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Qualcomm has denied reports that it is negotiating with Indian CDMA players, including Reliance Communications, on lowering royalty charges or chipset costs, The Hindu reports quoting the Press Trust of India news agency. “Qualcomm is committed to help the industry drive handset prices down and it involves multiple players and has nothing to do with [...]

MTC Group, the Middle Eastern telecom company, is an interesting operator to watch — the company recently launched several SMS-donation campaigns for the people of Lebanon. The PR strategy/philanthropy is a typical move of CEO Saad Al-Barrak, a passionate telecom wild-catter running networks in the Middle East, and Africa, and even Iraq. A few [...]

Last week Digital Chocolate was reported to have raised a new round of funding. When I talked to CEO Trip Hawkins last week he said that the reports were slightly inaccurate and that the company would announce the news this week. So today the company said it has raised $22.5 million (not the previously reported [...]

Limelight, the CDN darling for hot content startups, announced a monster round of $130 million in funding from Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, which we heard was in the works earlier this month. Limelight said it will spend the money on building out it’s infrastructure. The Tempe, Arizona-based company has been hit by a patent infringement [...]

Garageband.com, a San Francisco-based music community, holdover from Internet 1.0, has raised $2.5 million from Vinod Khosla’s Khosla Ventures and Bob “Daily Candy” Pitman, co-founder of MTV and former head of AOL. Other investors include Herbert Allen III of Allen & Company. Khosla and Bob Pittman will join the company’s Advisory Board alongside Talking [...]

For consumer electronics industry, digital home is the next big pot of gold, a pot so big that it has everyone from Apple (AAPL) to Microsoft (MSFT) to Intel (INTC) licking their chops. But it is Linux could emerge as one of the biggest winners in this bonanza.