Sentences with phrase «acquiring mobile startups»

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Verizon has reportedly been in talks to acquire startup carrier Mobilicity, and there are reports it has made an initial $ 700 - million offer for Wind Mobile, another of Canada's small telecoms.

RIM has also started to acquire more startups, and co-founded the BlackBerry Partners Fund in 2008 to invest in mobile computing companies globally.

The public kickoff of the effort came on Wednesday when T - Mobile announced it was acquiring a startup TV service in Denver called Layer3 TV.

SAN JOSE, Calif. & CHICAGO, Ill. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) announced today that it has agreed to acquire Braintree, the innovative global payment platform powering the next generation of leading online and mobile - first startups, for total consideration of approximately $ 800 million in cash.

• Snapchat has agreed to acquire Vurb, a San Francisco - based mobile search startup, for upwards of $ 185 million (including $ 75 million in retention bonuses and nearly $ 28 million in cash), according to The Information.

Simple Inc., which focused on web and mobile banking and didn't charge for overdrafts or monthly maintenance, was acquired by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA, or BBVA, for $ 117 million in February 2014 after raising $ 18.1 million from investors including Village Ventures, IA Ventures, First Round Capital, 500 Startups, Neu Venture Capital and Shasta Ventures.

Its biggest win may be Mopub, a startup that helped mobile publishers manage their ad inventory and was acquired Twitter in 2013 for $ 350 million.

US - based Smart Software Testing Solutions Inc., an automated product testing startup, has acquired cloud - based smart mobile testing...

Ironpaper builds websites, mobile apps and web apps to help startups acquire customers and build engagement with use.

Chicago - based startup Tap.Me, whose technology platform lets brands advertise within mobile games, has been acquired by MediaMath, a New York advertising technology firm.

March 2010: Yahoo! acquires sports mobile and social gaming startup Citizen Sports.

Earlier this year, SoFi received a mortgage license to operate in New York; additionally, it acquired Zenbanx Holding, a startup fintech that provides online and mobile banking accounts in different currencies and enables customers to transfer money across the globe.

In 2014, Next Games acquired Helsinki GameWorks, Samuli Syvähuoko's most recent successful mobile gaming startup.

Its biggest win may be Mopub, a startup that helped mobile publishers manage their ad inventory and was acquired Twitter in 2013 for $ 350 million.

Still no word yet on the possible merger with rival T - Mobile... Auto parts maker Delphi is buying autonomous car startup NuTonomy for $ 400 million... Overstock.com aims to hold the largest - yet initial coin offering, topping FileCoin's $ 257 million offering in August... Uber is adding a «long pickup fee» as part of an effort to make rides more attractive where drivers have to go a distance before starting the ride; the question is how it will go over with riders... AMD returned to profitability driven by sales of its Ryzen processor, per VentureBeat... Apple acquired New Zealand - based wireless charging firm PowerbyProxi for an undisclosed sum... TechCrunch reports that Honolulu has given final approval to a law that fines pedestrians who are looking at their phones while crossing a street.

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It all started when the manufacturer acquired «Nextbit» - the startup mobile manufacturer behind the popular cloud - based smartphone Nextbit Robin, back in early 2017.

His team covers mobile game developers and app startups to help them acquire users to grow their businesses across Android and iOS platforms.

The company acquired mobile data startup Pryte in June last year to expand its program globally and the new app is considered as the company's new step in its expansion.

In an attempt to spearhead the mobile wallet space, while simultaneously taking on Apple Pay, Samsung acquired LoopPay - a startup that invented a mobile wallet technology called MST (Magnetic Strip Technology).

The company recently acquired Nextbit, the smartphone startup that put an emphasis on unlimited storage by using integrated cloud backup and syncing and, although Nextbit at the time confirmed it would continue to develop in the mobile sphere, it's likely that this will have some influence on the direction that a Razer phone will take.