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If you haven't heard about the widget wars yet, you are about to. Last week, I moderated a panel at the Open Mobile Summit. The subject was "Apps in the Cloud," which explored the difference between accessing content through applications, which are downloaded to the phone, and content that...
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So, Twitter still believes it can figure out how to generate some revenues. Kara Swisher is reporting that the rumors about Facebook acquiring Twitter were not only true, but that talks between the microblogging company and the social-network site broke down three weeks ago. The social net was offering...
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Back when the iPhone 3G was new and the App Store had just launched, it didn't take much to get the enthusiastic user base to download your app. But four months, 5,500 apps and 200 million downloads later, it's a bit more complicated. John SanGiovanni, the co-founder and VP of product design...
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Mobile operators are falling over themselves to offer the latest mobile applications, from GPS services that help you locate your friends to chipsets that let you watch TV. So what is Verizon Wireless ( NYSE: VZ ) now touting? A remarkably un-high-tech service that lets subscribers send photos from their...
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In a bid to increase the amount of data its customers consume, Three UK launched its so-called "Facebook Phone" today--the INQ1--which Britain's smallest carrier and its handset partner INQ Mobile are calling the world's first social mobile phone. While the handset does indeed give...
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Loopt is either looking to cash in or cash out with the aid of an investment firm, TechCrunch reports . Allen & Co., which has successfully heralded some big sales in the tech space, was recently hired by the location-based social network to represent them in a sale or new round of funding. This...
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iSkoot, the company that puts Skype on mobile phones, has raised $19 million in a third round of funding from Vision Opportunity Master Fund, which led the round, and existing investors Charles River Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Jesselson Capital Corporation and ZG Ventures. The funding, which brings the...
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When tapping into the GPS coordinates of a mobile phone, it can be costly, especially when a company is charged each time someone looks up their location. To combat that, the mobile-social network provider Loopt said it is partnering with a Qualcomm ( NSDQ: QCOM ) subsidiary, which provides GPS data...
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Hutchison Whampoa is rolling out a 3G Facebook phone in the UK and Australia next week, just in time for the holiday season. The handset, which will have the social net integrated into it as well as instant messaging, email, and Skype, is being built by Hutchison's new mobile device subsidiary INQ...
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Korean handset maker LG (SEO: 066570) has struck a deal with RockeTalk to preload the Indian start-up's mobile social networking application on several handsets, including the LG KT610 and KF750 (Secret) handsets sold in India. The two handsets go on sale in November. RockeTalk's application...
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The $150 million BlackBerry Partners Fund has announced its first three investments totaling $16.7 million. They are: buzzd, a social network, Digby, a mobile storefront provider and WorldMate, a travel management tool. These three represent the fund's first investments, but last week, the investment...
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The BlackBerry Partners Fund, a $150 million pool of money focused on apps and services for the RIM-made device, had a little contest of its own (a la Google's Android developer challenge) and today awarded $150,000 from its venture fund to three companies: Poynt, Strands Social Player and Nobex...
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