Posts tagged Million Subscribers
Yes, we’re acquiring Internet phone company Jajah
Dec 23rd
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O2, the mobile division of Spanish telecommunication company Telefónica, confirmed today that it’s acquiring Israel-based Internet phone company Jajah for 145 million euros (that’s $207 million).
This seems to be  part o growing interest in VoIP technology on the part of the big telecom and tech companies. In November, Israeli financial news site TheMarker reported that [...]
02 is buying Israel’s Jajah for $200M — but we hear it’s not done (via postie)
Dec 21st
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The Internet telephone company Jajah, one of a host of companies that allows users to make international phone cheaply calls over the Internet, will be acquired for about $200 million by the large Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica’s mobile division, 02, this week, according to a report in the Israeli financial news site TheMarker [...]
How soon till mobile TV really gets going?
Dec 15th
Mobile TV has analysts excited. ABI Research estimates that mobile TV will have 43 million subscribers by 2013, and research firm TeleAnalytics estimates 50 million mobile TV users in North America by the same year. But so far mobile TV has not nearly lived up to the hype. Qualcomm’s FLO TV, the technology used behind [...]
Microsoft’s Xbox Live chief on banning modders and browsing Facebook photos on TV
Nov 19th
Microsoft launched Xbox Live as an online gaming service in 2002 amid great skepticism. It didn’t really take off until Halo 2 launched in 2004, but now the service is huge. There are more than 20 million active Xbox Live subscribers (both free users and those who pay $50 a year for multiplayer gaming). That [...]
Qualcomm’s FLO TV makes a bid to become the mobile TV king
Nov 17th
Bill Stone, president of Qualcomm’s FLO TV division, is making a huge bet that users won’t mind paying for mobile TV subscriptions to view shows on their tiny screens.
Speaking at the Streaming Media West show in San Jose, Calif. today, Stone said Qualcomm has collectively invested more than a billion dollars in lining up the [...]
