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Sprint, after breaking up with Clearwire last November and walking away from the proposed WiMAX joint venture, is rethinking its position, according to the Wall Street Journal.
There is some talk that the two companies could form a joint venture and bring in outside investors, including large technology companies like Google and Intel.
Good move, [...]

Mobile messaging company mig33 has raised $13.5 million to push its mobile social networking platform into the U.S. After receiving a $10 million round of funding last year, the company moved its operations from Australia to Burlingame, Calif. Now, with an eye on what CEO and Co-founder Steve Goh calls the “different dynamics” of the [...]

As Congress resumes the debate on wiretapping legislation, People for the American Way and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have put together Stop the Spying, a site aimed at drawing attention to legislation that would grant immunity to the telecoms for complying with illegal, warrantless wiretapping of American citizens.

Courtesy of Brad Feld’s blog, we found a terrific set of posts today on the topic of burnout, an affliction that nearly all startup founders experience at some point in their careers. While it appeals to our entrepreneurial romanticism to “burn the candle at both ends,” burnout from working too hard can be far more […]

The Auctions continue at a slow pace, and at the end of the round 10, there was one new bid for the nationwide package in the 22 MHz in the C-block. This bid came in at $3.4 billion. Several new bids for the individual licenses in the C-block also materialized.

The money spigot for virtualization is still flowing, with Goldman Sachs & Co. leading a $12-million round of funding for Menlo Park, Calif.-based Pano Logic. The startup virtualizes the desktop to the point where none of the client computers needs an operating system. IT managers find that sexy, but Pano will have to differentiate […]