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Feb 9, 2012 11:56 AM
Google’s bid for Motorola (NYSE: MMI) is likely to get a thumbs up from the U.S. Department of Justice, but still could face opposition from other regulators both in the U.S. and in Europe. The landmark $12.5 billion deal is essential for Google’s attempts to play defense in the mobile…
Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Legal, Patents, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Motorola
Feb 2, 2012 9:47 AM
Two European companies are this week taking venture capital in the games space…
Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital
Jan 31, 2012 6:30 PM
Some fallout from the various asset offloads we have seen from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the last year: Synchronica, which bought Nokia’s messaging business for $25 million in June 2011, has itself become a takeover target—apparently because it will not be able to make payments on money still owed to…
Posted In: Legal, Patents, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Companies, Nokia, Countries, Europe, UK, myriad group, synchronica
Jan 25, 2012 1:00 PM
A big endorsement today for mobile advertising from eMarketer: their analysts today said they were revising up their forecasts for U.S. mobile ad spend to $2.61 billion, from their previous estimates of $1.8 billion. Why the rise? Google’s “exceptional” mobile advertising performance in mobile search advertising, and more reliable market…
Posted In: Advertising, Marketing, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Research & Metrics, Research, Search, Companies, Apple, iAd, Google, Yahoo, millenial media, millennial media
Jan 23, 2012 10:44 AM
Some revealing numbers out from the analysts at Rutberg & Co. that point to how big mobile is in terms of tech investments today, and how consumer applications are the source of the most action at the moment.
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Companies, Google
Jan 23, 2012 6:18 AM
Polar Mobile—the Canadian startup that develops apps for big-name publishers like CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), Conde Nast, Sports Illustrated (NYSE: TWX), Shanghai Daily, Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) and the WSJ—today announced two steps up in its growth: it has picked up an additional $6 million in funding and has launched…
Posted In: Apps, E-Commerce, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, B2B, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, CBS, CBS Interactive, Conde Nast, Future Publishing, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, RIM, BlackBerry, georgian partners, polar mobile
Jan 8, 2012 7:57 PM
News Corp-controlled pay-TV firm BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is buying itself a foothold in the looming social TV field by acquiring 10 percent of the startup Zeebox for a sum that is “double-digit millions” in both pounds and dollars.
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Video, Companies, News Corp., BSkyB
Jan 5, 2012 11:28 AM
Management consultancy Deloitte today became the latest company to buy into the app marketplace with the news that it has bought the Seattle-based agency Ubermind, which develops interactive and mobile products for a number of companies, including perhaps most significantly Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The price of the deal is believed…
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Apple, iPhone, iTunes, deloitte, ubermind
Jan 5, 2012 7:14 AM
The Financial Times has acquired London-based web and application developer Assanka, which made the web app on which the publisher has based its independence from iTunes.
Posted In: Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Apple, iPhone, iTunes, Pearson, Financial Times, FT.com
Jan 3, 2012 9:03 AM
More money for European tech startups: Wroclaw, Poland based mobile games publisher Tequila Mobile has announced a $1.7 round of funding, as well as six million users on its freemium gaming platform.
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Games, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Events, CES, Companies, Apple, iTunes, Google, Android, Portals, Countries, Europe, UK, tequila mobile
Dec 22, 2011 5:12 PM
Akamai (NSDQ: AKAM) has snapped up a content-delivery network focused on improving video distribution to mobile devices. Cotendo received an early Christmas present from Akamai in the form of $268 million in cash, according to a press release.
Posted In: Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, akamai, cotendo
Dec 21, 2011 2:44 AM
Apple has bought Israel’s Anobit, a maker of flash storage technology, for up to $500 million (£319 million), the Calcalist financial daily reported on Tuesday, following almost a week of speculation surrounding the companies.
Posted In: Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Countries, Middle East / Persian Gulf, anobit, flash storage
Dec 20, 2011 3:06 PM
Nuance has acquired Vlingo in a combination of two of the most prominent independent speech companies left, as mobile companies continue to eye sophisticated speech-recognition software as an important input method.
Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, nuance, vlingo
Dec 19, 2011 4:47 PM
AT&T (NYSE: T) formally ended its $39 billion acquisition bid for T-Mobile Monday, bemoaning the strong opposition from the U.S. government to the deal and noting that the scrapping of the deal will “not change the realities of the U.S. wireless industry.”
Posted In: Gadgets, Legal, Regulatory, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, AT&T, T-Mobile
Dec 19, 2011 6:37 AM
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is turning his attention now to social media: he and his investment group, Kingdom Holding Company, today became the latest investors in Twitter, putting up $300…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Companies, AOL, Apple, HP, Motorola, News Corp., Time Warner, Twitter, Countries, Europe, Russia, kingdom holdings, prince alalweed, prince alwaleed bin talal bin abdulaziz alsaud
Dec 16, 2011 5:03 AM
If print book costs major on distributing boxes of dead trees, what price the e-book fulfilment sector?
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, e-books, e-readers, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, Countries, Europe, Ireland
Dec 14, 2011 9:58 AM
SAY Media, which in recent months has acquired Remodelista and Dogster and launched Jane Pratt’s xoJane.com, is expanding into the tech space with its acquisition of ReadWriteWeb. Dan Frommer, a former editor at Business Insider and author of the SplatF blog, joins as editor-at-large.
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Online News, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, business insider, dan frommer, readwriteweb, say media, splatf
Dec 7, 2011 9:00 AM
A mobile wave of touchscreen devices has changed the way we interact with computers, but we still do an awful lot of traditional typing on those very small screens. One company that is working on improving the speed and accuracy of our mobile typing, TouchType, is getting additional investment in…
Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Google, Android, swiftkey, touchtype
Dec 2, 2011 7:49 PM
More mobile movements from Facebook today: it has bought the check-in social media service Gowalla, according to a report in CNN.
Posted In: Apps, E-Commerce, Travel, Marketing, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Companies, Disney, Facebook, gowalla, josh williams
Nov 30, 2011 4:55 PM
Could AT&T (NYSE: T) want T-Mobile’s spectrum and network assets so badly as to contemplate arranging a joint venture between it and T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom? (NYSE: DT) A report Wednesday suggests AT&T is at least talking about that option, which might be a quite complicated way to save face…
Posted In: Gadgets, Legal, Regulatory, FCC, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, AT&T, T-Mobile, deutsche telekom
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