Get ready for femtocells: Ubiquisys raises $11 M
If you’ve used an iPhone, you’ll know how frustratingly spotty its wireless coverage can be.
Fact is, wireless carriers such as AT&T (which serves the iPhone) are desperately searching for ways to unload the huge amount of traffic that are hitting their networks from iPhone and other smartphone owners. These users are slurping up large amounts of bandwidth to do things like browse the Internet and watch videos.
Ubiquisys is getting ready to attack cell phone dead… Continue Reading
Wireless startup Fon raises $9.5M
Fon, a Spanish startup hoping to build “the world’s largest wireless community”, has raised $9.5 million in a third round of funding, according to TechCrunch.
Coral Capital Management led the round, with participation from British Telecom, Google, Allen & Co., founder Martin Varsavsky’s Jazzya and Joi Ito’s Digital Garage. Varsavsky says he’ll use the new funding to launch Fon in Russia, and to release a new version of the company’s Fonera router.
We covered the company last… Continue Reading
Social router company, FON, raises $13M amid new competition
(Updated, corrected investor information)
FON, the Madrid, Spain company that offers routers to people that FON members can share if they want, has raised a second round of funding.
It has received $13M from existing investors Index Ventures and Google, and from four undisclosed non-US investors (the company says names will be announced at a later date). Its total funding is now $35 million, and comes a time when a raft of competitors have entered the… Continue Reading
Makani raises $10M from Google for alternative energy
Makani Power, an Emeryville alternative energy effort from Squid Labs, has raised $10 million in Series A funding from Google, according to a regulatory filing.
Here is the Squid Labs blog, which hasn’t been updated much lately. The company hasn’t had much press lately, either. Here are its projects.