Eye-Fi, a company out of Mountain View, Calif. has raised $11 million in a second round of funding. Translink Capital and LMS Capital led the round with existing investors Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures participating. To date, the company has raised $17.5 million. The company makes memory cards with...
Eye-Fi, a company out of Mountain View, Calif. has raised $11 million in a second round of funding. Translink Capital and LMS Capital led the round with existing investors Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures participating. To date, the company has raised $17.5 million. The company makes memory cards with...
Money's drying up and networks are taking less risk. That's one of the messages coming out of the LATV Festival in Hollywood—and that's from the people offering encouragement, a panel of veteran TV executives, producers and talent. John Ferriter, SVP, William Morris Agency, was blunt: "They are in a...
Paramount Pictures is adding another feather to its mobile cap with a series of comics based on films from its catalog. Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, a movie based on a series of books by Louise Rennison, is the first mobile comic set for release. All of the comics...
Did anyone else catch this CTIA ad last night during the Democratic National Convention? It sure plays the harmonious tone like a pharmaceutical commercial and oversimplifies the wireless industry with broad strokes, but it's an interesting foray into the public realm nonetheless. The organization recently launched a new ad...
Debt financing and two rounds of funding – $4.9 million as recently as of January – weren't enough to keep Teleflip's Flipmail service afloat. Flipmail enabled email to be sent as a text message from a mobile device. GigaOm reports that the entire company has folded, but it's still...
A trio of new research reports detail the dramatic and swift rise of mobile in terms of subscription growth, mobile web usage and mobile payments for goods downloaded to mobile phones.On Pace For 5.2 Billion Mobile Subscribers By 2011Last year there were three times as many people using mobile...
Cricket Communications and Mexico's Telcel both announced two separate mobile video services today:-- Cricket is rolling out a flat-rate unlimited streaming mobile video service for $5 a month. Subscribers will get access to one-to-four-minute video clips including music videos, artist interviews, music documentaries, sports clips, entertainment news and Spanish-language...
Here's a lesson right out of the keep-your-enemies-close playbook. Nuance Communications filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Zi Corp. over SMS technology just days after it rejected the Burlington, MA-based company's all-cash $40.5 million takeover bid. Nuance and its Tegic subsidiary said it filed suit against Zi in a...
Did you get a text message or e-mail from the Barack Obama campaign late Friday night on the West Coast? I didn't and I'm supposing a few others didn't receive one either. Earlier this month the campaign said the vice president pick would first be announced via SMS and...
Did you get a text message or e-mail from the Barack Obama campaign late Saturday night on the West Coast? I didn't and I'm supposing a few others didn't receive one either. Earlier this month the campaign said the vice president pick would first be announced via SMS and...
The $100 million iFund investment pool, created by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has invested in five iPhone start-ups, NYT reports in a profile piece on Matt Murphy who heads up the endeavor. Pelago, the parent of mobile location-based service Whrrl, received an investment from KPCB before the iFund...
Cellphone sales were down 13 percent in Q2, but those that were sold were more feature-rich than the devices sold a year ago, according to a new report from the NPD Group. Handsets with Qwerty keyboards saw the greatest increase – jumping to 28 percent, up from 12 percent...
Thumbplay, a mobile content distributor, said it has signed a deal with MTV Mobile to offer exclusive content on its site. The deal includes at least 75,000 pieces of content, and adds up to 2,000 more every week. Are Traasdahl, Thumbplay's CEO and founder, told us a majority of...
The surprisingly popular iPhone application, Pandora, may not be around much longer. The company, which began online and quickly grew on the mobile front, lets users sample new music and create personalized radio stations that recommend other songs and artists based on hundreds of musical attributes. This is some...
Some potentially sad news today for music fans who like their music free, but don't want to risk the recording industry's wrath. In a candid interview with the Washington Post, Pandora founder Tim Westergren said the company is "approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision," a potential "last stand for...
Nuance Communications made an unsolicited bid for mobile ad and search firm Zi Corp. in an all-cash deal valued around $40.5 million. Burlington, MA-based Nuance, which makes speech-based technology for customer service, directory assistance and voice-activated commands on wireless devices, sent its proposal to Calgary-based Zi Corp on Thursday....
Most people in the U.S. still get their news from TV despite more than a decade-long surge in online news consumption, according to a new report pdf from the Pew Research Center. And despite the "explosion in cell phone ownership since the mid-90s," mobile hasn't had much of an...
Byline: Matt Kapko RCR Wireless News HiWire announced a diverse 24-channel lineup for its upcoming mobile TV broadcast trial in Las Vegas. The range of channels available on the platform immediately dwarfs the eight-channel lineup currently offered by rival MediaFLO USA....
Byline: Matt Kapko RCR Wireless News IThentic, a short-form production company that distributes online and in mobile, has announced its lineup for the 2007-08 season. It's the first such announcement since the online and mobile video company completed its...
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