Start-ups

Bubble Motion, a start-up based in Mountain View, California raised $14 million in new funding for its "voice SMS" technology. The company's BubbleTALK provides a "click, talk, and send" short...

Verizon Wireless will begin offering Loopt's social-mapping service on select mobile phones. With Loopt, Verizon Wireless customers can leverage their phones' location-based services capabilities to share location information, status messages...

Solera Networks, a start-up based in Lindon, Utah, raised $5 million in Series B funding for its deep packet capture and stream-to-storage technology. Solera Networks' DS Series is a line...

Aktino, which offers carrier-class long reach broadband over copper solutions, named Lonnie Martin as its new CEO. Martin most recently was CEO of White Rock Networks, an optical equipment company...

LiveWire Mobile, a subsidiary of NMS Communications, has acquired privately-owned Groove Mobile, a leading provider of mobile music solutions based in Bedford, Massachusetts, for $14.5 million. The acquisition will enable...

Motorola Ventures has made a strategic investment in INVIDI Technologies, a start-up focused on addressable advertising solutions for the television industry. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. The...

WiSpry, a start-up based in Irvine, California, closed an additional $7 million of Series B financing for its programmable radio frequency (RF) semiconductor products. This brings the total of the...

WiNetworks, a start-up based in Herzliya, Israel, raised $19M in financing for its development and integration of WiMAX technologies. The company's product line includes an all-outdoor compact base station and...

The T-Mobile Venture Fund has made a strategic investment in Ubiquisys, a supplier of 3G femtocells, joining Google and original investors Accel Partners, Atlas Venture and Advent Venture Partners. Financial...

Sensorlogic, which is developing a new platform targeting machine-to-machine (M2M) market, announced the appointment of Greg Jones as its new vice president of marketing and business development. Previously, Jones served...

Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, NICTA, has spun out its fourth technology company in less than six years of operation, -- Monitoring Division Inc. The...

Proofpoint, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, .closed a $28 million financing round for its unified email security and data loss prevention solutions. Proofpoint offers an email security and DLP...

Arieso, a start-up based in Newbury, UK, secured £5 million in a Series B funding for its software for optimizing the quality of service for mobile cell phone users. By...