Intel’s well-documented failure to capitalize in the mobile transformation of computing leaves it with little choice but to use its prodigious wealth to try and jump-start demand for a new category of products. A $300 million investment fund may encourage system builders to try their hands at Intel’s “ultrabook” concept,…

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: —Apple Patents: Just as Apple is fighting patent battles on multiple fronts, some upheaval in its ranks. Richard “Chip” Lutton Junior, who manages the iPhone patent portfolio, has apparently left Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). BJ Watrous, who had once worked…

Digital Chocolate, the mobile and social gaming firm started and led by Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) founder Trip Hawkins, has raised $12 million in a fourth round of funding led by Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital, with past investors Sutter Hill Ventures and Bridgescale Partners also participating. The company says that…

More money for the mobile data middlemen: Mobixell Networks, which works with mobile operators to improve data service delivery on their networks, has completed a $10 million funding round led by Azini Capital, along with existing investors Escalate Capital, Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital, and smac partners.

The funding of mobile social companies continues with Aurora Feint, creator of the mobile social gaming network OpenFeint, picking up cash from Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital to close out a recent $8 million round. The Burlingame, Calif.-based company is benefiting from the cross section mobile, social and gaming heating up,…

Carrier IQ, a software provider of mobile analytics for carriers and equipment vendors, has raised $20 million in a third round of funding from investors that include *Intel* Capital and Sumitomo’s Presidio Ventures. Previous backers Accel Partners and Charles River Ventures also joined the round. The three year old, Mountain…

Transpera, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based mobile video platform company, has closed a second round of funding worth $8.25 million. Labrador Ventures and all previous investors, including Flybridge Capital Partners, Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital and First Round Capital participated. The mobile video platform, which allows for an ad-supported model, has attracted…

Dexterra, a Bothell, Wash.-based company which builds enterprise software for mobile workforces, said it has raised $21.5 million in funding. The lead investor was New Enterprise Associates, and existing investors Canaan Partners, Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital, Mesirow Financial, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Ventures and Sigma Partners, also participated. The same investors…

Bellevue-based UIEvolution, which develops a mobile content platform, said today it raised a first round of funding with Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital leading the round, with Japan’s Itochu and UIE founder Satoshi Nakajima also participating. The round in essence restarts the eight-year-old company as an independent entity, having previously been…

Mobile ad and multimedia technology provider Mobixell Networks has raised $6 million in its fourth round of funding from existing investors Apax, Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital and smac partners. The eight year-old firm, which counts Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) and Universal Mobile Music as customers—will use the money…

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,…