Apple v. Moto In Germany: One iPhone Injunction Ordered, Another One Lifted
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the last 24 hours has been dealt not one but two blows in court cases involving Motorola (NYSE: MMI) and patents in Ge… Read more »
Videoplaza Raises $12 Million For Its Multiscreen Video Ad Platform
The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here’s ano… Read more »
@ CES: Qualcomm Reminds Intel That It Is A Force In Mobile
Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) didn’t have a lot of news to share during its keynote Tuesday morning at CES 2012, but it did illustrate just how much… Read more »
SEC Watch: Apple's CEO Cook Got $378M In 2011 As He Took On Jobs' Reins
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The late Steve Jobs famously drew a $1 salary when he was CEO of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), with other compensation coming in the form of millions… Read more »
What To Expect At CES: Tablets, TVs, And Transition
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The biggest spectacle in the tech industry kicks off Sunday evening, when an estimated 150,000 people will flood into Las Vegas not to place… Read more »
South Korean Bookstore Chain Launches Qualcomm E-Reader
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Kyobo, South Korea’s largest bookstore chain, is launching the first e-reader to use Qualcomm’s Mirasol technology. It has a color screen th… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-14-11: Google/Motorola; Apple/China; Intel; Walmart
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Google agreed to pay 33 percent more — $3 billion — than it originally off… Read more »
Changes Ahead For Millennial Media? Tech Veteran Isaac Babbs Starts As SVP
Millennial Media is one of the larger independent mobile ad companies around, and now there are signs that it could be looking to take its b… Read more »
Industry Moves: Appia; Qualcomm; SonyEricsson; mxData; Appitalism; GoldSpot
» Appia has appointed Craig Forman as its executive chairman. He joins the white label app store company from his position as chai… Read more »
T-Mobile, Orange Reboot Their Mobile TV Services In UK
Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks –… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-30-11: Apple; Qualcomm LTE; Android/HP; Amazon Tablet
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Apple and five warning signs to watch for at the company in the next stage o… Read more »
FCC To Review AT&T’s Qualcomm Spectrum Deal Alongside T-Mobile Purchase
AT&T (NYSE: T) has defended its $39 billion proposed acquisition of T-Mobile by claiming that it needs T-Mobile’s wireless spectrum in order… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 7-22-11: Vodafone; iPhone Bluetooth; Twitter Mobile Payments
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
Earnings: Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) reported better-than-expected, if small, growth in servic… Read more »
Who Says No To AT&T/T-Mo? Facebook, Microsoft, Six Others Say Yes
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As AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile USA continue to work their way through regulatory approval of their proposed $39 billion merger, it looks lik… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 04-28-11: AT&T/T-Mobile; Apple iCloud; Buongiorno
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Small mobile operators band together against the AT&T (NYSE: T) proposed purchase of T-… Read more »
@ MWC, Intel CEO Otellini On Nokia And Intel’s Smartphone Out ‘This Year’
Intel’s CEO, Paul Otellini, made no secret of his reaction when Stephen Elop called him last week to break the news about Nokia (NYSE: NOK)… Read more »
New Mobile App Initiatives: Conduit Mobile And Creative Mobile Labs
Too many apps on the market today? Looks like we may be seeing a lot more soon. On the heels of reports that Yahoo is planning to launch a n… Read more »
Vendor Earnings Roundup: Moto, Qualcomm, LG
– Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Mobility: In its first results since spinning off from the Solutions part of its business, the mobile device and hom… Read more »
Qualcomm Invests In Mobile Search Firm ChaCha
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Wireless firm Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) is joining a growing list of investors that are betting on ChaCha, a service that lets users call or tex… Read more »
Patent Grants Rose Last Year-Are We About To See More Smartphone Lawsuits?
Makers of smartphones and the chips that power them are grabbing patents faster than ever. That suggests that a few major participants in th… Read more »
Industry Moves Roundup: Clearwire; Jajah / O2; Qualcomm
– Clearwire: The wireless operator has appointed John W. Stanton as chairman of the board of directors. He replaces Craig McCaw, who resign… Read more »
Adieu, Modu, We Hardly Knew Ye
Israeli handset maker Modu — which developed the concept of a super-light, super-small smartphones that can be customised with different ou… Read more »
Mobile VC Investment Was A Massive $6.1B In 2010. Google, Intel Led The Way
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Boutique investment house Rutberg & Company have released their numbers on VC and M&A activity in the mobile sector, and the figures confirm… Read more »
CES: Bitbop Inks Deal To Preload Its TV App On Verizon’s LTE Devices
Is there life after News Corp.? (NSDQ: NWS) Bitbop, part of the Fox Mobile division that was recently sold to the Jesta Group, believes ther… Read more »
Qualcomm Buys Chipmaker Atheros For $3.1 Billion
Qualcomm has bought the WiFi and Bluetooth chipmaker Atheros for $45 per share, or about $3.1 billion. This would the wireless chipmaker’s b… Read more »
U.S. Mobile Video Momentum Amounts To More Than Just Price
Chris Hoerenz is chief marketing officer for the Fox Mobile Group, which was recently acquired by Jesta Group. FMG launched its on-demand mo… Read more »
Qualcomm Sells FLO TV Wireless Spectrum to AT&T For Nearly $2 Billion
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Last June, Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) CEO Paul Jacobs described the ultimate exit path if wireless TV service FLO TV didn’t turn around: “Say the… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Google Latitude; Flo TV; AMV/Cherry Adult Content
– Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Latitude: Google’s mapping/presence app has finally made its way to Apple’s App Store, after initially getting barred… Read more »
Mobile Video On The Rise, But Still Only A Fraction Of All Usage
Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) has called it a day with its Flo TV mobile TV venture, gaining only 1 million sign-ups – but not necessarily permanent… Read more »
‘Social Driving App’ Waze Raises $25 Million In Series B Round
More activity in the area of location-aware, social apps: Waze, an app that builds up driving and navigation data by crowd sourcing informat… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Qualcomm FLO TV Numbers; Shazam; Gowalla
– FLO TV: Qualcomm’s mobile TV service, it turns out, only had around 1 million sign-ups since launching in March, 2007, according to CEO P… Read more »
NBC, Fox, 10 Others Ante Up In Mobile TV, First Content To Come In 2011
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Mobile TV has had a mixed reception in the U.S. – with the assets of one recent high profile failure, Qualcomm’s Flo TV, the subject of spec… Read more »
Report: Qualcomm In Talks To Sell MediaFLO Spectrum To AT&T
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When Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) decided in October to cancel FLO TV, its mobile TV effort, after struggles with devices and low subscribers, some… Read more »
Visage Mobile Picks Up Another $3.6 Million In Round Led By Qualcomm
Visage Mobile, the enterprise smartphone management developer formed out of the ashes of an MVNO-enabling business, has announced a Series C… Read more »
Qualcomm Outlook Excites Despite Millions In Upcoming FLO TV Charges
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As part of Qualcomm’s fourth-quarter earnings today it reconfirmed that it will exit the current FLO TV business as it currently stands, and… Read more »
uCIRRUS Raises $4 Million For Enterprise Applications
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San Mateo, Calif.-based uCIRRUS has raised $4 million from SK telecom ventures, Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) Ventures and ATA Ventures. The company… Read more »
WAC Gains 32 New Members In Quest To Build Specs For App Platform
In what could be an impossible task, the Wholesale Applications Community is making some progress at helping developers write applications t… Read more »
Qualcomm Acquires iSkoot To Reduce The Strain Of Apps On The Network
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Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) has acquired San Francisco-based iSkoot, a company that aggregates popular social networks into one application with t… Read more »
Verizon Wireless iPhone Launch For Early 2011, Say Sources
You’ve heard this one before: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is indeed manufacturing a phone capable of running on Verizon Wireless’s CDMA network. This… Read more »
Qualcomm Goes Public With Flo TV Cancellation
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After 36 hours of radio silence, Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) is finally acknowledging that it is canceling its direct-to-consumer FLO TV operation… Read more »
