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On October 16th I attended The Capital Network’s (TCN) and Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange’s (MITX) panel on “Raising Capital For Your Mobile Digital Media Company” at Microsoft Labs’ headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Moderated by Brian Shin, Founder and CEO of Visible Measures, panelists included: David Beisel, VP, Venrock- David’s focuses on digital and mobile [...]

I’m sure that everyone who made the pilgrimage  to CTIA last week is glad they survivied the trek and maybe life can get back to normal now. You get a sense from the blogosphere that the show was ho-hum. For many of us, it’s been like that for a number of years, with many announcements [...]

Here we are, on the heals of the CTIA and once again, I’m wondering if there will be any real game changers in the weeks ahead. Usually, the biggest news breaks a week before the show and then CTIA becomes the breeding ground for speculation about the impact of recent announcements, while the show itself, [...]

According to reports in Fierce Wireless and elsewhere, a strategic competitor to Sprint attempted to acquire Virgin Mobile USA shortly before Sprint announced its $483 million July acquisition of the prepaid provider, based on SEC filings. This behind the scenes bidding war no doubt inflated the final price paid for Virgin Mobile USA. Mergers and [...]