Ingrid Lunden
Nov 8, 2011 7:00 AM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) could be adding one more OEM to its list of Android licensees, and this one is a biggie: Huawei, the ambitious Chinese OEM that is rapidly gaining market share on the back of producing low-cost Android-based devices. The development raises questions about whether Android phone makers competing…
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Tom Krazit
Aug 31, 2011 1:04 PM
There’s more mobile patent madness in store for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM). Openwave Systems (NSDQ: OPWV) has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit in federal court and before the International Trade Commission contending that both companies are infringing on patents for “technologies that became foundational to the…
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 4, 2011 5:30 AM
This week, news about non-native app stores was a bit like a proverbial bus: you wait for ages, and then two announcements come along at once. A new solution from Openwave (NSDQ: OPWV) and GetJar; and a rebranded white-label store, Appia, formerly known as PocketGear, the multi-platform app store backed…
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Tricia Duryee
Jan 27, 2009 8:46 PM
Openwave Systems (NSDQ: OPWV), which competes in the analytics, content and messaging space in mobile, released second-quarter fiscal results for the period ended Dec. 31, 2008. Revenues totaled $48.1 million, dropping from $51 million in the prior quarter and slightly increasing from $47.4 million in the same period a year…
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Amanda Natividad
Nov 7, 2008 11:37 AM
After having spent four years on the company’s board, Ken Denman has been appointed as Openwave’s CEO. He succeeds interim CEO Bruce Coleman and will continue to serve on the board. Until recently, Denman was chairman and CEO of iPass, where he led three acquisitions—including GoRemote, Mobile Automation and Safe3w.…
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Tricia Duryee
Jun 30, 2008 10:05 AM
Openwave Systems said today it was selling its mobile browser and messaging business to Purple Labs, a supplier of Linux for mass-market 3G phones, for $32 million in cash and the right to purchase up to 2 percent of Purple Labs’ stock. The purpose of the sale is to allow…
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Tricia Duryee
Apr 30, 2008 12:30 PM
Openwave Systems, the Redwood City, Calif. company that helps manage and monetize the mobile Internet, released earnings for the third quarter ended March 31, saying that while revenues fell in the period compared to a year ago, its losses narrowed. Third quarter revenues totaled $58 million compared with $63.2 million…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Jan 25, 2008 11:48 AM
Mobile software firm Openwave (NSDQ: OPWV) announced revenue of $63.2 million for its quarter ended December 31, down 16 percent year-over-year from $75.7 million. On a sequential basis, revenues were flat. The company earned $4.8 million in this quarter, but this included $16.45 million in one-time gains on the sale…
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James Quintana Pearce
Nov 15, 2007 9:32 AM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Openwave (NSDQ: OPWV) have finalized the sale of Musiwave to Microsoft, after announcing a few days ago that they were in talks. Microsoft will pay $46 million in cash and assume a debt of $4 million, bringing the cost to the $50 million mark mentioned eariler.…
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