Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has done a number of strategic investments over the years, and usually big amounts in big-issue-tackling companies, like powerline internet, Wimax, and others. It even has a…

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Skyfire threw another hat in the mobile browser ring recently with the launch of its second private beta program. So far the new beta has been pretty limited in reach,…

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deCarta, the San Jose-based provider of technology for location-based services, says its third round totaled $20 million. An initial $6 million of this round, coming from Deutsche Telekom’s (NYSE: DT)…

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A rare strategic investment from Associated Press: it has invested in mobile news services start up Verve Wireless. The first round of $3 million included Associated Press, Iron Capital, and…

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Good luck getting anyone on this panel to say mobile is heading toward a bust, but you have to give the organizers props for at least raising the question. The…

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Here at the MobileBeat 2008 conference in Sunnyvale, Calif., Matt Marshall, editor-in-chief of VentureBeat, dove right into the first panel of the day and fired off a series of questions…

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I’ll be covering the MobileBeat 2008 conference Thursday afternoon at the Plug & Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, Calif. It will be a quick trip, but I’d like to meet…

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In May, rumors spread that Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and AT&T (NYSE: T) may be interested in buying a stake in Huawei Technologies’ handset division for up to $2 billion. The…

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A company called Chatterous has raised less than $500,000 in angel funding to help users create private groups that they can chat with using text messages, email and instant messaging,…

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German mobile social network Aka-Aki, which uses Bluetooth to do location-aware proximity networking and is also available in English, has raised a small investment of an undisclosed size from Crea…

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Riot Games, a two-year-old independent games developer and publisher, has received $7 million in a round of funding from Benchmark Capital and FirstMark Capital. The company also brought on two…

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Another upstart mobile social media platform, Next2Friends, will announce a “multimillion-dollar” first funding round in the next four to six weeks. Term sheets are being signed for the company to…

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Valhalla Partners, a Vienna, Va.-based venture firm with $440 million under management, announced today that it has hired Saj Cherian, a former executive from Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) and…

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Mobile ad and multimedia technology provider Mobixell Networks has raised $6 million in its fourth round of funding from existing investors Apax, Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital and smac partners. The…

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Holland’s Nimbuzz, another mobile app that hopes to aggregate all kinds of messaging networks and VoIP services, has raised a $15 million second round to add Windows Mobile, iPhone and…

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Twitter is for the masses. It’s a site where anyone can talk about anything, as long as it takes less than 140 characters. But now, it appears the next evolution…

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Ithaca, NY-based Instinctiv said today that it is coming out of stealth mode to announce its financing and its first product the Instinctiv Shuffle, which can be downloaded to the…

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Paris-based mobile IM firm Miyowa said today it has raised $8 million in a second round of venture capital from Techfund and Credit Agricole Private Equity. To date, the company…

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British-German mobile messaging operator TynTec has raised a “significant minority investment” from global VC HarbourVest Partners, it announced today. The six-year old company--which counts a number of operators and brands…

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Xendex, a mobile game developer in Europe, said today that it raised EUR 2.3 million ($3.6 million) in venture capital from Pontis Venture Partners and other angel investors. The company,…

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In India, online portal Rediff (NSDQ: REDF) is investing an undisclosed amount in Mumbai-based Twitter-clone site Vakow....the service allows for users to receive SMS from friends and send updates to…

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Every once in a while you find a company that has the odds stacked against them. TravellingWave, which occupies a three-room office just outside of downtown Seattle, has just five…

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Finally Twitter announces its funding. The popular microblogging/messaging service says its newest investors are Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos, via his Bezos Expeditions fund. That Spark was participating was already…

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GreatCall, parent of the senior-focused MVNO Jitterbug, has raised a $38 million third round led by Court Square Ventures. Past backers Steelpoint Capital, Charles River Ventures, Nauta Capital led the…

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Menlo Park, Calif.-based Jaxtr, a mobile social networking company, said today it has raised $10 million in a second round of venture capital led by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. It…

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