Though it’s been overshadowed by Yahoo buying Tumblr, Sprint has made some purchases of its own. The company has acquired Handmark and its subsidiary OneLouder Apps, an advertising company and mobile app developer. Sprint said in a press release that the purchase will enhance its existing Pinsight Media+ advertising service with an experienced team, an [...]
Yahoo has had a string of acquisitions lately, but it’s going to be hard to top this one. The company has agreed to acquire the blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. More than just blogs, Tumblr has also become a social network for many users and the acquisition will give Yahoo a larger [...]
Sprint announced on Friday that it has completed a deal to buy a portion of U.S. Cellular’s service in the Midwest. The $480 million deal grants Sprint additional wireless spectrum to increase its network capacity in several cities. Sprint gained 20MHz of PCS spectrum in Midwest markets including Chicago, South Bend, Ind., and Champaign, Ill, [...]
The Galaxy S4 is on track to become Samsung’s fastest-selling smartphone and easily outpace its predecessor’s sales. Co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun, speaking at an industry event in Seoul, South Korea, announced that the phone will hit 10 million sales in the next week. The Galaxy S4 launched on April 26, which means that it will have [...]
New market research from IDC shows that Microsoft’s Windows Phone has taken third place in global smartphone shipments for the first quarter. Windows Phones shipped 7 million units and gained a market share of 3.2%, which is a significant increase from the 3 million smartphones shipped in the first quarter of last year when it [...]
Though it’s been overshadowed by Yahoo buying Tumblr, Sprint has made some purchases of its own. The company has acquired Handmark and its subsidiary OneLouder Apps, an advertising company and mobile app developer. Sprint said in a press release that the purchase will enhance its existing Pinsight Media+ advertising service with an experienced team, an [...]
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The Federal Communications Commission has voted to look into a proposal that would make additional spectrum available for inflight broadband. Currently, only around 4MHz of spectrum is available for the wireless service that works by transmitting signals from towers on the ground to planes in the air. The proposal seeks to add 500MHz of spectrum [...]
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The Galaxy S4 is on track to become Samsung’s fastest-selling smartphone and easily outpace its predecessor’s sales. Co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun, speaking at an industry event in Seoul, South Korea, announced that the phone will hit 10 million sales in the next week. The Galaxy S4 launched on April 26, which means that it will have [...]
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Skype has won a place in the public consciousness as the preeminent VoIP service and the latest news underscores just how popular it is. In a post on its blog, Skype announced that users spend a combined 2 billion minutes on the Microsoft-owned service every day. That’s an incredible figure and one that the company [...]
continue reading Though it’s been overshadowed by Yahoo buying Tumblr, Sprint has made some purchases of its own. The company has acquired Handmark and its subsidiary OneLouder Apps, an advertising company and mobile app developer. Sprint said in a press release that the purchase will enhance its existing Pinsight Media+ advertising service with an experienced team, an [...]
Yahoo has had a string of acquisitions lately, but it’s going to be hard to top this one. The company has agreed to acquire the blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. More than just blogs, Tumblr has also become a social network for many users and the acquisition will give Yahoo a larger [...]
Sprint announced on Friday that it has completed a deal to buy a portion of U.S. Cellular’s service in the Midwest. The $480 million deal grants Sprint additional wireless spectrum to increase its network capacity in several cities. Sprint gained 20MHz of PCS spectrum in Midwest markets including Chicago, South Bend, Ind., and Champaign, Ill, [...]
The Galaxy S4 is on track to become Samsung’s fastest-selling smartphone and easily outpace its predecessor’s sales. Co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun, speaking at an industry event in Seoul, South Korea, announced that the phone will hit 10 million sales in the next week. The Galaxy S4 launched on April 26, which means that it will have [...]
New market research from IDC shows that Microsoft’s Windows Phone has taken third place in global smartphone shipments for the first quarter. Windows Phones shipped 7 million units and gained a market share of 3.2%, which is a significant increase from the 3 million smartphones shipped in the first quarter of last year when it [...]
Apple’s App Store has passed the 50 billion downloads milestone. Though it was launched in 2008, the majority of those downloads have occurred in just the last year. Back in January, Apple reported that the store had reached 40 billion downloads, with almost half of them occurring in 2012 alone. As part of a promotion, [...]
A report released by Strategy Analytics shows that Samsung is reaping almost all of the profits associated with the Android smartphone market. In the first quarter of 2013, global Android smartphone profits reached $5.3 billion. Samsung took home an incredible 94.7% share of the pie, equaling $5.1 billion. The only other company to be specifically [...]
Even as BlackBerry fights iOS and Android devices in the hardware market, it’s working with them on the software front. BlackBerry announced that its popular Messenger service will be coming to mobile devices running iOS 6 or Android 4.0 and up as a free app this summer. “It’s time to bring BBM to a greater [...]
BlackBerry has announced the third smartphone to run off its BlackBerry 10 operating system: the Q5. As the name suggests, the Q5 is a scaled down version of the Q10 smartphone and features a similar QWERTY keyboard rather than the touchscreen of the Z10. The new phone will be a cheaper model targeted at a [...]
Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications and Vodafone, has said that it will pay out a dividend of $7 billion to its two owners. A regulatory filing indicates that the dividend will be paid on June 25. Verizon, which holds 55% of Verizon Wireless, will receive around $3.8 billion in cash, while Vodafone, [...]
Sprint Adds to Advertising Service with Purchase of Handmark and OneLouderYahoo Acquires Tumblr for $1.1 BillionSprint Completes U.S. Cellular Deal for Spectrum and CustomersSamsung Galaxy S4 Sales to Reach 10 Million in Under a MonthWindows Phone Takes Third Place from BlackBerry in Smartphone Shipments
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