Archive for 'Finance Deals' Category
France Telecom Makes $42b Offer for TeliaSonera
10 June 2008Consolidation in the mobile phone business continues with France Telecom’s announcement this week that it has begun negotiating to acquire TeliaSonera, Sweden’s incumbent telco, by offering some $42 billion in cash and shares, 39% more than TeliaSonera’s share price on April 15. TeliaSonera said its board of directors had rejected France Telecom’s proposal with chairman […]
Tapioca Mobile Gets Funding from Venrock
28 March 2008Tapioca Mobile said this week it received $5 million in Series A funding led by return investor Venrock.
Tapioca Mobile is a mobile content delivery network, and that’s about all we can say about the company thus far. Little information seems to be available about this stealth-mode startup, though we know that it received an undisclosed […]
Thumbplay Snags $18m, Plans International Expansion
24 March 2008Online mobile entertainment content retailer Thumbplay is looking to accelerate its growth plans and expand internationally in 2008 now that it’s raised $18 million in Series E funding.
The New York City-headquartered startup offers 80,000 pieces of mobile content including ringtones, wallpapers, games, videos, voice tones and text-based services.
With enough money in the kitty, Thumbplay executives […]
Microsoft-Yahoo - Perhaps the First Internet/Mobile Internet Combo
8 February 2008Rethink Research’s Peter White did the following analysis on the impact that Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo could have on the Internet, particularly the mobile Internet. For more information, please e-mail charles@riderresearch.com.
Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid to acquire Yahoo, and the hostile reaction from Google, has dominated the week’s technology news, and if the deal goes through, […]
This Week in Finance Deals
29 January 2008Momail
Mobile mail service Momail announced that at the end of its first round of funding it had procured $5.4 million, which will be used for expanding its services.
Fresco Microchip, Celtic House, Venture West
Fresco Microship, developers of RF, mixed, and digital signal processing circuits, picked up $14.3 million in Series B funding, led by Celtic House […]
This Week in Finance Deals
29 January 2008NetStreams, Austin Ventures
NetStreams, providers of IP network entertainment systems has
secured $18.2 million in series B funding from Austin Ventures.
Enforta, Bessemer Venture
Russian WiMAX operator Enforta announced $40 million gained in this
round of investment. One of the new investors is Bessemer Venture
Partners, one of America’s largest venture capital funds.
Broadband Enterprises, Velocity Interactive
Online video network Broadband Enterprises […]
Vodafone Spain, Openwave
20 December 2007Vodafone Spain has chosen Openwave Systems to provide its phones with a Web browser that formats Web sites for mobiles.
Verizon Wireless, ESPN, CBS, Fox
20 December 2007These giants have all teamed up to provide college football bowl games in full-length broadcast to mobiles through Verizon’s V CAST Mobile TV. They are covering 24 bowl games this season.
Streamezzo
20 December 2007Streamezzo, a Paris-based provider of mobile entertainment applications, has raised over $22 million in financing this round, thanks to the Kuwaiti group NTEC. This brings the company’s total funding to $48 million.
Juice Wireless
20 December 2007Juice Wireless, players in the mobile social networking market raised $6 million to fund the development of their JuiceCaster mobile community product. This funding increase was led by 21Ventures.