Tag archive: partnership

The partnership between Sony and Ericsson has always been a precarious one for consumers. While almost everyone knows the name Sony, few outside the tech industry recognize the Ericsson brand these days. With sales down and its foothold in the U.S. market almost nonexistent, Sony may finally be planning to exit the partnership that helped it establish a foothold in the mobile world 10 years ago. The WSJ reports that Sony has almost finalized a… Read More

General Motors is teaming up with LG to develop electric cars that go beyond the capabilities of the Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid gas and electric vehicle. LG Chem, a subsidiary of LG, supplies the lithium ion batteries that power the Volt and other GM electric prototypes. The new deal will go beyond just batteries. According to the joint announcement yesterday, LG will aid with key components related to vehicle structure, architecture, other… Read More

Google is planning to buy Motorola for $12.5 billion and not everybody is happy about it. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, who signed a major partnership deal with Microsoft earlier this year, has spoken out against the Google acquisition. His fears are exactly the same fears Windows Phone partners would have had when Nokia and Microsoft entered into their multi-billion dollar arrangement, which gives Nokia certain abilities and access that other… Read More

New York based Foursquare Labs is set to announce a large partnership with American Express come Thursday. The social networking service will be offering users special deals at specific locations when they use Foursquare and an American Express card. Foursquare is the service that uses your mobile device to blab your location to friends, commonly known as “checking-in”. Though Facebook and Google have moved into this sphere, the start-up is… Read More

Did a little birdie tell you that Microsoft purchased Nokia's phone division for $19 billion? Well somebody told the stock market, because shares of Nokia rose in response to these rumors, which have been circulating the net for a week or two now. While it probably likes the positive attention, Nokia has responded definitively to the rumor. “These rumors are 100 percent baseless,” Nokia spokesman Doug Dawson told Reuters. While… Read More

Daily deals giant Groupon is purportedly in talks to partner with location sharing service Foursquare, reports All Things Digital. If approved, the partnership would likely result in more precisely targeted deal suggestions, based upon where users of check in. The move would help Groupon expand away from email lists as their primary way of communicating deals with users. Yes, Groupon does have its own app for iOS, Android and BlackBerry, and… Read More

Nokia and Microsoft have made their mobile marriage official, announcing today that the “definitive” agreement between the two companies has been signed. The partnership, first announced in February, establishes Microsoft's Windows Phone mobile operating system as the primary OS for Nokia's smartphone handsets. The terms of the agreement include the establishment of a “new global mobile ecosystem,” the… Read More

Today Nokia CEO Stephen Elop held two separate press briefings detailing the Finnish phone maker's new strategic alliance with Microsoft. In the first briefing (full details here), which we have video for below, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer joined Elop on stage to announce the new deal. Later, Elop came back out, joined by his CFO, to further explain Nokia's strategy, outline restructuring efforts, answer questions, and share… Read More

It ain't exclusive, but Nokia has chosen to hitch its pack to Microsoft for the long smartphone race ahead, confirming rampant rumors of a partnership. In the first of two press conferences in London today, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced and explained Nokia's decision to heavily partner with Microsoft to deliver a joint Nokia and Windows Phone 7 experience that he hopes will help both companies rise to the challenge and battle… Read More

Nokia has a big press event in London tomorrow, but it seems to have procrastinated all the hard work until the last few weeks. A few days ago, we learned of a Jan. 27th leaked memo by new Nokia CEO Stephen Elop telling Nokia employees that the company is “standing on a burning platform” and is years behind its competitors in a myriad of ways. Elop also hinted that the company may adopt a third party platform like Android or Windows… Read More

Hulu and Viacom announced this week a broad partnership that has returned “The Daily Show” and “Colbert Report” to Hulu.com. In addition, many other shows from Viacom-owned networks, including Comedy Central, MTV, BET, VH1, Spike TV, and TV Land, will be available to Hulu Plus pay subscribers. Classy programs like “Jersey Shore,” “Teen Mom 2″ and the ever-hilarious “Tosh.0″ can be… Read More

Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz met with Microsoft head Steve Ballmer last week, according to a report in All Things Digital. However, this time the talk wasn’t of acquisition, but partnership. Negotiations had supposedly begun several weeks ago. Citing “a variety of sources” the report says the talk were “preliminary and wide ranging,” looking at a partnership in search and advertising. Bartz has already… Read More

Online auction juggernaut eBay has announced (PDF) it is repositioning itself in the Chinese market, rolling its operations into a minority stake with a new partnership with Tom Online, an Internet and wireless company controlled by Hong Kong entrepreneur Li Ka-shing. The move marks a major repositioning for the company, which has previously heavily invested in creating a Chinese version of its auction business, only to see its grand hopes… Read More

“A new partnership of opposites may be in the offing, one that will allow you to download pay-for and free songs from the Internet. The partnership called Mashboxxx, first reported in Friday's Los Angeles Times, will happen between Sony BMG Music Entertainment and online peer-to-peer software distributor Grokster. This is quite an historical venture really, being the first earnest public partnership between a major recording… Read More

The company struck a partnership with Yodlee, a technology company that helps aggregate bills from vendors as diverse as Verizon to American Express, to provide the guts of the service. But what it hopes will lure subscribers are the safety features built into its mailbox, where reminders and links to bills will be sent. Read the full story at CNET News.com.