GigaOM

By Robert Young
In the latest (July) issue of Wired magazine, Rupert Murdoch claims that Google…
“…could have bought MySpace three months before we did for half the price. They thought, ‘It’s nothing special. We can do that.’”

RIM, the makers of the highly addictive Blackberry device has gone 3G. The company today launched 8707, a version of its very popular 8700 series device in Ireland that runs on Vodafone’s UMTS Network. RIM claims it can be used as a broadband modem that can be connected to the laptops.
RIM needed to make this [...]

South Korean companies have a pretty interesting plan to turn their version of (mobile) WiMAX aka WiBro into a global standard: go after some of the fastest growing emerging markets, and get the necessary scale to compete with rivals, mostly from the US. A few months of making a WiBro play in Brazil, South Korean [...]

If venture investors are any indicator then both Akimbo and video on demand over broadband is about to hit big time.
The San Mateo-based start-up has raised $15.5 million in series C financing from new investors, Cisco Systems, AT&T and venture capital firm, Blueprint Ventures. Existing investors - Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, [...]

Rafat Ali, the founder and editor of ContentNext Media Inc., the Santa Monica, Calif.-based company that publishes PaidContent, Content Sutra and MocoNews has raised venture capital from veteran VC Alan Patricof’s new firm, GreyCroft Partners. The Wall Street Journal reports that the investment is less than $1 million. Mr. Patricof was original backer of Apple [...]

Bill Gates, the founder and chairman was included in Business 2.0’s 50 Who Matter List, not for being the software guru, but for his work as a philanthropist. He recently announced that he was going to leave Microsoft in two years and focus entirely on The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Perhaps, Bill’s plans to focus [...]