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KPCB announces $250M sFund for social startups

Following the success of its $200 million iFund targeted specifically at mobile apps on Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iOS platform, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) has scratched $250 million together for an sFund to invest in all things social.The venture capital fund is also...

EA acquires Angry Birds publisher Chillingo for up to $80 million

In another major vote of confidence for iOS app developers, Electronic Arts Inc. (ERTS) has acquired Chillingo for as much as $80 million.The publisher of the runaway-hit Angry Birds sold for less than $20 million in cash, according to The Los Angeles Times, but...

@ 4G World: RCR Wireless News names 2010 Ecosystem Awards winners

RCR Wireless News, the leading online resource for all things wireless, has announced the winners of the 2010 RCR Ecosystem Awards, which recognizes leading organizations that have demonstrated success, innovation and excellence in the mobile and wireless industry. Congratulations to the 2010...

Reader Forum: The race of the taps: Improving the mobile user experience and resulting opportunities

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,...

Are video calls finally hitting the mainstream?

Do you remember your first video call? Perhaps it was on Skype, Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Talk or Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iChat on a desktop computer.Now the video calling phenomenon is finally taking hold in mobile, thanks in large part to Apple's recently launched FaceTime...

ChaCha closes $20 million in new funding, relaunches site

ChaCha Search Inc. has closed a $20 million round of funding from a pair of new investment groups and relaunched its website to improve the user experience and engagement with advertising.The Indianapolis-based company secured its latest round of financing from VantagePoint Venture Partners and...

Qualcomm acquires iSkoot Technologies

Qualcomm Innovation Center Inc. (QuIC) has acquired iSkoot Technologies Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) subsidiary, which focuses on bridging Qualcomm technologies together with open source software, purchased the San Francisco-based company to bring more social media and online services into...

Local mobile ad network xAD grabs $4 million investment

San Francisco-based xAD, a local mobile ad network, has raised $4 million in investment from Emergence Capital Partners to expand its technology platform and management team. The company has a "patent-pending mobile optimization technology that identifies who, what, and where an end user is...

OMVC still plugs local as the biggest driver for mobile TV

Five months into a consumer trial in Washington, D.C., the Open Mobile Video Coalition is now releasing more findings from its Mobile DTV service.The trial service, which includes 23 channels of local and national news and entertainment programming, has 350 users on board who...

DeNa acquires Ngmoco for up to $400 million : Largest iPhone-related acquisition so far

Any developer or entrepreneur who has hesitated to go all in on Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iOS has 400 million reasons to think otherwise today. San Francisco-based Ngmoco, one of the early independent iPhone game makers, has been acquired by Japan's DeNa Co. Ltd. for...

Qualcomm cuts its losses on FLO TV : Shut down already underway

Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) is in the process of shutting down its mobile broadcast FLO TV service. After hesitantly entering the direct-to-consumer side of the space just a couple years ago, Qualcomm is now cutting its losses on that front and is in the process...

NFL wants games on tablets and Verizon is listening

Verizon Wireless (VZ) is talking to the National Football League about extending its exclusive mobile partnership to include programming via tablets, according to The Wall Street Journal.It's pretty safe to safe that football fans have been ready -- in some cases, longing -- for...

Google goes hyperlocal with mobile ads

Google Inc. (GOOG) is rolling out a new hyperlocal advertising feature for mobile ads, according to a Google Mobile Ads blog post.By leveraging a user's GPS coordinates, the new feature will serve ads for relevant nearby business and display distance information to let users...

Bubble Motion expands voice blogging footprint to Japan

Bubble Motion has inked a new carrier deal in Japan for its BubbleBlog voice-blogging platform with KDDI Corp. (KDDIF). The service, which is particularly attractive in markets where voicemail isn't fully developed, is in the midst of an aggressive rollout in Indonesia, Philippines, India...

RIM reveals ad service, social layer for BBM

A new advertising service for BlackBerry apps has been released by Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM). Honing in on the apparent simplicity of implementation, RIM said developers, advertisers, agencies and brands can now include advertising in applications "with just a few lines of code."The...

Mobile data surges 68% in first half of 2010

Whether or not carriers will admit it, one thing's for sure in the overall scheme of things: mobile data is being used at a faster clip than they can increase capacity.Take Allot Communications Ltd.'s latest report, wherein it calculated mobile data bandwidth usage increased...

Apple's meteoric rise in mobile advertising

Apple Inc. (AAPL) is losing momentum to Google Inc. (GOOG) on the operating system front, but for the time being it appears to be more than making up for it on the advertising front.The maker of all things iOS, including the recently launched iAd...

Is T-Mobile USA blocking texts over process or medical marijuana?

T-Mobile USA Inc.'s customers might want to mind their P's and Q's next time they get the urge to send a missive in the form of a text message or text under the influence.The nation's fourth-largest carrier in terms of subscribers argued in federal...

Microsoft launches SDK for mobile ad network

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is releasing a software development kit (SDK) for mobile advertising on its forthcoming operating system, Windows Phone 7, and the Microsoft Advertising Exchange for Mobile.Hailing it as the "industry's first real-time, bidded ad exchange in mobile," Microsoft hopes it can makes...

Spotlight on: Swype

SEATTLE — Less than a block from the waterfront and ferry terminal, Swype Inc. is still settling into its new digs near this city's historic Pioneer Square. Having moved in to its new headquarters just a few weeks ago, there is plenty of room...

Sprint wants innovative 4G apps from developers

Sprint Nextel Corp. has partnered with WIRED, Reddit and Ars Technica to launch an app developer contest called the Sprint 4G App Challenge.The No. 3 U.S. carrier in terms of subscribers wants developers to create new and innovative apps to push the envelope and...

Apple to fire up wireless printing in iOS 4.2

Apple Inc. is launching its AirPrint wireless printing program for devices running on iOS in the next software update in November. The company has released a beta version of the program to developers and plans to roll it out to all users in iOS...

Greystripe looks ahead to the mobile web

Greystripe, one of the few remaining independent mobile advertising networks, has expanded its stable of in-app ad formats to now support cross-platform mobile web sites and native iOS, Android and Java applications.The San Francisco-based company is expecting more publishers to eventually focus somewhat less...

OMVC details results of Mobile DTV consumer trial

After a three-month consumer trial in Washington, D.C., the Open Mobile Video Coalition is detailing results and viewing habits from its Mobile DTV Consumer Showcase.With as many as 350 consumers engaged in the trial, the most enthusiastically endorsed content was live, local news broadcasts....