HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Fox Mobile Entertainment is joining the ranks of wireless aggregators, unveiling a Web site hawking music, games and images for mobile phones.The News Corp. subsidiary launched Mobizzo, an Internet storefront featuring content from Fox brands including "Family Guy," "Napoleon Dynamite" and the upcoming...
EBay Inc. has agreed to spend at least $2.6 billion in cash and stock to acquire Internet startup Skype International S.A. The online auction company said it will pay $1.3 billion in cash and an equal amount in stock for Skype, a 2-year-old Voice...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-Time Warner Inc. is the latest media giant to join the stampede to the "third screen" with a $7.5 million investment in wireless game maker Glu Mobile. The stake was part of a $27.5 million haul in Series D financing for Glu...
Time Warner Inc. is the latest media giant to join the stampede to the "third screen" with a $7.5 million investment in wireless game maker Glu Mobile. The stake was part of a $27.5 million haul in Series D financing for Glu (formerly Sorrent...
Twentieth Century Fox Television (TCFTV) unveiled a new division to create and distribute content exclusively for wireless devices. Fox Mobile Entertainment will expand on the network's efforts to bring content from its TV shows to wireless devices. The network already has distributed 100 one-minute...
LAS VEGAS-The slow rollout of high-speed wireless data networks continues as CDMA-based carrier Verizon Wireless last week said it will expand its BroadbandAccess network to 12 additional markets on top of the 20 metropolitan areas already launched. Rival Sprint PCS reported that it plans...
LAS VEGAS-Verizon Wireless will offer video, audio and three-dimensional games over its EV-DO third-generation network beginning next month. The carrier also announced plans to expand the cities in which it offers EV-DO service.Subscribers in 32 U.S. markets with 3G phones will be able to...
The nation's newest reality show is set to debut on a mobile phone near you.Sprint PCS announced it will offer a streaming-video application from Cyber Oasys Corp. and V-Star that will follow the antics of five "twenty-somethings" living together in a Santa Monica, Calif.,...
The nation's newest reality show is set to debut on a mobile phone near you.Sprint announced it will offer a streaming video application from Cyber Oasys Corp. and V-Star that will follow the antics of five "twenty-somethings" living together in a Santa Monica, Calif.,...
On first sight, comedy quiz show "Psyche 101" and reality drama series "Hotel Franklin" appear to be part of a new fall TV lineup. Each episode of "Psyche 101" follows a couple on their first date, but the twist is that viewers get to...
WASHINGTON-The wireless data arm of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association said it plans to expand its focus to include the rapidly growing content creation community, and that content companies Jippii USA, Kargo, Mobliss, m-Qube, Moviso, News Corp. and Pinnacor have joined the group.CTIA's...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Premium Wireless Services Inc., a wireless entertainment and messaging platform provider, has licensed the copyrights to a variety of songs and music properties from Sony/ATV Music publishers.This agreement allows PWS to sample selections for Sony's catalogs for use as ringtones for mobile...
Nextel Communications Inc. privately sold $1 billion of 10-year convertible senior notes in a "drive-by" sale to capitalize on favorable market conditions. The carrier plans to use the proceeds for network expansion, additional spectrum, strategic investments, working capital, debt service and other corporate purposes....
SINGAPORE-Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.-backed mobile phone company One.Tel announced its intention to pull out of the Singapore telecommunications market, citing Singapore Telecom as creating an unfavorable environment. One.Tel will move back to its Asian hub in Hong Kong. It further plans to channel back...
OmniSky Corp. Chief Executive Officer Patrick McVeigh last fall promised to "kick the barn door open" to the Internet when he introduced a beta version of an end-to-end wireless Internet solution for the Palm V handheld computer.It's time to see how wide the door...
HONG KONG-Speculation that Pacific Century CyberWorks' (PCCW) takeover of Cable & Wireless HKT may be unraveling increased last week, because of the continuing decline in PCCW's shares, which are nearly 40 percent below their late-February level when the deal was first established.Both Australia's News...
HONG KONG-After courting competing bids for several weeks, Cable and Wireless plc accepted a US$35.9 billion cash and stock offer for its Hong Kong wireless operation from Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. The deal is one of the largest ever in Asia.The agreement beat a...
AustraliaTelecom New Zealand acquired an 80-percent stake in AAPT, Australia's third-largest phone company. AAPT is building LMDS and CDMA networks and resells GSM service.News Corp. said it agreed to invest a further US$127.2 million in One.Tel, increasing its stake to about 25 percent. News...
SYDNEY, Australia-Australia's One.Tel Ltd. and Lucent Technologies Inc. announced an alliance to pursue business opportunities in third-generation mobile networks in the United Kingdom and Western Europe. One.Tel also received financing from News Corporation Ltd.Under a memorandum of understanding, One.Tel and Lucent will collaborate in...
