The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here’s another example of that in action: today UK-based video ad platform Videoplaza is announcing a new $12 million round of funding.

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 things have changed in the worlds of consumer electronics and computing by setting up comparisons to rival chip maker Intel’s keynote later in the…

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 of shares in stock instead. His successor Tim Cook has so far been taking a different route, according to SEC documents filed yesterday.

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 a wager on Monday night’s national championship game between LSU and Alabama (I’m taking LSU +1) but to gear up for the 2012 International Consumer Electronics…

Kyobo, South Korea’s largest bookstore chain, is launching the first e-reader to use Qualcomm’s Mirasol technology. It has a color screen that can apparently be read even in bright sunlight, with a long battery life. E-books make up around 15 percent of trade book sales in South Korea, second only…

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 to build a truly national 4G wireless network. The Federal Communications Commission has decided that if that’s the case, that it better review AT&T’s proposed acquisition of wireless…

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 like some of the world’s biggest tech companies have already been won over. Yesterday, eight companies—including Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Facebook—have now been in…

Wireless firm Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) is joining a growing list of investors that are betting on ChaCha, a service that lets users call or text message a query and receive an answer shortly afterwards. The company is investing $3 million in the company as part of an add-on to the…

Makers of smartphones and the chips that power them are grabbing patents faster than ever. That suggests that a few major participants in the smartphone patent wars, where more than 20 companies are now doing battle, expect those disputes to continue for at least another year or two. The number…

Chris Hoerenz is chief marketing officer for the Fox Mobile Group, which was recently acquired by Jesta Group. FMG launched its on-demand mobile video subscription service Bitbop in June. The pricing landscape is shifting in the nascent mobile video market in the U.S. First it was the reduction in price…

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 whole thing blew up, the spectrum itself is worth almost $2 billion based on the latest spectrum auction.” The whole thing did blow up—we were first…

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 users - in its three years of operation. But the wider picture of mobile video sounds a little more encouraging: figures to be released by…

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 speculation just this week - but this is not stopping the market from trying to find the sweet spot in the medium anyway. Mobile…

After 36 hours of radio silence, Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) is finally acknowledging that it is canceling its direct-to-consumer FLO TV operations. The company says in a statement that it is suspending direct to consumer sales of new devices and that it can’t guarantee that current subscribers will receive FLO programming…

Viewdle, a tech firm that markets facial recognition software to consumer products companies, has raised $10 million in second round funding from Best Buy, Blackberry Partners Fund and Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM). Previous investor Anthem Venture Partners also participated in this new funding round. The investment will support the rollout of…

(Update: Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) has now confirmed our report that is canceling FLO TV) Qualcomm is shutting down its struggling direct-to-consumer FLO TV operations, paidContent has learned. According to sources familiar with the situation, the staff was informed late last week by Bill Stone, president of MediaFlo and FLO TV,…

Over the weekend I got a copy of a note from investor meetings with Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) CEO Paul Jacobs suggesting that the company was about to wind down or spin off its MediaFlo unit. Not so, says Jacobs. “We are not shutting down MediFlo,” Jacobs told paidContent during an…

Eight-year Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) vet Mike Yuen helped spearhead the development of Zeebo, the downloadable game console that debuted at this year’s GDC, and now he’s devoting himself to it full time. Yuen is joining the gaming company—which Qualcomm has a stake in—as its SVP of worldwide content and services.…

Adding heft to its entry into the operating system market, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) disclosed it was working with a number of major netbook makers on Chrome OS. Among the partners Google listed: Acer, ASUS, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo. Google’s plans call for Chrome OS to be on netbooks by the middle…