With Motorola planning to separate its mobile business from other operations, consumer electronics major Videocon has said that it had bid to acquire Motorola’s mobile handset business.
Videocon (more) group chairman, Venugopal Dhoot, in an interview with CNBC-TV18 said that they are in the race for Motorola’s handsets as they have a lot of [...]

Anil Ambani group company Reliance Communications is understood to have acquired an African company (Anupam Global Soft) for close to 500 million dollars (over Rs 2,000 crore), through which it plans to offer telecom access services in Uganda. This is the third global acquisition for the company after FLAG in 2003 and Yipes in 2007, [...]

Bharti Telesoft is close to acquiring the Bangalore headquartered Jataayu Software, a provider of technology solutions for the mobile handset and value added services (VAS,), for an estimated $20 million.
Sources said Bharti Telesoft, the VAS arm of mobile telecom player Bharti Enterprises, has already entered into an initial agreement with Jataayu and an announcement [...]

Google Inc is considering bidding alone on coveted airwaves to launch a US wireless network, as a deadline nears to declare bidding plans, sources familiar with the situation said.
One source underscored that Google had made no decision as of Friday on whether it would bid with partners or on its own in the auction of [...]

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services arm of Wipro Ltd. of Bengaluru, is to acquire the radio access-related R&D activities of Nokia Siemens Networks in Berlin, Germany. The terms were not disclosed.
According to the agreement, all radio-access R&D-related activities that are now being done in Berlin by Nokia [...]

Google’s interest in social networking sites is known. It acquired Orkut two years ago and later acquired YouTube. Perhaps the number of people that visit these sites was an attraction. Now aiming to capture the mobile audience and in its endeavour to provide more services through mobile devices, Google acquired mobile social network, ‘Zingku‘.
Some view [...]

MTNL is dialing abroad and its calling India’s neighbour Sri Lanka. It has submitted its final bid for Suntel, a telco providing fixed wireless service in Sri Lanka.
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MTNL has been in the race to buy Suntel for quite some time, however, it will have to wait for another two weeks before knowing [...]

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Nokia said it has acquired Boston-based mobile advertising start-up Enpocket, in a move that could put pressure on wireless carriers. Financial terms were not made known.

Enpocket shows advertisements on cell phones in various formats such as banner ads, video clips and text messages. It works very closely with Sprint Nextel [...]

Nokia and Twango today announced that Nokia has acquired substantially all assets of Twango. Twango provides a comprehensive media sharing solution for organizing and sharing photos, videos and other personal media. By acquiring Twango, Nokia will be able to offer people an easy way to share multimedia content through their desktop and mobile devices. In [...]