Capital Markets: Nokia buys Motally; RIM picks up Cellmania; and more

Nokia said it signed an agreement to purchase Motally Inc., which provides a mobile analytics service that is designed to help developers and publishers optimize development of their mobile applications. “The acquisition underpins Nokia’s drive to deliver in-application and mobile web browsing analytics to Ovi’s growing, global eco-system of developers and publishers, enabling partners to better connect with their customers and optimize and monetize their offering,” said Marco Argenti, vice president of media at Nokia. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Research In Motion acquired California-based Cellmania, a mobile software company that focuses on mobile content, digital rights management and content billing and download. The acquisition could position RIM to compete with the application offerings of other smartphone makers
Total Beauty Media Inc. acquired LimeLife.com, a female lifestyle and celebrity news site includes the company’s online- and mobile-based MySnaps social shopping service. The acquisition extends Total Beauty Media’s reach in the mobile market.
Tyco Electronics said it extended the expiration of its tender offer to purchase the outstanding shares of ADC Telecom for $12.75 cash per share. The new deadline is midnight, Sept. 20.
VSS Monitoring Inc., which provides distributed traffic capture, said it secured its first institutional round of financing totaling $20 million from Battery Ventures.
AT&T Inc. announced early results of its private offer to exchange its 8.750% senior notes and 8.00% senior notes, saying more than half the amount outstanding for each of the notes had been tendered. The company also said it increased the maximum aggregate principal amount of existing notes that it will accept from $2.5 billion to $3.5 billion.
AT&T said it completed the sale of some wireless assets of Centennial Communications to Verizon Wireless. AT&T completed its purchase of Centennial in November 2009 and was required to divest certain assets. The markets the company sold to Verizon include six service areas in Louisiana and Mississippi.