AT&T's Leap Of Faith: Could Leap Wireless Help It Win T-Mobile?
Facing long odds to get its acquisition of T-Mobile approved by the government, AT&T (NYSE: T) is preparing to offload a significant amount… Read more »
Twitter Buys Mobile Security Firm Whisper Systems: Enterprise Push Coming?
Another step in Twitter’s mobile acquisition trail: the microblogging and messaging service has acquired Whisper Systems, a enterprise mobil… Read more »
Russia's Yandex Searches For Mobile Growth, Buys SPB Software
Taking a page from its search counterparts in the East and West like Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Russia’s Yandex has scooped… Read more »
Thanksgiving Turkey: AT&T, T-Mobile Pull Merger Application From The FCC
Today, on a public holiday in the U.S., AT&T (NYSE: T) and Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) issued a statement saying they would be withdrawing t… Read more »
Microsoft Appears Closer To Making Formal Yahoo Bid
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After weeks of rumors about Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) considering another bid for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Dealbook is reporting that the software g… Read more »
EyeSight Gets Its Hands On $4.2 Million For Gesture Control Technology
If the Kinect and the Wii popularized the idea of gestures controlling machines, the rise of startups working in the area will take the tech… Read more »
FCC Will Not Bless AT&T/T-Mobile, Asks For Hearing On Merger
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission does not like what it sees in the proposed mega-merger between AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile. It ha… Read more »
Netflix's Global Funding Makes Sense — If It Can Rescue Domestic
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) shares opened four percent lower Tuesday after Monday’s after-market announcement that it is taking $400 million to fue… Read more »
Expedia Buying Out RenRen To Grab More Of Chinese Travel's eLong
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Expedia is buying Chinese social network Renren out of its stake in global travel site eLong. Read more »
Google Has Launched An Incubator In South Africa
Even though the country’s Naspers is a case study in media’s digital reinvention, South Africa is rarely spoken of when it comes to digital… Read more »
Apple Adversary Zuora Raises $36 Million For Subscription Services
Big funding round for the digital content subscription and billing specialist Zuora: the company has raised $36 million in a Series D round… Read more »
Video Ad Networks BrightRoll, YuMe Raise New Millions
As online video’s growth shows no sign of slowing down, broadband video ad network BrightRoll has raised a $30 million third round to extend… Read more »
Ex-Myspace CEO Mike Jones' New Company Is Part VC Firm, Part Digital Studio
Barely two months after slowly exiting Myspace as its last CEO under News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), Mike Jones is debuting his new company, Science… Read more »
Intel Dangles $100 Million To Create Intel-Friendly Mobile Startups
Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has had trouble getting its chips into the types of mobile devices that are transforming the computing experience, and it… Read more »
Mobile Consolidation As Velti Buys MIG For Up To $54 Million
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Some big consolidation is afoot in mobile marketing and technology services with San Francisco-based Velti buying London’s UK market-leading… Read more »
USA Today Acquires Mixed-Martial Arts Site MMAjunkie
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USA Today is continuing to try to build up its digital side, as the print business struggles on, with another purchase designed to appeal to… Read more »
WPP Re-Invests In Chinese Video Game Ads Company
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WPP and Revolution Capital are making a second investment in InGameAdvertising, the Shanghai-based Chinese in-game advertising network. Read more »
EMI Group Split Between UMG And Sony
Four years after the whole label sold to Terra Firma for £4.2 ($6.69) billion, now one half of EMI Group – the record music division, EMI M… Read more »
Ideal Binary Takes Funding For Its Fairy Tale Book-App Ambitions
Irish developer Ideal Binary has raised €750k (around £642k) to fuel its ambitions in the increasingly competitive book-apps market. The… Read more »
Google Takes Two: Buys Apture To Enhance Chrome, Katango To Beef Up Google+
Not one but two tech acquisitions were announced by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) today: Apture and Katango, both of which point to Google’s ambition… Read more »
RLJ Equity Acquires Media Source, Owner Of School Library Journal & Others
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If you’ve ever wondered how certain books wind up on library shelves, or how your children’s school librarian chooses which books to buy, th… Read more »
Video Ads Landgrab: Adconion, Blinkx Buy Smartclip, PVMG
Two new acquisitions underscore how M&A is fuelling ongoing consolidation in the still-growing online video advertising segment. Read more »
Index Ventures Launches $690M Fund To Invest In Late-Stage Startups
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Index Ventures, the London-based venture capital firm best known for investing in LoveFilm and Skype, has defied the eurozone debt crisis to… Read more »
Kobo Acquired By Japanese E-Commerce Firm Rakuten For $315 Million
E-bookseller and e-reader company Kobo is being acquired by Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten for $315 million. The company says it will c… Read more »
Mobile Startup Funding: Strangeloop $10 Million; Urban Airship $15 Million
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What will be the most-used medium for consuming mobile content in the future: the web or apps? It’s a question that gets hotly debated, and… Read more »
Branson's Next Mobile Act: An Investment In Mobile Payments Startup Square
Richard Branson is no stranger to investing in mobile media: among his more notable moves have been establishing *Virgin Mobile* years ago,… Read more »
More Money For Masabi: $4 Million For Mobile Ticketing, Expansion Into U.S.
Masabi, the London-based mobile ticketing startup that has nearly cornered the market for train services in the UK, has raised more funding… Read more »
Yahoo Buys Interclick Amid Consolidation Of Ad Data Providers
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Yahoo’s announcement that it is acquiring data management platform interclick for $270 million comes amid a wave of ad tech deals, which are… Read more »
Clearspring Acquires Social Data Tool XGraph
Just a month after installing ex-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Right Media head Ramsey McGrory as CEO, content distribution engine Clearspring has acqu… Read more »
More Apps, You Say? Appcelerator Raises $15 Million For Development Service
The growth of mobile apps — there are well over one million on the market already — shows no sign of slowing down, and Appcelerator, which… Read more »
Adobe, Looking To Grab Rising Online Video Ad Dollars, Buys Auditude
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Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is continuing to build its advertising business through major acquisitions and this time, it’s buying Auditude, which ope… Read more »
Urban Airship Snaps Up SimpleGeo, Adding Location To Mobile Dev Services
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Two startups hoping to be at the center of a shift in development priorities to mobile are joining forces. Urban Airship, which provides not… Read more »
HarperCollins’ Acquisition Of Thomas Nelson Is An Investment In Digital
HarperCollins is acquiring Christian publisher Thomas Nelson–publisher of the mega-bestselling Heaven Is For Real–for $200 million in a de… Read more »
Mobile Ad Company 4INFO Raises $14 Million, Spins Out Its AdHaven Platform
More VC money getting invested into one more independent mobile ad network: 4INFO has raised $14 million in funding in a round led by Paul A… Read more »
Hyperlocal Businesses Try New Revenue Models
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Hyperlocal startups in a crowded marketplace are testing new ways to stand out, and they discussed their strategies at the Street Fight Summ… Read more »
Music Service Aspiro Sells A Stake To Norwegian Retailer
Aspiro, the other Swedish unlimited music service operator, is selling a 6.5 percent stake to Norwegian entertainment retailer Platekompanie… Read more »
Sony Buys Ericsson Out Of JV To Make ‘Four-Screen Strategy’ With Mobile
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has confirmed it is buying Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) out of their Sony Ericsson mobile handset-making joint venture for €1.05… Read more »
Amazon’s Acquisition Of The Book Depository Gets Official OK
Despite industry organizations’ fears that Amazon’s acquisition of UK online bookseller The Book Depository will create a de facto monopoly,… Read more »
PlayJam Takes $5 Million To Go Global With Its Connected TV Games
PlayJam, which distributes its own and now third-party casual games to TVs in Europe, is taking a $5 million first investment round to help… Read more »
WPP Buying Further In To Chinese Online Ad Measurement
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Chinese digital ads measurement firm Moment Systems is taking a $20 million second round investment led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers… Read more »
