Vindigo and Zingy were both acquired by the Japanese mobile content company For-Side.com last year. For-Side.com representatives have talked for months about the possibility of rolling up U.S. operations under the Zingy brand, and the consolidation of Vindigo appears to be the first step. It is unclear of additional For-Side companies such as 411-SONG, Waymobile [...]

News began to circulate last week about a preliminary meeting between Skype and BSkyB, a News Corp satellite unit, to discuss an acquisition by News Corp. News Corp, which includes holdings such as the Fox media outlets, is seeking to expand itself into the online world, but the estimated $3+ billion price tag for the [...]

Google has acquired Android Inc. Little concrete information is known about Android except that the company is a 22-month-old startup based in Palo Alto, which has been working on applications related to mobile devices and cell phones. Android co-founder Andy Rubin has a former background with mobile device maker Danger Inc. Two months before the [...]

A research note fro Safa Raschtchy, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, suggests that Yahoo! Will release a competitor to Skype using peer-to-peer technologies to offer VoIP within the next few weeks. Yahoo! Has offered voice communications through its messaging service for quite sometime, but the recent acquisition of Dialpad may have been provided the company [...]

Sprint has completed its takeover of Nextel to create a unified company with 40 million customers, making it the U.S.’s third largest wireless provider. The combined company will go by Sprint Nextel Corporation and will remain based in Overland Park, Kansas (Sprint’s campus). What may be next for the Sprint Nextel? The company owns 2.5 [...]

Tapwave has announced that it is no longer selling or supporting the Palm-OS based Zodiac. Official company announcement The argument can be made that the Zodiac simply tried to do to many things (similar to the claims around the N-Gage). However, Tapwave simply took too long to roll out this device and it simply could [...]

London’s Sunday Telegraph and other sources recently reported that Electronic Arts was preparing a takeover bid of U.K.-based mobile games publisher Superscape. EA, who has made no bones about their desire to make a major splash in the mobile industry, was said to have been eyeing the company for some time. Interest was renewed after [...]