Samsung Electronics is considering buying U.S. PC and mobile memory card maker SanDisk, according to a Korean online report (*Google* translation of the story here), and then later confirmed by…

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Mobile voice and chat startup iSkoot has made a small acquisition: it has bought social IM aggregator client Social.im, according to Techcrunch. iSkoot was the first company to work with…

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Russian mobile call-back service EZtalk has received 100 million rubles ($4 million) of investment from VTB Venture Fund. Owned by Simbiotel, the service saves money on international mobile calls and…

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Vibes Media, a Chicago-based mobile marketing company, plans to announce today that it has raised $15 million from Fidelity Ventures in its first round of capital. Vibes will use the…

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Earlier this year, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) surprised us all when Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers announced it would support the iPhone by creating a standalone $100 million iFund focused on…

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Paramount Pictures, the Viacom-owned movie studio, has made its first gaming related acquisition: it has bought Seattle-based game developer ScreenLife, the creator of the popular DVD game “Scene It?”. Financial…

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Depending on who you ask, they’ll say Symbian is either up or down. In its second-quarter results released today, it shipped 19.6 million units, a 5 percent increase over the…

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Cyriac Roeding, the former EVP of mobile at CBS (NYSE: CBS), who has been documenting his just concluded mobile world tour for us, has joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,…

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Linktone (NSDQ: LTON), a Chinese mobile entertainment company, reported revenues of $19.1 million in the second quarter, increasing about 63 percent from $11.7 million in the same period a year…

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Inter has acquired London-based Opened Hand, a software startup which specializes in mobile Linux development and services. Opened Hand will focus on participating in the Moblin Software Platform community, which…

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Italian mobile content company Buongiorno released financial results for the first half of the year today, reporting that both revenues and operating profits are up in the six-month period, but…

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Mobile social network myGamma’s parent BuzzCity is getting a $10 million funding from South African media group Naspers, with the aim of investing in applications that can leverage partnership opportunities.…

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Cambridge, MA.-based JumpTap, a white-label mobile search and advertising company, plans to announce today that it has raised $26 million in a fourth round of funding, bringing its overall total…

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Qik, the popular-among-bloggers mobile video streaming service, has received new funding from Marc Andreessen and his longtime business partner Ben Horowitz. Andreessen is the founder of Ning, and Horowitz is…

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Here’s a lesson right out of the keep-your-enemies-close playbook. Nuance Communications filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Zi Corp. over SMS technology just days after it rejected the Burlington, MA-based…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has done an undisclosed amount of strategic investment in already-heavily backed online and now mobile HD video tech provider Move Networks. This is technically part of its…

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Jakob Kuznicki, a former executive at Jamba, also called Jamster in some countries, said he has launched Prizemo, a company that is pitching TV shows involving mobile participation to networks…

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Twistbox, the mobile entertainment firm which is owned by OTC-traded Mandalay Media, is in the process of buying out European mobile content firm AMV Holding. For now, this is an…

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The $100 million iFund investment pool, created by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has invested in five iPhone start-ups, NYT reports in a profile piece on Matt Murphy who heads…

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Belmont, Calif.-based IXI Mobile, which makes Ogo mobile devices, has cut 40 employees or 25 percent of its staff and is closing facilities to save money, San Francisco Business Times…

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MoFuse, a service that lets bloggers deploy mobile versions, has raised an unspecified seed round from The Slater Technology Fund, a VC fund backed by the State of Rhode Island.…

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Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) and French-Italian chipmaker STMicroelectronics announced Wednesday that they were merging their wireless chip and software businesses to create a joint venture that will end up supplying four…

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Reliance ADA, the scary-big Indian telecom/media/energy giant which is already making strides in Hollywood through its Dreamworks deal, has been looking for mobile content deals in U.S. for some time…

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Nuance Communications, which develops voice-recognition software, said today it is acquiring privately-held SNAPin, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company, which builds instructional software for smartphones that helps carriers avoid service phone calls…

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The surprisingly popular iPhone application, Pandora, may not be around much longer. The company, which began online and quickly grew on the mobile front, lets users sample new music and…

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