The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here’s another example of that in action: today UK-based video ad platform Videoplaza is announcing a new $12 million round of funding.

Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) didn’t have a lot of news to share during its keynote Tuesday morning at CES 2012, but it did illustrate just how much things have changed in the worlds of consumer electronics and computing by setting up comparisons to rival chip maker Intel’s keynote later in the…

The late Steve Jobs famously drew a $1 salary when he was CEO of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), with other compensation coming in the form of millions of shares in stock instead. His successor Tim Cook has so far been taking a different route, according to SEC documents filed yesterday.

The biggest spectacle in the tech industry kicks off Sunday evening, when an estimated 150,000 people will flood into Las Vegas not to place a wager on Monday night’s national championship game between LSU and Alabama (I’m taking LSU +1) but to gear up for the 2012 International Consumer Electronics…

Kyobo, South Korea’s largest bookstore chain, is launching the first e-reader to use Qualcomm’s Mirasol technology. It has a color screen that can apparently be read even in bright sunlight, with a long battery life. E-books make up around 15 percent of trade book sales in South Korea, second only…

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: » Google agreed to pay 33 percent more—$3 billion—than it originally offered for Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility to get the deal done at $12.5 billlion: were patents the driver? (Motorola Mobility’s SEC Filing)

Millennial Media is one of the larger independent mobile ad companies around, and now there are signs that it could be looking to take its business in new directions for growth: the company has recruited Isaac Babbs, a 25-year veteran of companies like Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) and Glu Mobile (NSDQ:…

» Appia has appointed Craig Forman as its executive chairman. He joins the white label app store company from his position as chairman at Where, the location-based media company acquired by Ebay earlier this year. Before Where, Forman has had a long career with senior roles at Earthlink (NSDQ: ELNK), Yahoo…

Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks—a sentiment that they have held on to despite some high-profile services having failed to meet expectations. Now Everything Everywhere—the JV of Orange and T-Mobile in…

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: » Apple and five warning signs to watch for at the company in the next stage of its growth. (via Bob Sutton)

AT&T (NYSE: T) has defended its $39 billion proposed acquisition of T-Mobile by claiming that it needs T-Mobile’s wireless spectrum in order to build a truly national 4G wireless network. The Federal Communications Commission has decided that if that’s the case, that it better review AT&T’s proposed acquisition of wireless…

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Earnings: Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) reported better-than-expected, if small, growth in service revenues for the quarter ended June 30. Verizon is set to report later today. (Our story, Verizon)

As AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile USA continue to work their way through regulatory approval of their proposed $39 billion merger, it looks like some of the world’s biggest tech companies have already been won over. Yesterday, eight companies—including Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Facebook—have now been in…

Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Small mobile operators band together against the AT&T (NYSE: T) proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA; the question over iCloud.com and Apple; (NSDQ: AAPL) and a new mobile payments service from Buongiorno.

Intel’s CEO, Paul Otellini, made no secret of his reaction when Stephen Elop called him last week to break the news about Nokia (NYSE: NOK) going with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) instead of MeeGo for its smartphone strategy: “I used the same [four-letter] word that Carol Bartz often uses,” he said,…

Too many apps on the market today? Looks like we may be seeing a lot more soon. On the heels of reports that Yahoo is planning to launch a new personalization platform next week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, two other new mobile app initiatives are launching that point…

—Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Mobility: In its first results since spinning off from the Solutions part of its business, the mobile device and home networking division, now known as Motorola Mobility, reported Q4 revenue of $3.4 billion an increase of 21.3 percent over the same quarter last year. Net profit was…

Wireless firm Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) is joining a growing list of investors that are betting on ChaCha, a service that lets users call or text message a query and receive an answer shortly afterwards. The company is investing $3 million in the company as part of an add-on to the…

Makers of smartphones and the chips that power them are grabbing patents faster than ever. That suggests that a few major participants in the smartphone patent wars, where more than 20 companies are now doing battle, expect those disputes to continue for at least another year or two. The number…