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Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 03 Sep 2008 03:53 PM PST
Earlier this year, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) surprised us all when Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers announced it would support the iPhone by creating a standalone $100 million iFund focused on…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 03 Sep 2008 03:39 PM PST
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) is getting ready to launch Fancast Mobile, a mobile application which will allow users to watch live programming on your phone, and schedule recordings on your DVR,…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 01 Sep 2008 08:46 PM PST
Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) ambitious all-you-can-eat mobile music service, Comes With Music, will launch in UK next month, and will then be rolled out in continental Europe and Asia next year.…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 28 Aug 2008 11:47 AM PST
Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) losing two more of its senior executives, this time from its mobile division, which falls under the heading of Yahoo’s Connected Life. Steve Boom, SVP of Connected…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 28 Aug 2008 11:36 AM PST
Sprint (NYSE: S) has integrated a slew of content and location-based services into its upcoming Xohm WiMax wireless broadband network. In the release, the company stressed the importance of developers…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 26 Aug 2008 06:00 AM PST
Cambridge, MA.-based JumpTap, a white-label mobile search and advertising company, plans to announce today that it has raised $26 million in a fourth round of funding, bringing its overall total…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 25 Aug 2008 10:04 PM PST
Qik, the popular-among-bloggers mobile video streaming service, has received new funding from Marc Andreessen and his longtime business partner Ben Horowitz. Andreessen is the founder of Ning, and Horowitz is…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 19 Aug 2008 10:17 PM PST
Reliance ADA, the scary-big Indian telecom/media/energy giant which is already making strides in Hollywood through its Dreamworks deal, has been looking for mobile content deals in U.S. for some time…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Mon 18 Aug 2008 12:37 PM PST
Some potentially sad news today for music fans who like their music free, but don’t want to risk the recording industry’s wrath. In a candid interview with the Washington Post,…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 17 Aug 2008 07:54 PM PST
Internet advertising is increasing in terms of overall relevance at China’s Focus Media (NSDQ: FMCN). The Shanghai-based multi-platform digital media company—its main business is out-of-home advertising—reported $76.1 million of its…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 14 Aug 2008 10:00 AM PST
Twitter says it’s stopped sending out tweets via SMS in the UK, claiming the popularity of the service has made the cost too prohibitive (but I’m still getting messages). Without…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 13 Aug 2008 08:56 PM PST
Still waiting for an MLB IPO? Better hope Bob Bowman starts practicing his moves as a shortstop. Asked if a public offering is in the offing, the head of Major…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 08 Aug 2008 11:44 AM PST
From our sister site MocoNews: Starting this fall, T-Mobile USA will take the extraordinary step of ditching its traditional deck on the phone and replacing it with a platform that’s…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 07 Aug 2008 10:31 AM PST
Not necessarily a secret, but Verisign is divesting of its “non-core” businesses, and has done some of them, but is now hitting road bumps in selling off some of the…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Wed 30 Jul 2008 12:21 PM PST
“Content is king, but distribution brings the bling,” Brian Shin, founder and CEO of Visible Measures, said hesitantly on a panel this morning at the LATV Festival here in Hollywood.…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 28 Jul 2008 06:19 PM PST
Our dear friend Cyriac Roeding, the former EVP of mobile at *CBS*, is on a world tour of about 10 countries in seven weeks. After leaving CBS (NYSE: CBS) earlier…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 25 Jul 2008 03:35 PM PST
A rare strategic investment from Associated Press: it has invested in mobile news services start up Verve Wireless. The first round of $3 million included Associated Press, Iron Capital, and…
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 25 Jul 2008 06:58 AM PST
-- Professional video CPMs to grow faster than user-gen: The hope for user-gen video to effectively compete with professionals is dashed in a report by the Diffusion Group. The group…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Jul 2008 07:23 PM PST
Gigaomni Media, the blog media network founded by Om Malik, has done its first acq-hire: it has bought a mobile technology blog called jkOnTheRun, a blog about mobile gadgets, including…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 15 Jul 2008 12:32 PM PST
South Korea’s SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) is in talks to buy Sprint Nextel, the third-largest U.S. carrier, according to CNBC, Reuters reports. The report did not name any sources for…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 15 Jul 2008 09:25 AM PST
Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) kicked off E3 in Los Angeles with fresh details on games currently in development and planned for release through the remainder of the year. Out of…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Jul 2008 06:17 AM PST
Mobile newsreader service Mobispine is acquiring NewsAlloy, an Ajax, web-based RSS reader, intending to merge the two in to a “seamless” product offering personalized newsfeeds across desktop and mobile. The…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 11 Jul 2008 12:35 PM PST
Here’s a round-up of our iPhone coverage at mocoNews. Stay tuned for more news as the device begins to sell out, activation issues persist, MobileMe continues to be unpredictable and…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Jul 2008 07:11 AM PST
The phone may be quicker, but the wait sure is a drag. After New Zealand and Japan got there first, after Europeans queued up, one year after iPhone 1.0 hit……
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 09 Jul 2008 11:26 AM PST
Two major—and somewhat mixed—iPhone 3G consumer reviews tonight in advance of Friday’s second-gen rollout. The NYT’s David Pogue and WSJ’s Walt Mossberg find a lot to praise in what really…
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