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In The Money: Google’s NFC Partner ViVOtech Raises $24 Million

Jun 27, 2011 9:51 AM

We’ve yet to see mass-market adoption of NFC-based mobile payment services—or, indeed, of any point-of-sale mobile payment systems—but there’s plenty of activity in the space as operators, payment providers and tech companies line up to make it a reality. One of the more prominent of these—the startup ViVOtech—today announced that…

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Comes With Music Live In Singapore; End Of DRM Hinted

James Quintana Pearce

Mar 1, 2009 10:26 PM

It looked like Australia was going to be the next country to get Comes with Music, but Singapore has beaten it to the punch. The service is live there now, with Comes with Music edtions of the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N96, N85, N79, 5320 XpressMusic and 5220 XpressMusic. It has…

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Social Net Parent BuzzCity Gets $10 Million For Africa Partnership

Robert Andrews

Aug 28, 2008 6:39 AM

Mobile social network myGamma‘s parent BuzzCity is getting a $10 million funding from South African media group Naspers, with the aim of investing in applications that can leverage partnership opportunities. The Singapore-based network offers blogging, messaging, games etc and claims 2.7 million users across 70 countries and 1.7 billion ad…

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