Ingrid Lunden
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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David Kaplan
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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Ingrid Lunden
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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Joseph Tartakoff
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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Tameka Kee
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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Matt Kapko
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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Carlo Longino
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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