BROWSING: Startups

SK Telecom invested a total of $7.2 billion in U.S. startups Allganize and Imprimed Korean carrier SK Telecom has invested a total of KRW 9.4 billion ($7.2 billion) in artificial intelligence (AI) startups Allganize and Imprimed, local newspaper The Korea Economic Daily reported. As part of...

Seven startups were selected to participate in the 5G hub, and worked alongside network experts from Verizon to create new 5G use cases Verizon and Canadian incubator Centech announced the results from the first cohort of startups and scaleups in a 5G development hub in...

5G OI Lab said it is also welcoming 16 multi-stage startups to join the Lab’s fall program The 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) announced that SK Telecom, GAF and Deloitte have joined the group as new partners. In a release, 5G OI Lab said...

Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) has said it will invest a further $100 million in 5G, AI, and IoT startups via its Singtel Innov8 corporate venture arm. The new funds will take its total capital commitment to $350 million. New investments will be focused on early-...

Nokia said its radios are being used in 5G OI Lab’s field labs to test a variety of applications and use cases for rural farms Nokia announced that it has joined the 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) as a corporate sponsor. In a release,...

  US Ignite has launched a new smart city startup accelerator program, designed to guide developers through the process of launching a cloud-based business or service oriented to the smart city segment. Through financial support from Amazon Web Services (AWS), program participants will gain access to...

  Qualcomm said investment will be mainly oriented to startups focusing on autonomous cars, robotics and machine learning   Qualcomm has announced the launch of a new Qualcomm Ventures AI Fund to invest up to $100 million in startups focusing on artificial intelligence. Qualcomm said that the fund...

  The new facilities will be located in Washington DC, Palo Alto, Waltham and Los Angeles   Verizon will open four new 5G Labs this year, with the aim of accelerating the development of 5G use cases. The carrier said that the new 5G Labs – to be...

IoT boosts WLAN market for enterprise-class outdoor products. The wireless local area network (WLAN) is far from dead. On the contrary, the internet of things (IoT), emerging markets and startups will grow the enterprise-class and outdoor WLAN product market to over 35% greater than 2017...

Five-year old accelerator The Fabric focusing on cloud, IoT, 5G continues to build. Two advisors are joining The Fabric, the five-year old Mountain View, Calif.-based startup fund and “co-creation foundry." The new advisors are Pankaj Patel, former EVP and CDO with Cisco, and Alan Boehme,...

Fabless semiconductor startups are making interesting 5G silicon by converting big ideas into practice 5G is a complex problem: how to create 100x faster networks that can handle 1000x more traffic with low latency using fewer, and sometimes more problematic, resources. Spectrum is a finite...

CableLabs’ accelerator UpRamp helps entrepreneurs solve sticky problems and get insider access to the industry. Two and a half years ago, Scott Brown designed a unique startup accelerator program for CableLabs that aimed to guarantee that startups would get results: give startups a chance to...

Everybody's situation is different, and goals for MWC vary widely. This is my rough suggestions for people like me, who are senior executives attending MWC in a free-form individual manner. Obviously, for some execs, their conference plan is fully arranged for them. This is...

Telecom Council Startup Review on 5G Member of the Telecom Council including Derek Kerton, Founder of Telecom Council; Jaime Fink, Co-founder and CTO, Mimosa; Thomas Lee, Vice President, Innophase, Farooq Khan, CEO, PHAZR, Inc and Brian Baird, Co-founder & CIO, Expeto take the stage at the Enterprise IoT Summit...

Digital transformation is a trending buzzword in the information technology industry. While somewhat nebulous, it speaks to the need for generally risk-adverse, slow-moving enterprises to embrace things like the app economy, cloudification and software-based virtualization of business process. Factor in the threat from highly focused startups...

Samsung CEO describes vision of 'human-centered' IoT Samsung Vice Chairman and CEO Oh-Hyun Kwon today announced the Korean technology giant will invest $1.2 billion over the next four years in U.S-based "internet of things"-related research, development and investments. During an event in Washington, D.C., Kwon laid...

Samsung CEO describes vision of 'human-centered' internet of things Samsung Vice Chairman and CEO Oh-Hyun Kwon today announced the Korean technology giant will invest $1.2 billion over the next four years in U.S-based internet of things-related research, development and investments. During an event in Washington D.C.,...

Ovum research highlights IoT growth The Internet of Things, or IoT, is and has been making major waves in both consumer and industrial applications, and the IoT is only expected to grow as new connections ranging from health wearables to asset tracking sensors are deployed. To...

Ovum research highlights IoT growth The Internet of Things, or IoT, is and has been making major waves in both consumer and industrial applications, and the IoT is only expected to grow as new connections ranging from health wearables to asset tracking sensors are deployed. To...

The "Internet of Things" is such a broad-reaching topic; it’s really what you make of it – cars, things, people, sensors, animals, tractors, highways, etc. With so much room to innovate and limited only by the imagination of the tech industry; how does one actually begin to determine...

Data pools are growing every day and, with that growth, companies are facing increased pressure to jump in head-first. Many startups are using data to gain an edge on their more established competitors, and executives are taking notice, with 53% reporting seeing increased competition from...

Slush 2014 took place this week in Helsinki, Finland. Started in 2008 with only around 150 attendees, this year’s attendee count clocked in at just over 14,000 showing amazing growth. The atmosphere was a mix of nightclub and conference, with participants from a range...

Stockholm’s thriving technology ecosystem, anchored by giants like Ericsson but also a huge draw for startups, is beginning to draw comparisons to the U.S. hub of innovation in Silicon Valley. RCR Wireless News recently sat down with three tech leaders to compare and contrast the...

If you grew up on the West Coast, you may or may not have heard the term "hurricane party" before – it's a multi-day party held during a hurricane, where guests bring sleeping bags, radios, food and other hurricane supplies. Of course in the chaos...