It seems that manufacturing iPads is not as good a business as selling them. Apple sells as many iPads as it can get from the factories and with a good profit. But the Chinese contract electronics assembler Hon Hai — …
A couple of days after Apple announced its iCloud storage service, Microsoft wants to remind us that its SkyDrive cloud service has already been around for a while and will have more iCloud-like features in the near future.
In a …
With all the talk of a tech bubble, it’s not surprising to come across a startup that’s explicitly focused on bubbles.
Not outsized valuations, that is, but visual bubbles. Bublaa, which launches Wednesday, organizes discussion topics as graphical bubbles. Each …
French startup TriOviz, which lets you view 3D on a non-3D display, has raised $1 million in funding for expanding it’s operations to the United States.
TriOviz claims to have the only solution on the market today that lets you …
MobileIron just announced that it has raised $20 million in growth capital to accelerate global growth. The company creates mobile device management and security tools for enterprise systems.
The financing round included MobileIron’s current investors Foundation Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, …
Web storage service Dropbox has signed deals with Japanese mobile carrier Softbank and cell phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson to accelerate its international expansion in Asia and Europe.
Dropbox’s mobile application will be preloaded on Sony Ericsson’s Android smartphones on European …
Amazon and Google got their cloud music services started before Apple. But Apple seems to be outshining the competition again with its cloud service — at least according to what’s been reported so far. It’s been making deals with record …
The BlackBerry PlayBook by RIM has been performing extremely well by selling approximately 250,000 units during its first moth of sales, according to RBC Capital Markets Managing Director Mike Abramsky.
That’s way ahead of Motorola’s flagship Xoom tablet, which took …
Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates was pushing the software giant to acquire internet video chat company Skype. The $8.5 billion deal was announced last week.
The acquisition is the largest Microsoft has ever done. And it was a great …
The world’s largest chipmaker Intel will make its way to smartphones early next year, the company’s CEO Paul Otellini revealed today to investors.
He also rejected the idea that the company would adopt rival manufacturer ARM’s technology for the mobile …
Mobile phone giant Nokia will finally kill its Ovi brand. The company’s mobile services portfolio, including apps, maps, and music, will be re-branded as Nokia Services.
This sounds like a smart move in many ways. Nokia’s smartphones will be using …
Facebook users can now click links from other users with a little more trust. Facebook and crowdsourced website reputation service Web of Trust (WOT) begin collaboration today to give Facebook’s over 500 million users reliable protection against dubious web links.…
Times have not been good for Japanese-Swedish cell phone maker Sony Ericsson. The company has been stuck with disappointing figures and mediocre products. Now it is focusing on Android smartphones and that’s paying off, says Jan Uddenfeldt, chief technology officer …
India-based smartphone and tablet application developer Sourcebits has raised $10 million in first round funding. The investors — the company’s first — are Sequoia Capital and IDG Ventures India, who each invested $5 million.
Sourcebits will use the funding to …
Near-field communication (NFC) chips and Nokia phones with the Windows Phone 7 operating system will be the big things driving the smartphone market forward in the next couple of years.
At least that’s what Adam Blum, the CEO and founder …
It seems that there’s still room for independent mobile advertising networks. Mobile advertising company JumpTap announced today that it has completed a $25 million financing round. The capital will be used to recruit new employees and for product and technology …
Here we go again: An AT&T representative is now saying that Apple has “officially” informed the carrier that there will be no new iPhone this June or July, reports MacRumors.
This latest gossip is in line with the rumors that …
Apple is the most valuable tech company in the world. And it will be the first company overall to achieve a valuation of one trillion dollars, according to investor James Altrucher of Formula Capital on Yahoo Finance. Apple is currently …
Looks like Samsung’s Galaxy S II — the successor to the company’s popular Android smartphones from last year — could be a worldwide hit.
Pre-orders of the Galaxy S II were over 200,000 between Monday of last week and the …
The success of downloadable smartphone apps will continue at least through the next five years. A new study from ABI Research estimates that app industry will achieve 44 billion cumulative downloads by 2016.
If the forecast is correct, it means …
