Leading professional networking website LinkedIn has opened a research and development unit in Bangalore, the first center of its kind outside its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
Private equity firm Aditya Birla Capital Advisors has invested U.S. $18.7 million in Alphion India Private Ltd., the principal subsidiary of Alphion Corp, a global provider of optical networks.
Investment in Venezuela's telecommunications industry increased 21.7% in the third quarter compared with the same period last year, reaching U.S. $220 million, said Conatel, the country's telecom agency. However, the number of mobile subscribers dropped 3.2% from a year ago.
Ecuador has unveiled its national digital strategy, with the goal of having Internet access in place for half of the country's households by 2015, up from a current level of 29%.
Dell Inc. is keeping more of every dollar it makes. The world's No. 3 PC maker (behind Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo) earned $1.1 billion in the third quarter on revenue of $15.4 billion.
Mobile phone intellectual property rights (IPR) licensing significantly includes patents that are “essential” to implement various standards including GSM, CDMA, HSPA and LTE. Purported IPR valuations including those derived from essential patent ownership “determinations” are subject to great uncertainties, inaccuracies and biases.
Rural telecom provider Frontier Communications (FTR) signed a wholesale agreement with AT&T Mobility (T) to offer wireless services to Frontier’s customers.
The three-year deal will...
The beleaguered banking industry has a new idea for building business -- calling customers on their mobile phones to encourage them to pay their bills.
Sprint Nextel has re-constructed the pricing structure of its dual-band 3G/4G mobile broadband offerings weeks after curtailing unlimited data access to its “4G” service....
Imagine checking your smartphone or PC at work to see how much energy your home heater or air conditioner is using while you're out. Then imagine resetting your appliances remotely to save energy and money. That's the goal envisioned by Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) in its partnership with a group of global companies that has formed the Energy@Home Consortium
Laboring under a debt load of nearly $7 billion, Reliance Communications, one of the leading telecom operators in India, is in the midst of exclusive negotiations with a consortium of private equity players, including Blackstone and Carlyle, to sell its tower unit, according to media reports in India.
Wavion, a global provider of Wi-Fi solutions, and the integrated solutions company Leadcom have OK'd a cooperation agreement for Africa and Latin America. Wavion expects to more than double its sales in the region in 2012, coming from both operators (carriers and ISPs) and government projects such as education.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has bought $10.7 billion worth of common stock in IBM (NYSE: IBM) this year. Berkshire now owns 5.4% of Big Blue, but the 81-year-old billionaire has said he doesn't intend to buy any more shares.
Austin, TX. (November 14, 2011)— Arden Operating Company, owner of RCR Wireless News and TelecomCareers.com announced that is has named former Kiplinger Washington Editors’s...
Many apps are quickly abandoned, especially free ones. For example, less than 5% of smartphone owners are still using free apps 30 days after downloading them. Understanding why the vast majority of apps are quickly abandoned is key for developing ones that are the exception to the rule.
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the...
Software giant Oracle recently released a report focused on the mobile space showing that increased consumer demand of mobile data services is a worldwide...
Reliance Communication, whose net profit is declining and has one of the lowest average revenue per user (ARPU) in the industry, has witnessed a further decline in its ARPU in Q2 of the current financial year.
Appcelerator and IDC's latest survey of more than 2,000 application developers found that the Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle Fire, which ships today, is the...
VelaTel Global Communications said it has entered in an agreement with China Aerospace Science and Technology Group subsidiary Aerostrong to deploy and operate a...
Safer online shopping saves money for vendors, shoppers and financial services companies. That's why MasterCard Inc. is joining forces with Intel Corp. in an...
Telefonica’s O2 operations in the United Kingdom unveiled plans for a LTE trial to begin this month across London. The nine-month trial will include...
