-- Android phone receives FCC approval: The HTC Dream phone, which will be the first phone using Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) Android operating system, has received FCC approval, according to Engadget.…

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Verisign, which has pared down the company over the last year, has seen another CEO change: William Roper, who had been president and CEO for a bit more than a…

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Rafat was almost right on the button. In a meeting today, Jamba decided to stop developing its own mobile games, so is shutting its Ojom development unit. Berlin-based Ojom is…

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What will happen tomorrow at Jamba? The mobile content company which is majority owned by News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and rest owned by Verisign, has a big meeting tomorrow, according…

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News Corp/VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN) mobile entertainment JV Jamster/Jamba has hired Endemol International’s digital media director William Linders as its content EVP, based at the Berlin HQ. Linders had spent seven…

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Verisign, which sold off a 51 percent stake in Jamba/Jamster to News Corp in early 2007, has released some more details on developments since, in its 10-K, filed last week…

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Updated: This has been officially announced: Among the divisions it will divest: communications, billing and commerce. it will now focus on its Web site-naming and Internet security services. More details…

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VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN) blamed is Q2 net losses and revenue decline on restructuring charges. The network security company posted a net loss of $4.7 million, or 2 cents per share,…

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A big surprise overhaul of top management at Verisign: Stratton Sclavos, who has been with the company for 12 years as CEO, has resigned from all his position, including board,…

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It’s been eight months since the startling announcement that News Corp. was acquiring 51 percent of Jamba from VeriSign for $187.5 million as part of a JV and more than…

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Verisign, which earlier this week did a restructuring of its business units, has reported its Q406 earnings...and the relevant portions for us: -- Within its Communications Services Group, the Communications…

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New Corp, which last year announced taking a 51 percent stake in Verisign-owned mobile content firm Jamba (in U.S. operating as Jamster), will close the deal on Jan 31st, the…

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Verisign has done a major reorg of its business structure and executive team. It will combine its sales and consulting-services teams in one division and assemble its products in a…

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Not sure how far reaching effect this will have, but at least M-Qube now has deeper pockets being part of Verisign: A class action lawsuit was filed this week against…

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Is the ringtone dead? One way or the other - it’s no concern to Verisign’s Germany-based Jamba (also known as Jamster outside Germany). The company - widely recognized as the…

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Jamba, known outside Europe as Jamster, continues to add to the stockpile of content available on its German music portal. This time the company has introduced spoken word content ranging…

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Jeff Glass, the founder and CEO of mobile marketing and applications firm M-Qube, which earlier this year was sold to Verisign, has left the company and has joined one of…

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The Verisign earnings call for the company’s third quarter results has given some insight into its business. As mentioned in our previous piece, out of the $89 million Verisign earned…

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Proof, or at least early indications, that News Corp, which last week bought majority in Jamba, would let it work with rival companies: it is wooing partners for Jamba Music,…

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The announcement of a News Corp.-VeriSign Jamba joint venture left a lot of questions unanswered. We can fill in some of the blanks now thanks to a joint interview with…

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The Verisign side of things: -- Earnings: Verisign’s Q2: Jamster Stabilizing; M-Qube Generates $12 M For Q2 -- Verisign’s Mobile Content Revenues Keeps Tanking; Profits About Steady --  Analyst: Verisign’s…

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News Corp, in search of a strategy on the mobile side of things after pioneering some early efforts in mobile content, has bought a majority (51 percent) of Verisign-owned mobile…

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That’s a significant difference of $16 million, and when the deal was announced in March, $250 million was said to be the official sale price. Now, in its Q2 earnings…

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Verisign has posted its Q2 earnings for 2006, and done the analyst call, and in terms of its mobile content business the word “stabilized” was used a few dozen times,…

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Nokia is continuing to use content to differentiate its handsets from competing brands (both handset brands and telcos). It has launched the Nokia Content Discoverer on S60 and Series 40…

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