Amdocs scoops up Qpass for a cool $275 million; Toyota keeps the ad-supported mobile content trend alive with its sponsorship of Fox's Prison Break.
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WHO |
WITH |
WHAT |
SCOOP |
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Amdocs |
Qpass |
Amdocs acquires Qpass for $275M. |
Amdocs beat out Lucent for the winning bid as the latter was tied up in its own acquisition deal by Alcatel. The deal is very similar to VeriSign's recent $250M acquisition of m-Qube. |
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Toyota |
Fox |
Toyota to sponsor mobisodes of "Prison Break." |
Toyota will run 10-second commercials developed by Saatchi & Saatchi at the start of the program. |
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SES Americom |
Aloha Networks |
Teaming up for a satellite-based mobile TV service. |
Aloha established a subsidiary called Hiwire to deliver the service using its 700 MHz spectrum holdings. |
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Synaptics |
Samsung |
Synaptics bringing its iPod-like scrolling wheel to new Samsung multimedia phone. |
The handset is only available in Korea. |
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Cisco |
mtvU |
Teaming up for a contest to fund user-generated mobile content. |
Cisco exec: "The ideas that students have come up with are better than things we've funded to the tune of $2 million." |
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Mobile Streams |
Cyoshi |
Mobile Streams acquires Cyoshi for 3M euros. |
The deal includes €2 million in cash and €1 million in Mobile Streams shares. |