Ina Fried in Mobile on July 11, 2013 at 6:00 am PT
The Niklas Zennstrom-backed upstart is bulking up its coffers ahead of its initial phone launch later this summer.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 7, 2013 at 6:00 am PT
It will use the added $4 million to continue to come up with new ways to turn the mobile broadband market on its head, CEO Stephen Stokols tells
AllThingsD.
Liz Gannes in Mobile on January 26, 2013 at 6:00 am PT
A mobile broadband rental company called RovAir is trying to apply the “sharing economy” to its business.
Ina Fried in Mobile on September 30, 2012 at 11:11 pm PT
The carrier start-up is ready with a beta of its service, which gives customers 500MB of data free each month for life.
Ina Fried in Mobile on July 31, 2012 at 6:00 am PT
After a strong response to its iPhone add-on, the Niklas Zennstrom-backed start-up is adding a $99 sleeve that gives wireless data capabilities to a third-generation or fourth-generation iPod.
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 10, 2012 at 9:16 am PT
Niklas Zennstrom aims to shake up the data service market, starting with a $99 device that adds free 4G data capability to the iPhone.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 22, 2012 at 5:00 am PT
With FreedomPop, Niklas Zennstrom is clearly looking to shake things up.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 18, 2012 at 4:31 am PT
Stockholm-based Wrapp, which was founded by former executives from Spotify, Groupon and other companies, has just received a $5 million gift from Reid Hoffman of Greylock Partners.
Peter Kafka in News on May 10, 2011 at 2:11 pm PT
Microsoft already owns a streaming music service (remember Zune?). Now it’s buying a company with ties to another one. That’s one music service too many.
Kara Swisher in News on May 10, 2011 at 12:28 am PT
When a group of powerful investors, including Silver Lake Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, waded into the mess at Skype less than two years ago with a $1.9 billion cash investment for a big chunk of the company, it was–how can BoomTown put this delicately–a hot mess.
Now–with Microsoft poised to pay over $8 billion for the Internet telephony and voice communications company–it is a lucrative one.
