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Clearwire to Raise $1.1 Billion, Will Fund Network and Cover Debts
Founded by Craig McCaw, Clearwire has managed to raise $1.1 Billion by issuing debt that it will be using to fund its network build out and cover up its debts. The company reported that it is in a pretty bad spot, and will soon run out of cash by the middle of next year. To ...
Google Editions to Launch Soon, Ready to Upend e-Book Market
After a long delay, Google is finally set to launch its much-awaited e-Book retailing venture, Google Editions. This is one of the highly anticipated ventures from Google this year, and is expected to upend the way we sell digital books. Google Editions will be debuted in United States by the end of this year, and ...
Virtual Goods’ Holiday Boom, More to Come in Next Few Years
As reported by VentureBeat in a recent report, virtual goods and prepaid game cards experienced great sales on this Black Friday and Thanksgiving weekend. The overall sales of prepaid game cards were up 48% on Black Friday as compared to last year, and even 60% higher than a week before Black Friday. Virtual goods is ...
AOL Local gets Mike DeLuca as the New Head of Sales
Taking a step ahead to strengthen its position, AOL has appointed Mike DeLuca as the Head of Sales for AOL Local, a former SVP of Sales and Marketing, Yodle. The prime responsibility given to DeLuca is to build and oversee a regional and local sales team and sell Patch, City’s Best, MapQuest, and Wow! Deal ...
Yandex After IPO, Russia on a Global Tear
Following the footsteps of its fellow Russian internet giant Mail.ru, Yandex, Russia’s search engine leader is considering to float its Initial Public Offer during first half of year 2011. The IPO of Mail.ru was a good success and it managed to raise around 1 billion by posing approx 32.3 million shares at $27.7 per share. ...
TiVo’s Revenues Dropped Again, Hopes Mobile Can Return it to Relevance
TiVo just announced its sixth quarterly loss in a row, which is more evidence of bad times for the company. It has reported a net loss of $20.6 million with revenues dropped by 12 per cent to $41.3 million. Tivo’s subscriber base has fallen by 112,000, and the worst part is that it is expecting ...
Intel Launches Programmable Chip, Empowers itself for Embedded Applications
Intel, the world’s largest processor manufacturer has just launched a new programmable chip made by Altera Corp that will come with its low-powered Atom processor for netbooks. The chip, known as the E600C Series, can be customized by the clients to match their requirements. Intel’s processors already make up the CPUs of 80 percent of the ...
Temporary Restraining for FilmOn, Copyright Infringement Issues Affect an Industry
As a result of latest development in their copyright infringement case, FilmOn.com has been issued a temporary restraining order by a judge. The case was filed by Fox, CBS, ABC and NBC, America’s four major Television networks. These TV networks claimed that FilmOn was transmitting their programming over the web without permission and hence violating copyright ...
Svpply Hits the eCommerce World, Raises Funding
With increasing trend of online shopping and e-commerce, we are able to see some new players coming around. The trend of online shopping was set up by giants like Amazon and eBay. Now we have another player in the industry: Svpply. The pitch of this latest e-commerce portal is that while you need to search ...
Netflix Offers Video Streaming-Only, Price Increases on DVD Rentals
As Netflix is maturing its video streaming service, the company is expected to be of worth $2.2. billion by the end of this year. Although it is offering the on-demand video service to make a competitive position in the industry, we now learn about the price increase in its streaming-only DVD rental plans. “We are ...