BROWSING: Silicon Valley

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Speaking at the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in San Jose, CA, Wednesday, Brian Wilcove a general partner at VC firm Sofinnova Ventures said a big change was happening in the world of telecoms........

Hakan Eriksson, Ericsson CTO and head of the firm’s Silicon Valley division told press at the company’s Business Innovation Forum that the valley was a perfect home away from home because “basically everybody is here.”......

NEW YORK CITY — This city is teaming with startups. Like any good metropolis with considerable talents and clout across entertainment, media, technology, fashion and so much more, the costs of founding a company in New York are often outweighed by the potential return...

“We have reached the deployment phase,” declared Ericsson’s Chief Strategist, SVP Douglas Gilstrap, on Tuesday at the firm’s Innovation Forum in Silicon Valley.Speaking at the Stanford University Faculty Club, Gilstrap said we had entered a “very important inflection point,” where a new mindset was...

Silicon Valley is seeing a tech induced job recovery of late, with the California Employment Development Department noting that every major industry except construction added jobs in March and April 2011. Social media firms such as Facebook, deal sites like Groupon, Internet giants like Google...

Silicon Valley is seeing a tech induced job recovery of late, with the California Employment Development Department noting that every major industry except construction added jobs in March and April 2011.Social media firms such as Facebook, deal sites like Groupon.....

JiWire Inc. has raised $20 million in new funding, bringing its total capital raised to date at $45 million. The San Francisco-based company provides a platform to deliver advertising across mobile applications and public Wi-Fi. It now claims to reach 40...

JiWire Inc. has raised $20 million in new funding, bringing its total capital raised to date at $45 million. The San Francisco-based company provides a platform to deliver advertising across mobile applications and public Wi-Fi. It now claims to reach 40 million users every...

There was a lot of talk at the Texas Labs Venture Expo today about whether Austin should strive to be the next Silicon Valley, as Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently suggested. In late April, Gov. Perry told an audience of business, technology and higher-education leaders,...

Freescale Semiconductor used the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose this week to announce its Make It Challenge design contest, which asks engineers to build a robot or system design based on the firm’s latest sensor development kit. In other words, a walking robot...

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.2010 was a good year for start-ups seeking money. More than $1.2 billion (13% higher...

The death of mobile “check-in” services is often hotly debated in industry circles; but while Facebook Places may have flopped and services like Foursquare/Gowalla et all look to expand their business models into something monetizable, other firms are already creating LBS value and making...

Walmart may be trying to get into your pocket – through social media that is – after purchasing silicon valley based Kosmix for an undisclosed sum, according to Reuters.......

AUSTIN, Texas-Computer kingpin Dell Inc. (DELL) completed a deal to open a new research and development center in Silicon Valley and plans to hire 700 people by the end of 2011 and a total of 1,500 workers through the next ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is marking its ten-year anniversary in the United States today by opening a new R&D headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. The 200,000 square-foot facility is said to include multiple state-of-the-art research labs and...

The Oscar awards were last night, yet another celebration of the most famous and over-rewarded people on the planet. But one undeniably impressive aspect of Hollywood is the creativity, and those Oscar winners who created value where there was nothing before. On the telecom...

Digital security firm McAfee says the number of malicious software attacks rose by 46% last year and that hackers have started zoning in on mobile phones – specifically the popular Android and iOS platforms.

With the end of 2010, I've been reflecting on the past decade and all that has changed. It seems impossible to me that 2000 was over 10 years ago; not in that “Wow where has the time gone?” sense but rather in a...

With the end of 2010, I’ve been reflecting on the past decade and all that has changed.  It seems impossible to me that 2000 was over 10 years ago; not in that “Wow where has the time gone?” sense but rather in a “I...

With the end of 2010, I’ve been reflecting on the past decade and all that has changed.  It seems impossible to me that 2000 was over 10 years ago; not in that “Wow where has the time gone?” sense but rather in a “I...

In a move to provide readers with more authentic news and insights on how mobile broadband is changing the way we live and work at the global and local market levels, RCR Wireless News recently expanded its news coverage to include the Americas, Asia,...

Apple Inc. (AAPL) is looking to hire some new employees for its iOS development team based in Silicon Valley. Four identical job listings that were picked up by AppleInsider suggest that Apple could be working on its own personal navigation tools to implement in...

Executives at Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) were never eager to offer up subscriber count numbers for FLO TV. Until now, sort of.At an event in Silicon Valley earlier this week, CEO Paul Jacobs said the company only managed to sign up about 1 million customers...

It's been exactly two months since Apple Inc. acquiesced and approved a third-party Google Voice app for the iPhone, but now there's finally an official offering from Google Inc. The new Google Voice app, which made its debut on the App Store yesterday, is simpler...