The U.K. wireless auction was just announced, but interested companies are already chiming in with some of their plans. We mentioned that BT might use this as an excuse to get back into the mobile market. The British Independent paper has more details: BT… Read More »
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The mobile search startup JumpTap has gotten a deal with Virgin Mobile to power the carrier’s mobile search plans. The service will start in February and JumpTap will power both search for mobile content within the carrier’s portal, as well as across the… Read More »
Women-oriented portal Glam Media has raised a Series C round worth $18.5 million from DAG Ventures, Accel Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, WaldenVC, and Information Capital. Year-old Glam had grown a lot faster than we expected, and currently has 7 million unique visitors per month.… Read More »
Check your inboxes – there might be an address and job description change on Konstantin Guericke’s profile page. The co-founder of LinkedIn (and VP of marketing) has left the professional social network to take the helm at Jaxtr, a Palo Alto-based start-up, that… Read More »
Stumbling for good videos, Stumble Upon launches new video discovery engine. Online apps might be all that, as Bill G says, but they are not without their shortcomings. Ask WWD: Am I a Web Designer or a Web Developer? Midnight Inbox, wait for version… Read More »
So it is not Facebook or Metacafe, but it is still an acquisition. Yahoo Kimo, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yahoo is buying Taiwanese weblogs and online photo sharing company, Wretch, according to Baku Today. Some newspapers are putting the total value of the deal… Read More »
I’m up at Microsoft HQ with a group dubbed “leaders in various aspects of the web community” for a day that closed with an hour-long conversation with Bill Gates. Gates opened with remarks about recent products, as well as the coming ascension of Ray Ozzie and… Read More »
Qualcomm said today that former Sprint COO Len Lauer will join QUALCOMM as a corporate executive vice president and as group president overseeing divisions like: wireless business solutions, MEMS technologies, government technologies and the mobile TV subsidiary, MediaFLO USA. Qualcomm also appointed Qualcomm exec… Read More »
Skype, this morning announced a new pricing structure – unlimited SkypeOut calling for $30 an entire year – which may not be a bad idea if you have local US numbers and have to call someone from say Asia or Europe. The news has generated a… Read More »
The Venice Project, the much-awaited Internet TV project from the founders of Skype, started bringing in outside beta testers today. The beta program will be viral, with each user able to distribute invites to new testers. As soon as we give it a spin… Read More »
We put up a post late last night at NewTeeVee about Clipsync, which has $5.5 million in funding from DFJ to make a synchronized video viewing platform. If all goes well, no more trying to press play on your TiVos at the *exact* same… Read More »
Rita has moved inland. We all went to bed last night at 11 pm and all was well. We were awakened this morning at 5:20 am when the power loss alarm went off in the house. No TV stations are live on the portable TV. EVDO… Read More »
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