Funding daily roundup: Games, tunes, e-commerce, call centers, and ads

Today was a big money day for startup funding -- and post-startup growth-stage and late-stage fund funding.

Evernote continues global crusade, offers 60M Germans Premium services for free

The king of digital note-taking services partners with Deutsche Telekom to make its subscribers eligible for a free year of Evernote Premium.

T-Mobile to get some Apple devices next year — avoids mentioniong iPhone, iPad for now

T-Mobile customers may finally be able to get their hands on an iPhone directly from the carrier next year.

Deutsche Telekom confirms T-Mobile/MetroPCS merger ‘talks’

Deutsche Telekom has confirmed that its American wireless carrier T-Mobile is in talks to team up with MetroPCS to create a single company.

T-Mobile keeps bleeding subscribers: loses 557,000 in Q2

There's no end in sight for T-Mobile's subscriber drain. After losing 510,000 contracted subscribers in the first quarter of 2012, T-Mobile announced this morning that it has lost 557,000 in its second quarter.

Former T-Mobile CEO to head Vodafone in Europe

A day after resigning as chief executive at T-Mobile USA, Philipp Humm said he’ll lead rival Vodafone’s efforts in Europe, starting October 1.

Humm will become Vodafone’s chief executive in northern and central Europe for areas such as Britain, Germany, …

T-Mobile loses 510K subscribers in Q1, but profits are finally on the rise

T-Mobile is still bleeding subscribers — parent company Deutsche Telekom announced this morning that it lost 510,000 subscribers in the first quarter — but the fourth-place wireless carrier is finally seeing profits once again.

T-Mobile earnings were up 7.2 percent …

T-Mobile’s next big hope: A potential merger with MetroPCS

T-Mobile is acting tough with its edgy new marketing campaigns, but the fourth-place U.S. wireless carrier is still in a vulnerable position after its acquisition by AT&T fell apart, and it’s losing subscribers like crazy.

So what is T-Mobile’s parent …

Boku locks mobile billing deals with all four major U.S. carriers

Boku, the company that allows you to pay for online purchases with your mobile phone number, is announcing today it has signed a deal with Sprint, allowing it to process mobile payments with all of the major U.S. mobile phone …

Lookout Mobile hooks up with Deutsche Telekom to protect European phones

Europe mobile phones are getting a boost of safety today, as mobile security company Lookout Mobile partners with Deutsche Telekom to armor all mobile phones under the carrier with mobile malware protection.

Lookout Mobile refers to itself as a “device …

Ouch: T-Mobile laying off 1,900 workers, more cuts to come

Fourth-place U.S. wireless company T-Mobile will soon lay off around 1,900 workers due to the closure of seven call centers around the country.

T-Mobile has been in a precarious position ever since AT&T’s offer to acquire the company fell through …

After dismal Q4, T-Mobile reveals a $4B “challenger strategy” to roll out LTE in 2013

T-Mobile may have taken a beating in its fourth quarter earnings yesterday, but there is hope on the horizon. The company announced a new “challenger strategy” that involves a massive revamp of its business and a $4 billion investment to …

Jive still makes enterprise tech cool, reports Q4 earnings

Jive Software reported its first earnings as a public company today, and introduced a secret new product called “Project Thunder.”

In the fourth quarter of 2011, Jive increased its revenue by 53 percent over the same period last year, earning …

Headset maker Jawbone raises another $40M, bringing its total to $210M raised

Jawbone, the maker of Bluetooth headsets for cell phones and other cool hardware, announced today that it has raised $40 million.

That amount is one of the biggest raised by a mobile hardware company, but San Francisco-based Jawbone has always …

In AT&T breakup, T-Mobile gets 3G roaming deal and wireless spectrum

The dust is settling from yesterday’s news that AT&T has given up its T-Mobile acquisition plans, and it turns out even a failed merger is quite expensive.

Because its proposed $39 billion merger fell through, AT&T now has to give …