Nokia Siemens Networks will buy Motorola’s wireless infrastructure business for $1.2 billion, which will allow NSN to increase its presence in two key wireless markets — the U.S. and Japan. It also gives the Finnish company ammunition to fight off competitors, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei. Read More »
Archive for July 2010
Today on the Net: About 300 million Chinese residents tune into video on the web, Adap.tv added multiple new publishers as customers of its ad platform and cable profits could be boosted by higher affiliate fees due to TV Everywhere services. Read More »
It’s typhoon season again in the Philippines, and just this week I was left with no electricity and no running water for a little over 24 hours. But the ordeal isn’t over. I will be experiencing several power outages within the… Read More »
Odds and ends from around the greentech web that we’re reading this morning. Read More »
Sweden has overtaken the U.S. in a survey that measures how well a country uses broadband, primarily because it has stagnated on the consumer broadband side as compared to other top-performing nations. Slower home broadband connections and lower graduation rates have contributed to the change. Read More »
The way people talk, we’d be forgiven for thinking that social networking is one big popularity contest. Get as many contacts as possible, regardless of whether we’ve ever met, or heard of them before. Is that really the point of social networking? Read More »
Foursquare is in talks with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft about deals involving the service’s location-based checkin data, CEO Dennis Crowley told The Telegraph. None of the search providers have confirmed this, but such deals would make sense given their interest in making their results more real-time. Read More »
Netflix announced this morning plans for expansion into its first international market, with the upcoming launch of a streaming-only subscription service in Canada that will allow susbcribers to watch a wide variety of movies and TV shows through PCs and a number of connected devices. Read More »
Puppet Labs has raised a $5 million second round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which brings the total funding for open source configuration management software provider to more than $7 million. The company also announced the latest version of the Puppet software. Read More »
A couple things were holding up Ian Wright, founder of electric drive train startup Wrightspeed and part of the founding team of Tesla Motors, when he drove his prototype hybrid at the Laguna Seca racetrack: street tires, battery heat, and Tesla cars in his way. Read More »
In an effort to develop a standard cloud computing platform, Rackspace is open sourcing some of its key technologies and along with NASA is starting a new open source cloud platform project, OpenStack. Nearly 25 vendors have signed on for the new open source effort. Read More »
The venture industry is contracting at the moment, with overall dollars going into venture capital funds shrinking by 57 percent in the second quarter from the year before. Amid this background DFJ Mercury, a Houston-based affiliate fund of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, raised a $70-million second fund. Read More »
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