UPDATE: Flarion, the so-called 4G broadband wireless less company which has been subject of great media coverage is finally coming stateside, except it cannot talk about it. Many of you must have read my post from yesterday on Nextel’s broadband efforts, but what I forgot to… Read More »
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Vonage, has raised another $40.0 million in series C financing round led by 3i and co-led by Meritech Capital Partners, bringing total investment in the company over the past three months to $75 million. J. Sanford (Sandy) Miller, managing director with 3i, will join Vonage’s Board… Read More »
MP3.com, whose assets were bought by CNET Networks, is in for a renaming and relaunch in March, according to this post. The site will be renamed music.download.com, and re-launched in March. Aaron Newton, product manager for the new site said: “When music.download.com launches in March of… Read More »
AT&T is pairing up with 7-Eleven stores and offer the AT&T PrePaid Web Cents card for users to pay for RealNetworks music. ItĚüs a reflection that sometimes the virtual online world needs a real world hook for commerce. The RealRhapsody card, available at participating 7-Eleven… Read More »
A slightly off-kilter proposal by P2P lobbying group on monetizing file-swapping for music companies. Under the plan, record labels would encode their songs with copy-protection technology so users would have to pay a small fee, between 80 cents and 40 cents, to listen to them. Prolific song-swappers… Read More »
Level 3, for the longest time had denied this – despite being a broadband company, a bulk of its revenues came from potatoes and meat business of selling dial-up access for wholesale. Its biggest customer was AOL, though the likes of Earthlink, NetZero etc are also… Read More »
This morning I had posted about the chances of Vodafone and NTT in the AT&T Wireless sweep stakes. Today I heard from Allan Tumolillo, COO of the independent financial analyst firm Probe Financial Associates. Now he is one smart cookie. He predicts that AT&T Wireless is… Read More »
