Business Week | March 10, 2011 | Associated Press
SCHAUMBURG, ILLINOIS
Motorola Solutions Inc. said Wednesday that Chinese antitrust regulators extended the review period for the sale of the company's networks business to Nokia Siemens Networks for up to 60 days more.
Motorola Solutions is one of...
Vringo Inc., a provider of video ringtones and personalization solutions for mobile devices, announced that it has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent to acquire substantially all of the assets of m-Wise Inc. m-Wise provides a platform to manage deliver and monetize mobile entertainment,...
Quepasa | March 8, 2011 | Press Release
Quepasa Corporation (NYSE Amex: QPSA), creator and operator of Quepasa.com, the popular online social networkand game platform for the Latino community, has closed its acquisition of XtFt Games S/S Ltda, the owner ofsubstantially all the assets of...
Hitachi | March 7, 2011 | Press Release
Combination of Hard Drive Companies Will Create Industry’s Broadest
Product Portfolio and a Significant Pool of Resources for Innovation
IRVINE, Calif. and SAN JOSE, Calif. – Mar. 7, 2011 – Western Digital (NYSE: WDC) and Hitachi,...
Bloomberg | March 2, 2011 |Â Zijing Wu and Serena Saitto
Shenzhen Xunlei Network Technology Ltd., the Chinese video and music file-sharing company partly owned by Google Inc. (GOOG), is planning to raise about $200 million in an initial public offering in the U.S. this year, according...
Bloomberg | March 2, 2011 |Â Zijing Wu and Serena Saitto
Shenzhen Xunlei Network Technology Ltd., the Chinese video and music file-sharing company partly owned by Google Inc. (GOOG), is planning to raise about $200 million in an initial public offering in the U.S. this year, according...
Intel Corporation announced the acquisition of McAfee, Inc. is complete. McAfee will continue developing and selling security products and services under its own brand. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intel, McAfee reports into Intel's Software and Services Group. The acquisition is said to...
Bangkok Post | February 28, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana
China Mobile and NTT DoCoMo of Japan are expressing an interest in proposing business models to carry Advanced Info Service's mobile business should it fail to pay 74billion baht in compensation stemming from changes to past...
FiberTower Corp., a wireless backhaul services provider, announced that it received an early termination notice from one of its emerging carrier customers to terminate service at approximately 220 billing locations on Feb. 28, and that the customer is reviewing approximately 50 additional locations for...
Just short of nine months after completing its purchase of 3Leaf Systems, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has caved to pressure from U.S. trade authorities and abandoned its battle to take control of the company.
The Chinese vendor first ran afoul with the Committee on Foreign...
Just short of nine months after completing its purchase of 3Leaf Systems, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has caved to pressure from U.S. trade authorities and abandoned its battle to take control of the company.The Chinese vendor first ran afoul with the Committee on Foreign...
PAETEC Holding Corp. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire XETA Technologies, Inc. for $5.50 per share in cash valued at approximately $61 million. XETA will also become part of PAETEC’s robust Managed Services portfolio, consisting of products such as hosted...
Business News Americas | February 10, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Luxembourg-based mobile operator Millicom International Cellular (Nasdaq: MICC) has forecast capex of US$800mn for 2011, which does not include potential investments in spectrum or potential expenditure in Greenfield assets in Latin America, company CFO Francois-Xavier Roger...
Visa Inc. has announced plans to acquire PlaySpan Inc. for nearly $190 million with additional earn-out potential.The move comes as incumbents in the credit card and traditional payments space jostle with startups for positioning in the nascent mobile arena. PlaySpan isn't purely mobile —...
Digicel | February 8, 2011 | Press Release
Businesses across the Caribbean and Central America to benefit from the region’s newest ICT powerhouse
Tuesday 8 February 2011 – Kingston, Jamaica: Digicel, the Bigger, Better Network has taken a controlling stake in Netxar Technologies, the leading systems...
Antenna Software announced the acquisition of U.K.-based company Volantis. The deal will add a broad range of mobile internet solutions to Antenna's mobile platform, including the architecture for mobile commerce and enterprise app stores. Volantis will also bring Antenna a number of carrier and...
International Business News | February 2011 | Alex He
China's Synacast Corporation, or PPLive, the operator the leading online TV service "PPTV", said on Thursday that Japan's Softbank has acquired a 35 percent stake into the company.
The Japanese mobile carrier acquired Synacast's stake for about...
International Business News | February 2011 | Alex He
China's Synacast Corporation, or PPLive, the operator the leading online TV service "PPTV", said on Thursday that Japan's Softbank has acquired a 35 percent stake into the company.
The Japanese mobile carrier acquired Synacast's stake for about...
HTC Corp. announced today that it will be investing in Saffron Digital, a London-based firm that operates a mobile multimedia delivery platform. The company, which has proprietary technologies to support media distribution on multiple devices, already works with many of the top device manufacturers...
Invest in Brazil | February 2, 2011
Quepasa Corporation Tuesday announced it is to acquire Brazil’s XtFt Games S/S Ltda. Quepasa Corporation is the creator and operator of Quepasa.com, the popular online social network for the Latino community.
The firm Tuesday said it has executed a...
The Australian | February 1, 2011 | Mitchell Bingemann
M2 Telecommunications is expected to announce a multi-million-dollar acquisition of rival telco Clear Communications after it halted trading late yesterday.
M2, which specialises in supplying fixed-line voice, mobile and internet services to businesses, will reveal...
Reuters | January 27, 2011 | Ho Binh Minh
HANOI - Vietnam's FPT Corp FPT.HM, a major company in the telecoms, software and technology sectors, and an affiliate are to acquire a 49 percent stake in a state-run telecoms company, the government said.
The state will...
Motricity Inc. (MOTR) has inked a deal to acquire Adenyo for $100 million in cash and stock.The Toronto-based mobile marketing, advertising and analytics firm has a stable of clients, including major brands and media companies, that Motricity will likely try to leverage. But the...
Wall Street Journal | January 27, 2011 | Paulo Winterstein
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Brazilian telecommunications regulator Anatel on Thursday recommended approval of Vivendi SA's (VIV.FR) takeover of GVT Holding, which still has to be cleared by antitrust regulators.
Anatel had previously cleared the way for the...
