Tom Krazit
Sep 27, 2011 5:00 AM
Are mobile payments the new speech recognition technologies? One of the bigger stories in mobile this year has been the growing investment and hype behind the idea of using one’s mobile phone as a method of payment, but it’s pretty clear that the details of how any one company or…
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Ingrid Lunden
Aug 24, 2011 6:34 AM
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: » AT&T’s handset roadmap for Q3 and Q4 (or a part of it, at least) has been uncovered. It’s a mix of Android, WP7 and BlackBerry devices, but no sign of the iPhone yet. And its first LTE tablet, the…
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Ingrid Lunden
Mar 10, 2011 5:54 AM
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile: Square fends off accusations from VeriFone; OpenFeint launches a fund with The9 to bring more games to Android; and OpenText moves into mobile apps with the acquisition of weComm.
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Apps, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Countries, Asia, China, aurora feint, jack dorsey, open text, openfeint, square, the9, verifone, wecomm
Joseph Tartakoff
Feb 11, 2010 7:38 PM
VeriFone, which makes point-of-sale equipment, like PIN pads, says it has invested $5 million in Chinese mobile payments firm Trunkbow, as part of the $22.5 million Trunkbow raised via a reverse merger. The investments puts a $65 million valuation on Trunkbow, according to a statement. Last year, Trunkbow partnered with…
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E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Mobile, Countries, Asia, China, trunkbow, verifone
Tameka Kee
Dec 14, 2009 7:05 PM
Zecter, developer of the cloud-based media storage and transferal platform ZumoDrive, has raised $1.5 million in funding. New investor Sherpalo Ventures led, with participation from previous backers Tandem Entrepreneurs and VeriFone CEO Douglas Bergeron. Zecter was initially funded by Y Combinator. ZumoDrive lets users port their media files to mobile…
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Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Technologies / Formats, sherpalo ventures, verifone, y combinator
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