Japanese gaming firm DeNA has announced that it has linked up with publisher Hasbro to bring the Transformers franchise to the 40 million users of its Mobage mobile social games platform. The news is a significant win for DeNA and one that is likely to help it continue to raise the visibility of Mobage,...
Daily Archives: July 17, 2012
‘It’s good to talk’ but Brits prefer to text, says report
It’s around 15 years since BT’s infamous ‘it’s good to talk’ adverts but the telecom market has changed irrevocably in the UK, to the point that today’s mobile phone owners are more inclined to send text messages than make a call, a report from Ofcom has found. Data from the UK communications industry regulator, captured last...
How new-look VMware should attack the emerging cloud landscape
VMware’s new CEO Pat Gelsinger. VMware’s core server virtualization business is under pressure in the cloud computing era — and the changes at the top — most notably the ascension of Pat Gelsinger to CEO and the sidelining of Paul Maritz, may have been made to address that situation. From the time EMC bought VMware in 2003, there...
Samsung invests $5M in 4G data-triage startup Stoke
Mobile data gateway maker Stoke already has two impressive investors from the telecom world, Japan’s NTT DoCoMo and India’s Reliance Communications, but it’s adding a third. Samsung is making a $5 million strategic investment, betting that its LTE data triage and security technology has a bright future. Stoke is hardly a new startup. It...
The Inside Story On Why Kevin Rose Never Had A Big Hit (GOOG)
Flickr / Joi Last week, Betaworks, a small, privately held company in New York bought a website called Digg for $500,000. This was shocking news to the Internet industry. Just six years ago, Digg was a hot startup fielding big buyout offers. News Corp. wanted to buy it for $60 million. Al Gore took...
Well played, EMC.
EMC might be smarter than we thought it was. You already know the news — Paul Maritz out as VMware CEO, in as EMC chief strategist. Pat Gelsinger, former EMC COO, now in as VMware CEO. The companies are planning to spin out their cloud computing and big data assets into a separate company....
Dropbox Acquires Small Tablet Marketing Company TapEngage
TapEngage, a San Francisco startup that enables advertisers and publishers to collaborate on tablet-optimized advertising, has been acquired by Dropbox. Terms of the deal have not been released. TapEngage founders Matt Holden and Sean Lynch broke the news on their blog today. We started TapEngage because we’re really excited about the potential for new mobile...
Cybersecurity legislation will soon be on the march in the US Senate
According to The Hill, word has is that tomorrow Senator Reid will announce the timing of the coming vote on Senator Lieberman’s cybersecurity bill. Lieberman himself has noted that it should occur before the end of next week. Previously, Lieberman had argued that unless a bill was taken on by the end of July,...
5 companies to watch from 500 Startups’ Demo Day
Dave McClure introduces the startups at 500 Startups demo day. 27 companies made their pitches at the 500 Startups demo day on Tuesday in Mountain View, and it was a diverse bunch of startups that took the stage, emphasizing mobile technology and a large number of shopping-related and kid-oriented apps in their pitches to...
Will AT&T Charge For 3G FaceTime? CEO Randall Stephenson Says It’s ‘Too Early’ To Know
ATT CEO Randall Stephenson took the stage this afternoon at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, where he was asked about a recent report in 9toMac that ATT might charge customers extra if they want to use FaceTime over 3G cellular networks (a feature that was announced for iOS 6). The company previously...