Deals

Two top social apps are apparently joining forces, with news Groupon and Foursquare are teaming up with a daily deal partnership. Location based social app Foursquare has long been trying to make some sort of “deal” breaker into the industry, …

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said his firm would likely go public over the next year or so but had not yet started the process, as it continues to grow its mobile following. “We haven’t started the process, we haven’t chosen …

Telefonica | April 18, 2011 | Press Release (Translated) Telefónica today announced the signing of an agreement with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment that will add Fox’s movie catalogue into Movistar’s videoclub Imagenio. Customers of Telefónica TV services each month …

Those who sift through emails from Groupon, LivingSocial, Entertainment.com, Crowdsavings, Restaurant.com and others, now have a new local option to view the best deals in their cities from Austin-based coupon provider Offers.com. The site now offers “local city deals” to …

Bloomberg | March 2, 2011 | Brian Womack, Serena Saitto and Mariko Yasu Yahoo! Inc. is in talks to dispose of its 35 percent stake in its Japanese joint venture with Softbank Corp., according to two people briefed on the matter. The …

Wall Street Journal | February 8, 2011 | Matt Jarzemsky International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.SE, SSNHY) have agreed to license their respective patent portfolios to each other. The companies said the sharing of their intellectual …

HTC Corp. announced today that it will be investing in Saffron Digital, a London-based firm that operates a mobile multimedia delivery platform. The company, which has proprietary technologies to support media distribution on multiple devices, already works with many of …

The Nation | February 3, 2011 | Usanee Mongkolporn The National Telecommunications Commission will examine details of the CAT Telecom-True Corp-Hutchison group deals to decide which aspects of the contracts it should involve itself in. NTC member Natee Sukonrat yesterday …

Wall Street Journal | January 31, 2011 | Taos Turner BUENOS AIRES—The presidents of Argentina and Brazil signed a broad range of agreements Monday to cooperate on everything from nuclear power development to broadband expansion and regional pharmaceutical standards. In …

Telefonica | January 23, 2011 | Press Release TELEFO?NICA AND CHINA UNICOM STRENGTHEN THEIR STRATEGIC ALLIANCE AND AGREE A NEW MUTUAL INVESTMENT • Telefo?nica and China Unicom  deepen their Strategic Alliance • Telefo?nica will increase its interest in China Unicom’s …

Huawei | January 11, 2011 | Press Release [Oslo, Norway, 11 January, 2011] Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, has been selected by TeliaSonera to expand and upgrade its GSM/HSPA+/LTE network throughout …

Taipei Times | January 11, 2011 | Jason Tan NEW OPPORTUNITIES: Compal said that its revenues jumped 34 percent to NT$851.9 billion last year from NT$636.81 billion in 2009, after it shipped 48 million portable PCs Quanta Computer Inc (廣達電腦), …

Livemocha | January 7, 2011 | Press Release Partnership Offers Telefonica Customers Significantly Discounted Access to Livemocha’s Award-Winning English Language Learning Course Active English, and Access to the World’s Largest Online Language Learning Community SEATTLE, WA–(Marketwire – January 7, 2011) …

iBasis | January 10, 2011 | Press Release IP-Interconnect Enables Panama’s Second-Largest Carrier to Bring High Quality, Low Cost International Calling to Customers BURLINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–iBasis, a KPN company, today announced that Panama’s second-largest telecommunications carrier, Telefónica Moviles Panama, S.A. …

Intrinsyc | January 5, 2011 | Press Release Collaboration to Bring Navigation and Location Based Services to Latin America Markets VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA and SAO PAULO, BRAZIL–(Marketwire – Jan. 5, 2011) – Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. (TSX:ICS) and Movix, Empresa …

Gilat Satellite Networks | January 5, 2011 | Press Release Petah Tikva, Israel, 5 January, 2011 – Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT), a worldwide leader in satellite networking technology, solutions and services, today announced that the Ministry of Information …

DigiTimes | January 4, 2011 | Siu Han and Yvonne Yu Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has landed OEM orders of smartphones and tablets for US-based LCD TV vendor Vizio. Market sources indicated that Vizio aims to challenge leading …

TeleGeography | December 30, 2010 | Thailand Thai cellco True Move, part of domestic integrated telecoms operator True Corp, has announced in a statement to the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) that it will buy the Bangkok-based CDMA2000 mobile operations …

Wall Street Journal | December 30, 2010 | Rogerio Jelmayer SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)–Shares of Universo Online SA (UOLL4.BR), or UOL, Brazil’s largest Internet provider by revenue, were up during Thursday’s morning session on two deals concerning the company. As …

Good Morning Colombia | December 26th, 2010 The board of the mobile phone giant has approved the purchase of 93.26 percent ofof the Mexican company with presence in the country . This confirms the rumor that the communications market analysts …