Monthly Archives: May, 2011

Leap continues to show stress from operational change

Leap Wireless International Inc. (LEAP), which operates its wireless business under the Cricket Communications Inc. brand, posted lumpy first quarter results as the carrier...

Clearwire not looking for spectrum sale this year, continues wholesale push

Despite claims that a sale was nearly finalized, Clearwire Corp. (CLWR) has backed away from its plans to sell off spectrum assets in an...

RIM rumored to launch 10-inch PlayBook by Christmas, BlackBerry OS 7 delayed

Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) could release a 10-inch version of its PlayBook tablet by year's end and OS7 could be delayed until late...

Jumptap receives $25M in VC funding

Mobile advertising company Jumptap said it completed a $25 million financing round that it plans to use to accelerate growth through product and technology...

SILICON VALLEY: Highwinds Capital Closes New $50 Million Credit Facility

Content delivery firm Highwinds Capital, Inc. says it has secured a new $50 million credit facility with Silicon Valley Bank and Comerica Bank. The Florida...

News Corp. online properties continue bleeding money

In News Corp.'s quarterly earnings call yesterday there was good and bad news for the media giant - although mostly bad. TV revenues grew, movie revenues were reasonable, however Murdoch's online division, which includes the likes of MySpace and The Daily, lost a massive $165 million in the first three months of the year.

SILICON VALLEY: Freescale challenges engineers to build walking robots and Tower Systems

Freescale Semiconductor used the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose this week to announce its Make It Challenge design contest, which asks engineers to...

Austin innovators must learn better marketing skills

The inventor of Ethernet has said Austin does not need more money to be a more innovative city, but it needs more companies that...

VIDEO: BlackBerry PlayBook running Android apps

Finally, the demo so many people have been waiting for emerged from the BlackBerry World conference in Orlando Florida on Wednesday, as RIM showed off its BlackBerry PlayBook seamlessly playing Android apps on its new Android App Player.

ASIA: SK Telecom posts revenue, earnings gains

Korean telecom operator SK Telecom Corp. Ltd. Co. (SKM) said it earned $521 million during the first quarter of this year on the back...

Global Tower Partners buys Cricket’s towers

Global Tower Partners said it acquired 130 towers from Cricket Communications Inc. (LEAP) in a deal that closed earlier today. As is standard...

Global Tower Partners buys Cricket's towers

Global Tower Partners said it acquired 130 towers from Cricket Communications Inc. (LEAP) in a deal that closed earlier today. As is standard...

16 million LTE subscribers by 2011, says ABI Research

LTE is gaining momentum fast, according to a recent report by ABI Research, which claims there will be 16 million mobile LTE subscribers by...

Mobile payments venture Isis flames out before launch

What started as a grandiose plan for a nationwide mobile commerce network has been scaled down to nothing more than a mobile wallet. Those...

Could Intel churn out ARM chips for Apple?

With Apple and Samsung warring, the sticky situation of who will manufacture chips for upcoming iDevices is becoming a hot topic of speculation. Samsung...

AT&T unwraps telework solutions technology for federal agencies

AT&T Inc. (T) has developed a new telework platform for the complex and demanding government sector. Partnering with Oracle Corp. (ORCL) and Avaya Inc.,...

Manitoba Telecom posts flat Q1 wireless growth; new network, iPhone expected to reverse trend

Citing the impending launch of its HSPA+-based “4G” network, Canadian operator Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. reported flat customer growth results for the first three...

ASIA: SK Telecom posts revenue, earnings gains

Korean telecom operator SK Telecom Corp. Ltd. Co. (SKM) said it earned $521 million during the first quarter of this year on the back...

Retailers focusing more on mobile, but is it helping?

Despite a strong majority of retailers having a mobile strategy in place, the promise of mobile shopping has yet to ring true at the...

Sprint to hire up to 250 at Oklahoma call center

Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) said it is hiring as many as 250 employees at its Oklahoma City Call Center, which handles technical...

Analyst Angle: Israeli start-ups rake in the cash

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the...

Sprint Nextel argues against AT&T/T-Mo merger in state filing

Government filings can be tricky, as petitioners try to state their claims in the best possible light. Such might be the case with Sprint...

BLOG: Spotify gets its hands dirty with new music purchasing service

Although Apple's iTunes is still the dominant force in digital music - so dominant as to make all its competitors look like hilarious, insignificant specks - the competition are lining up to attempt to slay the Jobsian giant.

Hot Rumor: Apple iPad 3 to be fully 3D

Hollywood is rather adept at telling compelling stories, and the latest plot to come out of the LA studios concerns Apple's third generation tablet, already in the advanced planning stages and very much 3D, we're told.

Spiceworks Raises $25 Million to Bring Integrated Commerce to World’s Largest Social Network of IT Buyers

Spiceworks | April 28, 2011 | Press Release Adams Street Partners and Tenaya Capital Lead Growth Investment Financing Round AUSTIN, Texas – April 28, 2011 – Spiceworks™,...
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