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Google to Invest in a New Company Named Clearwire

The American wireless communication company Sprint has announced today, through a press release, that it will join forces with Clearwire for a new US company. The new firm is going to be named Cleawire and is meant to combine Sprint and Clearwire 4G Assets in order to form a new wireless communications company.WiMAX ...

7 May 2008
09:38 GMT

Motorola Joins Other Companies and Invests in VirtualLogix

Motorola recently announced it has made an "equity investment", through Motorola Ventures, in the Californian company VirtualLogix. This doesn't mean that Moto bought VirtualLogix, but only that Motorola is now among the owners of VirtualLogix, together with other prestigious companies like Cisco Systems, Intel...

22 April 2008
06:39 GMT

Motorola Invests in the Australian Company Tilefile

Motorola just announced, through its strategic venture capital arm, Motorola Ventures, that it has made an equity investment in the Australian venture backed company Tilefile Limited, which owns an innovative social media platform that allows users and communities to connect via a "content-neutral" media format. No f...

16 November 2007
06:00 GMT

Motorola Closes Deal with Siimpel

Motorola announced today that it made an equity investment in Siimpel Corporation, through its strategic venture capital arm, Motorola Ventures. Siimpel is a venture backed firm, leading producer of silicon MicroElectroMechanical System (MEMS) based solutions for mobile imaging applications. No financial terms regard...

24 October 2007
09:02 GMT

The Piracy-Allowed Land Gets Russian Money

If you have never heard of it, Sealand is a World War 2 sea fort which now represents the territory of Prince Michael of Sealand. But what's more important is not the territory itself but the purpose of the country which serves as the host for numerous servers flagged as illegal in several parts of the world. To...

10 September 2007
09:07 GMT

Google's Secret Plans Revealed

China has been described as an anti-Google land since most of the company's attempts to evolve in this market were quickly rejected by the country. However, Google knows that China is one of the largest IT markets and tries different techniques, from new offices to Chinese versions of its products, to expand int...

17 August 2007
06:18 GMT

Hynix Aims for The Top

Hynix Semiconductor is a Korean chip manufacturer with some big plans for the near future. It only needs some time to reap the rewards of careful and aggressive investments in next generation products. The Hynix president Kim Jong-Kap recently said that "several companies have expressed interest in buying a 36 percen...

25 July 2007
10:11 GMT

Google Invests in 3G Mobile Company

Ubiquisys proudly announced that it is one of the companies that received Google's support to become more powerful and fight for the leader position of the market. The UK company sustained Google joined other several investors which brought funds to the firm in order to reach its goals. The entire amount of mone...

23 July 2007
10:23 GMT

Intel's Huge Investment in VMware

VMware, a subsidiary of EMC, announced on July 9, 2007 that Intel Corporation, through its investment arm, Intel Capital, agreed to invest heavily into Vmware. As most of Vmware's virtualization platforms run on Intel architecture and at the same time almost all virtualization solutions from Vmware emulate Intel...

10 July 2007
03:24 GMT

More Money into The IT Equipment Purchases

According to IDC's U.S. IT Spending forecast, more and more service providers and corporates spend a significant part of their IT budget on networking equipment. The report said that on the service-provider side spending is aimed at implementing new services based on "IPTV, fiber-based broadband access, next-gen...

9 July 2007
12:23 GMT

Google Ventures: Free Funds for New Talents

Google rolled out a new program, codenamed Gadget Ventures, that is meant to offer free investments to the gadget developers and help them reach their goals. The campaign is split in two parts, grants and seed investments, the main differences being represented by the amount of money offered by the parent company. Th...

28 June 2007
03:51 GMT

Google's YouTube Investment Already Paid Off

YouTube was acquired in October 2006 for $1.6 billion, one of the biggest investments ever made for an online company. At that time, the analysts sustained the search giant will manage to pay off the investment quickly because the Mountain View-based firm is able to attract an important number of users. Soon after th...

23 April 2007
17:06 GMT

YouTube to Pay Off the Investment. Or Not?

Although I believe you know the story, I'll tell it one more time. Google acquired YouTube, the online video sharing service in October 2006 for $1.65 billion, one of the biggest investments ever made for an Internet company according to analysts. Everybody expected to see YouTube growing up conquering the Inter...

22 March 2007
11:50 GMT

YouTube to Boost Profit Soon, Google Thinks

YouTube is by far the most popular website on the Internet but, since the Google acquisition, it is not such an important source of profit as the company expected in October 2006. At that time, Google paid $1.6 billion for YouTube, planning to pay off the money by attracting both users and publishers to the service. ...

7 March 2007
10:37 GMT




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