Comscore’s latest search engine rankings reveal that Microsoft’s newest effort Bing is taking a little — but just a little — market share from Yahoo in the U.S.
Bing moved 0.4 percent over the last month to account for 8.4 …
Aloqa, a mobile search company that sends you information about events, friends and other data based on your location, launched its first product today at MobileBeat: an app for Android-based devices.
The company also announced $1.5 million in first-round funding …
Spinvox, the voice-to-text startup, has been on a roll: $100 million in funding from an impressive list of backers; then, a key deal with Telefonica covering its Latin America mobile operations, which bump its userbase to 150 milion (with some …
Symbian, the company that makes operating systems for a large number of the world’s mobile phones, today will be announcing the launch of Horizon, its own path into the thick forest of app stores.
The company will make the announcement …
Amazon is stealing a march on the nascent e-reader market with its Kindle device in the U.S. But as new e-readers enter the market in Europe — just today, Borders launched its eBook product in the UK, made by Elonex …
Ever since Deutsche Telekom’s chief financial officer Timotheus Hoettges valued his company’s underperforming T-Mobile UK unit at $5.4 billion in May, there have been a swirl of rumors surrounding a possible sell-off. Those rumors have taken off in the last …
Government-backed stimulus packages are expected to give a major boost to cleantech companies, supposedly starting in September. A total of $184.9 billion has been earmarked for green initiatives worldwide, and some 65.7 percent of that is going to energy verticals …
Spinvox, a voice-recognition startup based in London, has landed a deal with Spanish mobile operator Telefonica to provide the mobile giant with voice-to-text technology. The agreement cover’s Telefonica’s operations in Europe and Latin America, which total some 100 million subscribers, …
European venture capital investments into clean technology companies are small potatoes compared the U.S., but they’re picking up.
More than 20 new funds invest in the European cleantech sector every month, according to a new study from VB Research. And …
Sony Ericsson may be late to the game when it comes to launching an app store for its mobile phones, but it’s surging ahead in what it thinks might be another major industry trend: green devices.
The handset maker yesterday …
Even though cleantech investing in Europe and Israel is down more than 30 percent from last year’s $1.8 billion, the sector is surpassing IT to become the second largest venture capital category on the continent (biotech remains at the top).…
Some business models are so implausible that it’s only a matter of time before they implode, or search for a crutch — as is the case for British company Blyk, a “free” mobile virtual network operator (basically a reseller of …
Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile has banked on being the first operator to launch the much-hyped Google Android phone. But that strategy’s falling short for at least one of its subsidiaries. Today, Deutsche Telekom reported that its mobile division lost $849 million, …
Twitter traffic is growing by more that 1,000 percent a year, with some pundits estimating the company’s value at up to $1 billion. Monetization remains the sticking point. And while the Twitter folks themselves have yet to present a formal …
European cleantech is finally feeling the funding crunch. Market analysts at the Cleantech Group released a report today showing that investment in the sector during the first quarter fell to $281 million, an 11 percent drop from the previous quarter …
