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The Mobile Lowdown 05-13-11: Twitter Docomo; Cisco; Samsung iPad; Huawei

May 13, 2011 8:20 AM

Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Twitter partners up with Docomo on innovative location services; Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) gears up for layoffs; Samsung debuts a new screen that some think portends what we might see in the next iPad; and Huawei redoubles efforts in the…

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Posted In: Features, Tweets, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPad, AT&T, DoCoMo, i-Mode, Samsung, Sprint, Twitter, Verizon, Countries, Asia, Japan, cisco, huawei

Cisco Kills The Flip Cam, Restructures Consumer Business

Apr 12, 2011 9:35 AM

Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) is closing down its Flip Cam business and is pulling back on certain areas on its consumer business. Instead, CEO and Chairman John Chambers says Cisco will concentrate more specifically on what it considers the basics: core routing, switching and services; collaboration; architectures; and video.

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Posted In: Gadgets, Marketing, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Technologies / Formats, cisco, flip

75 Exabytes Of Mobile Data Will Be Used By 2015, But We Can Be Fickle Users

Feb 2, 2011 5:15 AM

Some interesting numbers out from Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) that, if true, have big implications for the mobile world and how services might develop over time. Mobile data use is poised to grow by 26 times between 2010 and 2015 with services like mobile video driving that boom, with a staggering…

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Posted In: Apps, Mobile, Research & Metrics, Research, Social Media, Video, cisco, localytics

Apple Avoids iPhone-Like Trademark Battle Thanks To Cisco, FaceTime Deals

Jun 7, 2010 2:40 PM

Updated: Apple’s decision to rename its iPhone operating system “iOS” once again has it using a trademark owned by Cisco Systems (NSDQ: CSCO)—but this time the two companies won’t be fighting over it. Cisco, which has called its network infrastructure software “IOS” for more than a decade, tells us it…

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Posted In: Legal, Companies, Apple, iPhone, cisco

Cisco To Acquire Mobile Infrastructure Firm Starent Networks For $2.9 Billion

Oct 13, 2009 1:24 PM

Aiming to profit from the “data tsunami” mobile carriers are facing with the continued use of smartphones, *Cisco* Systems has agreed to acquire mobile infrastructure firm Starent Networks, in a deal worth $35 per share—or roughly $2.9 billion. That’s about a 21 percent premium over Starent’s closing stock price of…

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Posted In: Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Technologies / Formats, cisco

Updated: Mobile Ad Firm Amobee Receives $22 Million, From Motorola, Cisco and Others

Aug 8, 2008 1:13 AM

Updated: Globes Online reports that the round is a big one: $22 million, and includes all the names listed below. The company raised $5 million earlier this year and will have raised a total of $52 million when the present round is completed..this makes it among the most heavily funded…

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Posted In: Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Motorola, accel partners, amobee, cisco, globespan capital partners, sequoia capital, telefonica, vodafone

SoonR Closes $9.5 Million Second Round, Led By Cisco

Jan 8, 2008 12:01 AM

Silicon Valley- and Denmark-based SoonR, which makes a remote PC access system for mobile devices, has closed a $9.5 million second round funding, led by Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO), with previous investors Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital and Clearstone Venture Partners also taking part. This brings its total funding to $15.5 million,…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, cisco, clearstone venture partners, intel capital, soonr

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