After Google Inc. (GOOG) announced plans to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) for $12.5 billion, executives from both companies jumped on a call with investors to offer more details about the pending transaction.Marking his first major acquisition since taking the reins...
Google Inc. (GOOG) took a more serious position in the mobile space today announcing plans to acquire Motorola Mobility Holding Inc. (MOT) for $12.5 billion. The move, if approved, would give Google direct control over a device maker and a direct channel to distribute...
DigiTimes | August 5, 2011 | Steve Shen
HTC has announces consolidated revenues of NT$45.11 billion (US$1.56 billion) for July, up 83.29% on year, while total revenues from January to July 2011 were NT$273.67 billion, up 121.56% from a year earlier.
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In a deal that is uniformly being labeled as a patent portfolio purchase, HTC Corp. has acquired Dashwire Inc. for $18.5 million. The Seattle-based company offers cloud services for operators, device makers and retailers with support for BlackBerry, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile.HTC said...
New York City-based Augme Technologies Inc. (AUGT) has signed an agreement to acquire Hipcricket Inc. in a deal that’s expected to close at the end of the month. Augme, which recently completed its acquisition of Jagtag, another mobile marketing company, plans to keep Hipcricket’s...
Vodafone | July 28, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone Turkey today announced that it has agreed terms with the Koç Group to acquire  Koç.net1 for a cash consideration of TRY30 million (£11 million2).  Koç.net provides fixed voice and data services to enterprise customers and will...
Stratos BV, provider of mobile and fixed-site remote communications solutions, announced it has purchased most of the operational assets of Blue Ocean Wireless Ltd. As part of the acquisition, Stratos assumes responsibility for providing services to most of BOW’s customers, including many large commercial...
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) has snapped up assets from Sunnyvale based GestureTek, which specializes in gesture recognition technology, for integration into its Snapdragon processors.
Gesture recognition, once the preserve of science fiction films like Minority Report, is slowly making its real life debut in tablets...
Dell Inc. (DELL) announced today that it will acquire Force 10 Networks, a buy that backs up analyst speculation that the second-largest computer maker in the world would absorb a networking vendor to provide the company a combined networking and data center offering to...
Birch Communications, IP-based telecommunications and managed services provider, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the U.S. CLEC assets of Cordia Communications Corp., My Tel Co Inc., and Northstar Telecom Inc. Read more.Dell announced it has signed a definitive agreement to...
Bloomberg | July 18, 2011 | Matthew Campbell, Michael Kavanagh
France Telecom SA (FTE) may make the Democratic Republic of Congo its next target for African expansion after entering exclusive talks with China’s ZTE Corp. to purchase a majority stake in Congo China Telecom, the...
Alfa and AT&T Inc. announced on July 12 that Alfa had finalized its purchase of AT&T's 49% stake in Mexican telecom company Alestra. The transaction was originally announced in April 2011. Now, Alfa is now the sole shareholder of Alestra.
The transaction was approved by...
Alfa and AT&T Inc. announced on July 12 that Alfa had finalized its purchase of AT&T's 49% stake in Mexican telecom company Alestra. The transaction was originally announced in April 2011. Now, Alfa is now the sole shareholder of Alestra.
The transaction was approved by...
Alfa and AT&T Inc. announced on July 12 that Alfa had finalized its purchase of AT&T’s 49% stake in Mexican telecom company Alestra. The transaction was originally announced in April 2011. Now, Alfa is now the sole shareholder of Alestra.
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Reuters | July 11, 2011 | Isabel Reynolds
Japanese mobile social gaming firm DeNA will seek to expand by buying more game developers, its new chief executive, Isao Moriyasu, said in an interview on Monday.
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Telenor Group | July 8, 2011 | Press Release
Telenor has reached an agreement with Agder Energi to acquire the fibre companies LOS Bynett AS and Bynett Privat AS.
- We are very satisfied that Telenor is taking over and developing the two companies' broadband initiative...
eBay Inc. (EBAY) has reached a deal to acquire Zong for $240 million in cash. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company provides mobile payments through carrier billing channels and has deals with more than 250 operators around the world.eBay plans to combine bring Zong’s...
HTC Corp. is adding 235 patents to its war chest in a $300 million deal to acquire S3 Graphics Co. Ltd. from VIA Technologies Inc. S3's patents cover a range of graphics visualization technologies used in PCs, gaming consoles and mobile devices, the company...
Logicalis Group, the international IT and Communications solutions integrator, has acquired Netarx, Michigan-based solution provider. Netarx provides IT professional services including managed services, data center, collaboration, and infrastructure design solutions to customers throughout the Great Lakes and Arizona. Read full press release here....
Hytera Communications China, the parent company of Miramar-based Hytera Communications Co., Ltd., has announced the successful Initial Public Offering on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange of 70 million shares at an initial price of $3.06/share. Total authorized capital is 278 million shares. The...
TelePacific Communications, an IP, voice, data and Internet services company , announced today that it will acquire Tel West, an Austin-based voice, data and Internet service provider. Specific financials of the deal were not disclosed.
Tel West provides services to around 3,400 small and medium-sized...
CML Microsystems Plc , a mixed-signal semiconductor company headquartered close to London, England, has acquired the exclusive rights to the RALCWI low bit-rate vocoder products from Spirit Corp, a Moscow based software company. CML originally licensed RALCWI from Spirit a few years ago to...
Hindustan Times | June 19, 2011
In its pursuit to become a leading player in telecom space, Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries group may have to acquire younger brother Anil-run Reliance Communications (RCom), a report has said. RIL's proposed re-entry into telecom sector is currently limited...
