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RIL may have to acquire RCom for telecom success: Report

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...

Telecom [New Zealand] open to foreign buyer

New Zealand Herald | June 17, 2011 | Hamish Fletcher Foreign firms will be allowed to buy up Telecom's retail business when the company breaks up this year. Under its Kiwi Share obligations, no foreign company can own ...... Read full article here via New Zealand Herald  

Nvidia explains Icera acquisition and talks Kal-El

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...

Capital Markets: Google bets on Admeld; Qualcomm acquires Rapid Bridge; and more

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...

H&M Networks acquires DAS company

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...

H&M Networks acquires DAS company

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...

Market Eye 1 mobile teardown company acquired by ABI Research

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 acquires HP’s Halo video conferencing for $89M

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 acquires HP's Halo video conferencing for $89M

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 acquires M2M counterpart Mach

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...

Capital Markets: TinyCo's not so TinyFund; Mavenir's new acquisition and funds; and more

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...

Mavenir Systems acquires Airwide Solutions, get $40M in new funding

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 acquires nearby Condaptive

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...

Capital Markets: Qualcomm acquires Atheros; Tweetdeck officially joins the flock; and more

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...

Twitter acquires Tweetdeck to shore up ecosystem

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.

Reader Forum: Communications mergers in the air – what about speed to market?

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...

Reader Forum: A smart pipe begins with the content cloud

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...

TIA 2011: Sen. Hutchison rails against regulation, calls for more spectrum

DALLAS – Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison did not hold back in her criticism of the federal government and what she views as unchecked regulation and a growing set of burdens placed on businesses in a keynote this morning at TIA 2011.After getting on her...

AT&T turns to Silicon Valley for support in T-Mobile USA acquisition

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...

Rumor: Nokia may sell handset division to Microsoft

Strategically teaming up as OS partners may not be enough for Microsoft when it comes to Nokia, according to Nokia watcher Eldar Murtazin, claiming the Finnish firm is in talks to sell off its entire handset division to the software giant.

Universo Online S.A. announces new CFO, M&A executive officver, and IRO

UOL | May 10, 2011 | Press Release Universo Online S.A. informs its shareholders and the market that on the present date Mr. Eduardo Alcaro took office as M&A Executive Officer for UOL and will take office as Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer on May...

Universo Online S.A. announces new CFO, M&A executive officver, and IRO

UOL | May 10, 2011 | Press Release Universo Online S.A. informs its shareholders and the market that on the present date Mr. Eduardo Alcaro took office as M&A Executive Officer for UOL and will take office as Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer on May...

UOL acquired Boa Compra

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...

Capital Markets: Jumptap's financing round; Salesforce acquires Radian6; and more

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,...