Back in March, Nokia invested $35 million into Obopay, a start-up that lets people transmit money to one another via text message, making it the single largest round of funding given to any such service this year. Apparently that move was designed to bolster Nokia’s own platform, as the mobile company announced a new mobile [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on August 28th, 2009 @ 10:00 am
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Fresh off the heels of last week’s blockbuster deal with Yahoo!, Microsoft announced a new partnership with Finnish cell phone manufacturer Nokia, another attempt to go after the top player in the space. While the Yahoo! deal was about tackling Google’s dominance of the search market, this newest collaboration takes aim at Research In Motion’s [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 13th, 2009 @ 11:45 am
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As our culture shifts towards greater immediacy and connectivity enabled by faster mobile networks and loaded handsets, we’re witnessing a profound change in consumer expectations that is having an effect across multiple industries from finance and technology to media and entertainment. Much of this is being fueled by the development of applications that seek to [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on July 22nd, 2009 @ 4:31 pm
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Known as the leading manufacturer of computer chips, it was only a matter of time before Intel set its sights on the mobile technology industry.
With China’s plans to spend billions on healthcare reform, a great deal of financial resources have been set aside to go into technological upgrades.