Wire” with burner phones, secret credit cards and more dirty tactics.

Kara Swisher talks with Alexis Ohanian, Nellie Bowles chats with Jessica Livingston.

You can’t win, if you don’t open yourself up to all developers.

The ride-sharing service hits a bump in the road.

Ordering a midday massage has never been easier.

Plus, pneumatic fish tubes and more bad optics for Uber.

Re/code’s week-long series on the instant gratification economy goes on TV.

On-demand delivery is one of the hottest trends on the Internet today. Again.

Meet Lyft Line and UberPool -- and this other random fellow who’ll be sharing your ride.

Investment floods into SV from China -- and a new party circuit emerges.

Go two rounds with a new Re/code interview series called “Two Drinks With” -- you can order kombucha, but we will judge you.

Examining the reappearing “YouTube room.”

This week in tech, brought to you by Re/code.

Lyft will launch in New York City, after reaching an agreement with the state and the taxi commission.

The fact that Africa skipped landlines -- and will skip PCs in favor of smartphones -- is a fascinating statement about technological evolution.

It’s another bursty news week in the mobile transportation app world.

Sitting in traffic -- and then being unable to park in downtown San Francisco -- motivated me to write this post.

“The tech community is not inherently political, but the protests made them political -- it woke them up.”