The dombra is said to contain the soul of the Kazakhs and it’s having a resurgence, Stephen Scourfield finds. Source: au.news.yahoo.com

Police in Kazakhstan briefly detained two women who demonstrated outside the U.S. Embassy and appealed to President Barack Obama to help solve economic and social problems in the Central Asian nation. Source: http://www.rferl.org

About a month after they were first announced, the big layoffs at eBay and PayPal have begun. On Monday, eBay and PayPal employees who were losing their jobs Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Amazon already has a marketplace for college textbooks on its site, so its most recent move with three major universities to team up to sell more Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Is Google waging a war on Uber? Early signs say yes. Google Ventures was once Uber’s biggest supporter, backing the ride-hailing app with $258 million in Source: http://www.pymnts.com

The topic of security and mPOS is as old as, well, mPOS. But now that 51 million devices are expected to be in market by 2019, in support of a variety of use Source: http://www.pymnts.com

The smartest, richest tech companies in the world all posted their quarterly earnings this week, and if you had to draw one lesson from the results, it’s this: mobile matters. More than anything. Source: http://www.wired.com

Medical/healthcare apps are the third-fastest growing app category – find out why Source: http://www.elsevier.com

SEKUR.me has unveiled a Strategic Alliance Program that enables companies with millions of users to enter the mobile eCommerce/mCommerce payment marke Source: http://www.businesswire.com

Taylor Swift seeking trade marks on the phrases in her lyrics, US patent reform being readied, Hershey’s blocking Cadbury’s imports, Sam Smith and Tom Petty settling a dispute over similarities in their songs, and EFF’s stupid patent of the month…