NVIDIA’s Icera acquisition was not about integration was not about integrating baseband onto the processor chipbut about doubling the firm’s opportunity market wise, according to Mike Rayfield, the firm’s general manager of mobile.
Speaking to RCR at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, Rayfield said the purchase...
Qualcomm announced it has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Rapid Bridge LLC, a San Diego-based inventor of advanced techniques for the design and development of semiconductor products. Rapid Bridge's San Diego design team and San Diego/Bangalore engineering services operations will...
Henkels & McCoy Inc. has bought In-Building-Wireless to expand its Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) efforts. The two companies have worked together through Henkels & McCoy's H&M Networks business, collaborating on projects across the carrier, enterprise and federal vertical markets.
Silver Spring, Md.-based In-Building-Wireless brings more...
Henkels & McCoy Inc. has bought In-Building-Wireless to expand its Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) efforts. The two companies have worked together through Henkels & McCoy's H&M Networks business, collaborating on projects across the carrier, enterprise and federal vertical markets.
Silver Spring, Md.-based In-Building-Wireless brings more...
New York-based ABI Research announced that it has acquired Austin-based teardown startup Market Eye 1. Financial details of the deal were not announced.
The term “teardown startup” may sound confusing, but it refers to tearing down mobile devices at the board and platform levels to...
Polycom Inc. (PLCM) announced it will acquire Hewlett Packard Co.'s (HPQ) Halo video conferencing company for $89 million in cash.
The deal includes HP's products, contracts and employees, but leaves speculation on what will happen to HP's team that developed the Halo technology in Corvallis,...
Polycom Inc. (PLCM) announced it will acquire Hewlett Packard Co.'s (HPQ) Halo video conferencing company for $89 million in cash.
The deal includes HP's products, contracts and employees, but leaves speculation on what will happen to HP's team that developed the Halo technology in Corvallis,...
Kore Wireless Group Inc. announced it has acquired Australian-based M2M provider Mach Communications Pty.Ltd. to grow its machine-to-machine business for multinational companies. Terms of the acquisition were not announced between the two privately held companies. Melbourne, Australia-based Mach is set to become Kore Wireless...
TinyCo a leading developer of iOS and Android games, announced the launch of the TinyFund -- a $5 million gaming fund -- to provide mobile game developers with capital and resources needed to successfully launch their games. Developers around the world are invited to...
Dallas-based Mavenir Systems announced it will extend the company's 4G and LTE mobile infrastructure solutions by acquiring privately owned Airwide Solutions, a company specializing in mobile messaging solutions.Mavenir also announced the company raised $40 million in its fifth round of funding. New investor August...
Millennial Media, the largest independent mobile ad network, didn't look far for its next acquisition target in Washington, D.C.-based Condaptive. The company, which focuses on audience formation and development via data analysis, will now join the ranks of Baltimore-based Millennial Media. Terms of the...
Fuse Powered Inc. announced the completion of a $2 million seed funding round, with contributions from BlackBerry Partners Fund and NFQ Ventures. The investment will accelerate Fuse – a digital mobile game publisher – from early-stage to fully-established, as it finalizes plans for significant...
Although we first heard about it a few weeks ago, today Twitter has gone official with their purchase of UK-based Tweetdeck, makers of the popular desktop social media client of the same name. The papers were finally signed yesterday, with Twitter reportedly paying between $40 million and $50 million in cash and stock.
As AT&T Inc. defends its intentions to acquire T-Mobile USA Inc. in antitrust court, the company’s executives are meeting in Silicon Valley hoping to garner support from top venture-capital firms and technology companies.
In the proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA by AT&T, regulators...
UOL | MAy 9, 2011 | Press Release
São Paulo, May 9, 2011 – UOL, in pursuit of its growth strategy in the online means of payment market, acquired majority interest in the company Boa Compra LTDA.Boa Compra will still be managed by Christian Carneiro...
Salesforce.com the enterprise cloud computing company, announced it has completed its acquisition of Radian6, the industry-leading social media monitoring platform used by more than half of FORTUNE 100 companies. Radian6's unique technology captures hundreds of millions of conversations every day across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,...
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) dropped a bombshell by announcing this morning that it will acquire Luxembourg-based Skype Global in a deal will shake up the mobile, video and gaming industries. The $8.5 billion deal, the largest in the history of Microsoft, was announced earlier...
Early this morning Microsoft went official with news that has been rumoured for the last 24 hours - they have saved up their pocket money and are using it to buy Skype, the ubiquitous VoIP service, for a cool $8.5 billion. Other suitors such as Facebook and Google has also been in the mix, but it would seem Microsoft have reached deepest in order to secure the deal.
As predicted by RCR Wireless News at the Mobile World Congress event earlier this year in Barcelona, Spain, mobile processor maker Nvidia Corp. said it will acquire 3G/4G baseband chip maker Icera Inc.The news is significant, because despite Nvidia's success over the past...
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) is planning to expand the role of one of its greatest assets, BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), through a just announced acquisition of Germany-based ubitexx GmbH.The company's ubi-Suite device management solution will be incorporated into the BlackBerry Enterprise Server...
Neustar Inc., provider of solutions and directory services that enable trusted communication across networks, applications, and enterprises around the world, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets and certain liabilities of the Numbering Solutions business from Evolving...
Airimba Wireless Inc. – doing business as WindChannel Communications, Inc. – announced that it has concluded a merger agreement with AireWire, Inc. to create a combined company providing an expanded and diversified portfolio of network integration, wireless broadband and municipal services. Tobin...
Equinix | April 26, 2011 | Press Release
Investing with Riverwood Capital, Equinix Acquires Controlling Interest in ALOG Data Centers of Brazil
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – April 26, 2011 – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, and Riverwood Capital, a technology-focused...
One might think that Austin-based mobile check-in and social networking company GoWalla would be happy that one of their competitors is now gone, but the story is more complicated. Groupon acquired Pelago, the parent company of local discovery app Whrrl, which is a similar...
