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Market Cap:$74.4B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$11.1B
- Public
- US
Dow Jones Description
Qualcomm leads the information revolution. Founded in 1985 and headquartered in San Diego, CA, Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services. The company builds on its CDMA platform, with circuits, software, multimedia, GPS, and other technology. It provides two-way data messaging and position reporting services for transportation companies, private fleets, construction equipment fleets, and other enterprise companies. It markets in North America, Europe, Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The company has 2005 revenue of about $5.7 billion and employs about 9,300 people. In JAnuary 2006,the company was named one of FORTUNE magazine's '100 Best Companies to Work for in America,' for the eighth consecutive year.
Number of Employees 15,400
Contact Information
5775 Morehouse Dr
San Diego, California 92121-1714
(858) 587-1121
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing: 334220
Recent Events
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Insider Pushes Ma Bell Beyond Phones
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Re: FLO TV expansion starting in big markets, expanding outward
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Sulpizio Named Qualcomm Unit President
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Upgrades & Downgrades: Airlines Take Flight
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Investigation into Qualcomm Ceases
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Qualcomm's New Gobi2000 Technology to Deliver 3G Connectivity in Lenovo ThinkPad Laptops
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Qualcomm's New Gobi2000 Technology to Deliver 3G Connectivity in Lenovo ThinkPad Laptops
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UPDATE: MediaTek, Qualcomm Reach Agreement On Chip Patents
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Apple uses Infineon 3G chips to dodge Qualcomm royalties
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FLO TV Reviewed
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Panasonic Introduces Incentive Programs for Its Toughbook H1 Mobile Clinical Assistant
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UPDATE: Qualcomm To Launch TD-SCDMA Wireless Chip Next Year
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Cell-laptop hybrid looks good for Lenovo [The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.]
News & Analysis
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Qualcomm chief in call over heavy data users
BNET
- 2009-10-09
Qualcomm, the world's biggest maker of chips for mobile phones, has entered the net neutrality debate in the US with its chief executive calling for heavy data users to be discriminated against as wireless networks reach capacity. Paul Jacobs' call at the CTIA wireless industry conference in San Diego came...
Qualcomm acquires eight licenses in FCC 700 MHz spectrum
- 2008-04-04
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-4 April 2008-Qualcomm acquires eight licenses in FCC 700 MHz spectrumC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a provider of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, announced on Thursday (3 April) that the company has acquired eight licenses in the US Federal Communications Commission's FCC 700 MHz...
New Mobile Video Service Gets Cool Reception.(MediaFLO)
- 2006-04-03
By Glen Dickson Broadcasters worry about interference from MediaFLO Broadcasters are concerned that MediaFLO, a new mobile video service being launched by Qualcomm later this year, will cause significant interference to their analog and ...
Mobile multimedia--the next big thing?(capital currents)(MediaFLO)
- 2005-01-01
Suppose you could buy a nationwide TV channel-say, for example, channel 55 (716-722 MHz)--what would you do with it? Use it for video? Use it for mobile communications? How about mobile multimedia? That's what Qualcomm decided to do with it. This story starts in...
FCC denies Qualcomm extension for auction voucher.(News)
- 2004-06-07
Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER
Comings & Goings
- 2003-03-13
This week, Qualcomm named Jing Wang chairman of Qualcomm China and Frank Meng president ... NTL appointed Scott Schubert CFO ... Narad Networks named Dev Gupta to chairman, Craig Dynes to CEO and Chuck Kaplan to COO ... ITXC named Eric Weiss COO and Jay Meranchick vice president of operations...
Qualcomm puts its FCC vouchers to work
- 2003-01-20
Qualcomm Inc. couldn't get the spectrum it wanted but is starting to use $125 million in vouchers awarded to the San Diego-based telecom following a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission two years ago. The settlement reached with the FCC goes back to a 1992 dispute with the agency...
FCC amends terms of Qualcomm ADV. (News).
- 2002-12-23
SAN DIEGO -- Qualcomm Inc. said the FCC has amended the terms of its Auction Discount Voucher ADV, to allow it to use the remaining $114 million of its ADV to satisfy existing FCC auction debt of other companies. Qualcomm was originally...
Industry awaits next move in Salmasi PCS license saga. (Person of the Year).
- 2001-12-17
Editors' Note: Each year RCR Wireless News chooses the person who has most impacted-either good or bad-the wireless industry. The 2001 Person of the Year is Allen B. Salmasi, chief executive officer of bankrupt Next Wave Telecom Inc. While we recognize that some in the industry...
Competitive dynamics of technological standardization: The case of third generation cellular communications
- 2001-04-01
This paper is concerned with the processes through which technological standards are developed, and how these provide platforms for the expansion and development of new markets. The case we investigate is that of third generation mobile communications. This is of interest not just in itself but also because the process...
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