Setting the price of its IPO at the top of the targeted range, Japanese mobile-messaging service Line Corp. is planning to raise upwards of $1.3 billion. “At the IPO price, the company is valued at about $6.9 billion and will be the biggest technology debut of the year,” Bloomberg Technology reports.

Dating app startup Bumble just launched BumbleBIZZ -- a new service that lets users swipe for professional connections based on their geographic coordinates. “Bumble’s bet is that the local and instantaneous nature of BumbleBIZZ could make it a more casual alternative to platforms like LinkedIn, which is tuned for prospecting rather than live conversation,” Fortune writes.

Making similar services offered by Google and Apple just a little less useful, Walmart just made its mobile payment app Walmart Pay available in more than 4,600 Walmart stores nationwide. “Announced in December, Walmart Pay is pitched as a free mobile-payments service for use in the retail giant's stores,” ZDNet writes. “It allows payments on Apple and Android devices with almost all major credit cards, debit cards, pre-paid cards, and even Walmart gift cards.”

Google is reportedly building two new Android Wear devices. “We are extremely confident Google is in the process of prototyping these in-house Wear devices,” Android Police writes. “One watch will be larger, sportier, and more fully-featured (LTE, GPS, heart rate), the other will be smaller and lack the aforementioned mobile data and GPS.”

Recode looks into those free Wi-Fi kiosks that Alphabet’s urban innovation division Sidewalk Labs is starting to setup around New York City. They come “with eyes, ears and a host of environmental, air and digital sensors to give the tech giant an unprecedented snapshot of urban life,” it reports, citing “documents.” What’s more, “Each kiosk will also generate an estimated $30,000 a year for the company from digital advertising.”

By implanting malware into more than 10 million Adroid devices, a Chinese ad firm named Yingmob has been generating around $300,000 a month in revenue. That’s according to a new cybersecurity company named Check Point. “Using its privileged access to infected devices, [Yingmob] also installs apps on behalf of others, raking in more revenue,” Motherboard reports, citing Check Point’s findings.

To more quickly display Web pages on users’ mobile devices, eBay is using Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) technology. “Altogether, around 8 million AMP pages are now live,” Venture Beat reports. “The new AMP-powered product category pages look cleaner than the non-AMP pages … But perhaps more importantly, they show up faster.”

Apple is reportedly in talks to buy Jay Z’s music-streaming service Tidal. “Apple is exploring the idea of bringing on Tidal to bolster its Apple Music service because of Tidal’s strong ties to popular artists such as Kanye West and Madonna,” The Wall Street Journal reports. “The talks are ongoing and may not result in a deal, these people said … Terms of the potential deal aren't known.”