Amobee raises $22M strategic round from Cisco, Motorola and others for mobile advertising

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Amobee, a company that enables mobile carriers to insert advertising into nearly any form of mobile content, has raised a $22 million strategic round from Cisco, Motorola, Vodafone and a number of returning investors that include Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital.

Unlike mobile advertising advertising companies… Continue Reading

Sequans raises $28M for WiMAX chips

Sequans is a manufacturer of all kinds of chips for the WiMAX industry, from various base stations and terminals to personal chips for computers or mobile devices.

The company is based in Paris but also has offices in Cupertino. It has partnerships with Motorola and Alcatel-Lucent,… Continue Reading

Siimpel raises $21.5M for imaging technology for cellphones

Siimpel Corp., an Arcadia, Calif., maker of imaging technology for cellphone cameras, has raised $21.5 million in a fourth round of funding.

SunAmerica Ventures led the round. Other investors include Motorola, Qualcomm and Micron Technology and existing backers Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Scale Venture Partners, Global Catalyst… Continue Reading

GoTV Networks raises $12M for TV over mobile phones

GoTV Networks, a Sherman Oaks, Calif. company that delivers TV over the mobile phone, has raised $12 million in a second round of financing from Motorola and Qualcomm.

GoTV failed in its original incarnation, and restarted in late 2004 to focus on mobile TV, with $15… Continue Reading

DartDEVICES, the DEMO conundrum company, has $2.8M from Motorola

DartDEVICES, the DEMO conundrum company, has $2.8M from Motorola

DARTdevices, of Mountain View, is a start-up that launched at DEMO today, that until this evening remained unintelligible to us.

It proclaims a technology that lets multiple devices interact with an application over a shared connection. Gigaom’s Katie Fehrenbacher sat down with the company, but… Continue Reading

Airplay gets $14M to merge TV football and mobile games

AirPlay, a San Francisco start-up that is taking live broadcasts of professional football games, and allowing cellphone users to see the broadcasts on their phone and play interactive games at the same time, said it has raised $14 million.

The investment is a second round from… Continue Reading

Ruckus Wireless has raised $16M for TV WiFi

Ruckus Wireless, a Sunnyvale start-up that develops WiFi technology designed to carry Internet TV signals through large homes, including around and through walls and other barriers, has raised $16 million in a fourth round of funding.

The round was led by Motorola Ventures and T-Online, and… Continue Reading

Home wifi co. Ruckus Wireless raises at least $15M

Ruckus Wireless, a Sunnyvale start-up that is developing hardware that helps extend WiFi in large homes and through walls to allow better transmission of digital television has raised at least $15 million more from a group of investors, including Motorola.

We’ll be able to report more… Continue Reading