Mobile gold-rush continues: Qualcomm offers $550,000 in mobile startup competition
Qualcomm, the largest wireless chip supplier, has announced it will offer $550,000 to four companies in a business plan competition.
Called the QPrize, the competition comes at a time when Qualcomm is seeking to maintain its spot as the mobile industry’s biggest player (ahead of folks like Texas Instruments, STM and Infineon), now that a whole range of new smartphones and devices have emerged.
Every mobile player, it seems is, developing a “platform,” and Qualcomm doesn’t want… Continue Reading
Roundup: Murdoch on media and politics, Intelius a scam?, and more
Rupert Murdoch holds forth on newspapers, Obama and Hollywood release dates: What if Rupert Murdoch were to wake up tomorrow and discover that he was the owner of a metropolitan newspaper? “I would run,” the News Corp. owner said today at the All Things D conference. Murdoch also admitted that he’d been involved in the editorial decision of the New York City-based newspaper The New York Post, a News Corp subsidiary, to endorse presidential candidate Barack… Continue Reading