HTC buys Dashwire to strengthen cloud offerings

Release Date 6 Aug, 2011 in Mobile Burn

 
   

HTC Buys Cloud Sync Developer Dashwire

PC Magazine - Mark Hachman, Sara Yin - 6 Aug, 2011
HTC said Friday that the company has acquired Dashwire, a Seattle firm that specializes in cloud services to synchronize smartphones. HTC will utilize Dashwire's cloud sync and device set up products to extend the HTCSense.com cloud ...

HTC Buys Mobile Backup Service Developer

PCWorld - Nancy Gohring - 6 Aug, 2011
HTC aims to boost its mobile backup and sync services with the acquisition of Seattle company Dashwire. The companies did not disclose terms of the deal. Dashwire will become a subsidiary of HTC, which plans to use the new ...

HTC nabs Dashwire for cloud-based mobile and web apps

ZDNet (blog) - Rachel King - 6 Aug, 2011
Summary: HTC has signaled that it is looking to step up its cloud computing presence with the acquisition of Dashwire. HTC just inked a deal with Dashwire, a Seattle-based company founded in 2006 that ...

HTC posts record revenues, continues spending spree

Taipei Times - Jason Tan - 6 Aug, 2011
Customers try out HTC Corp mobile phones at one of the company's stores in Taipei on July 11. Ongoing lawsuits with archrival Apple Inc have not deterred HTC Corp (宏"電) from spending yesterday, as it announced the ...

HTC swallows cloud app biz Dashwire

Register - Paul Kunert - 6 Aug, 2011
Smartphone maker HTC has taken time out from its long-running patent battle with Apple to bid $18.5m for US web-based application developer Dashwire. The platform allows users to download apps, ...

HTC buys US web service firm Dashwire to boost cloud offerings

Focus Taiwan News Channel - 6 Aug, 2011
Taipei, Aug. 5 (CNA) Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp. has bought Seattle-based Dashwire Inc., a mobile-web application company, to strengthen its range of mobile cloud services offerings, the company announced Friday. According to media reports, ...

HTC Buys Dashwire For 'Cloud' Sync Of Devices

Barron's (blog) - Tiernan Ray - 6 Aug, 2011
Shares of HTC (2498TW) fell 54 New Taiwan Dollars, or 6%, to 798 after the company this morning said it will purchase privately held Dashwire of Seattle to enhance offerings in “cloud” computing. Dashwire's “Dashworks” hosted software ...

HTC Purchase Could Help in Patent Suits

Wall Street Journal - Paul Mozur - 6 Aug, 2011
TAIPEI"Smartphone maker HTC Corp. agreed to acquire all of the shares of US mobile Internet applications company Dashwire Inc. for as much as US$18.5 million, in a move that could give it more tools in possible future patent litigation ...

Taiwan's HTC acquires US technology firm

AFP - 6 Aug, 2011
TAIPEI " Taiwan's leading smartphone maker HTC on Friday announced the acquisition of Seattle-based Dashwire Inc. for up to $18.5 million, saying it would strengthen its skills in a new technology. Dashwire specialises in cloud services, ...

Taiwan's HTC July sales rise 83.3 pct year on year

Reuters - Clare Jim, Chris Lewis - 6 Aug, 2011
TAIPEI Aug 5 (Reuters) - Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp said on Friday that consolidated sales for July reached T$45.11 billion ($1.56 billion), up 83.3 percent from a year earlier. The result compared with T$24.61 billion a year earlier and T$45.05 ...

HTC purchases mobile backup service developer, Dashwire

Ubergizmo - George Wong - 6 Aug, 2011
While HTC is still under fire from Apple due to alleged patent infringement, it doesn't look like the Taiwanese manufacturer is letting those problems get in the way of its business. It has been recently reported ...

HTC buys Dashwire for $18.5M, gets cloud phone backup and patents

VentureBeat - Devindra Hardawar - 6 Aug, 2011
Slowly, but surely, HTC is building up its software expertise. The smartphone maker announced this morning that it has acquired Seattle-based Dashwire, creators of a mobile backup and synchronization service for smartphones, for $18.5 million. ...

HTC posts record sales (again), getting itself something nice (Dashwire) to ...

Engadget - Terrence O'Brien - 6 Aug, 2011
By Terrence O'Brien posted Aug 5th 2011 1:20PM While the top three smartphone makers (Apple, Samsung, and Nokia) garner most of the press, HTC is quietly becoming a juggernaut. IDC's number five just posted yet another month of record sales, ...

Mobile Synchronisation: HTC acquires Dashwire

Generation NT (US) - 6 Aug, 2011
HTC has purchased Dashwire, a developer who has created a synchronisation and content transfer solution for all platforms. HTC continues to grow their presence in the mobile phone universe as part of their strategy of becoming more than a handset ...

HTC buys Dashwire to bolster cloud services in Sense

IntoMobile - Marin Perez - 6 Aug, 2011
HTC plans to make its Sense UI much more cloud-friendly with the $18.5 million purchase of the cloud-service provider Dashwire. “Cloud services are key to delivering the promise of connected services to our customers,” said Fred Liu, HTC president of ...

HTC's Dashwire Purchase Likely All About The Patents

MocoNews - 6 Aug, 2011
As far as we can tell, we're the first to coin this: patacquisition: A company purchased solely for its patent portfolio. See: acqui-hire. There's perhaps no better way to describe HTC's purchase of cloud-computing company Dashwire Friday. ...

HTC acquires Dashwire to boost cloud computing aspirations

Fiercemobilecontent - Jason Ankeny - 6 Aug, 2011
Device maker HTC Corporation has acquired mobile applications and web services firm Dashwire. Financial details were not disclosed, although The Wall Street Journal reports the deal is valued as high as $18.5 million. Dashwire will continue as a wholly ...

HTC Buy Shores Up Patent Defenses

Light Reading - 6 Aug, 2011
The acquisition will help HTC expand its cloud-synch offerings and augment its Sense user interface with Dashwire's mix of Internet applications, including mobile instant messaging. The Seattle-based startup currently provides Internet storage ...

HTC Buys Mobile Sync Company Dashwire

TMC Net - Tracey E. Schelmetic - 6 Aug, 2011
Chinese electronics giant HTC (News - Alert) has reportedly purchased Dashwire, a company that builds a cloud-based mobile device syncing platform called DASHWORKS. The acquisition, which is reportedly ...

HTC improves cloud forecast with Dashwire buy

FierceWireless - Dan O'Shea - 6 Aug, 2011
Taiwan's HTC announced it is acquiring privately held, Seattle-based hosted software firm Dashwire (a 2010 Fierce 15 winner). The deal strengthens HTC's cloud connections at a time when Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iCloud offering appears ready to storm the ...

HTC syncs with Dashwire

Cloud Pro - Jennifer Scott - 6 Aug, 2011
The Seattle-based company is responsible for the Dashworks platform, which enables users to sync files, such as documents, music and photos, from mobile phones, as well as making calendar and contact information available remotely to your PC or Mac. ...

HTC Acquires Dashwire, With an Eye Toward the Cloud

eWeek - Nicholas Kolakowski - 6 Aug, 2011
HTC is the latest company to plunge deeper into the cloud paradigm, acquiring a company that builds software for syncing content across mobile devices. HTC is clearly interested in competing with Apple and other companies in the mobile-cloud game, ...

HTC buys mobile cloud startup Dashwire for $18.5M

TechFlash - Aislyn Greene - 6 Aug, 2011
Well, it's officially M&A week here in Washington. The latest Seattle company to be snapped up is Dashwire, a startup that provides mobile web services. It has been acquired by Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC for up to $18.5 million. ...

HTC puts its own head in the cloud

TechEye - 6 Aug, 2011
Dashwire makes Dashworks, which mostly lets you tinker with customising your smartphone and accessing your content through different devices and services. Dashworks supports other OS's like Symbian and Blackberry so the lifeline of support for those ...

HTC sales hit record high for July 2011

Tech Digest - Gerald Lynch - 6 Aug, 2011
HTC top dogs must be enjoying the sun on a particularly big yacht this summer, following the news that their company has posted its greatest ever monthly sales report. July 2011 saw HTC make $1.56 billion ...

HTC Buys Dashwire to Boost Mobile Cloud Service

Xconomy - Curt Woodward - 6 Aug, 2011
[Updated 2:40 pm Pacific] This week of acquisitions in Seattle tech is going out with a bang. Taiwan-based mobile device maker HTC announced early Friday that it is buying Seattle mobile data-syncing startup Dashwire for as much as $18.5 million, ...

LinkedIn shares wobbly as ever; toddlers love to eat smartphones, and use them

VatorNews - Ronny Kerr - 6 Aug, 2011
Surveying 30000 US mobile subscribers, comScore found the leaders in mobile: on the manufacturing side, it's Samsung, and on the platform side, it's Android. Google and Microsoft are still quarreling on blog and Twitter over the Novell patents, ...

Mobile phone back-up service Dashwire sells to HTC for $18.5M

GeekWire - John Cook - 6 Aug, 2011
This is giving new meaning to the term “daily deal.” In a continued flurry of activity in the M&A market, Seattle-based Dashwire today agreed to be sold to Taiwain smartphone maker HTC for up to $18.5 million. Founded by former Microsoftie Ford ...

HTC buys Dashwire to strengthen cloud offerings

Mobile Burn - Dan Seifert - 6 Aug, 2011
HTC has announced the purchase of Dashwire, a Seattle-based company that provides cloud services for Android, Windows Mobile, and Symbian smartphones. The purchase, which could be worth as much as $18.5 million, is said to strengthen HTC's cloud ...

HTC Expands Cloud Services with Dashwire Acquisition

PR Newswire (press release) - 6 Aug, 2011
TAOYUAN, Taiwan, Aug. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- HTC Corporation, a global designer of mobile devices, today announced the acquisition of Seattle-based Dashwire, Inc., the maker of the Dashworks platform that provides mobile and web applications, ...

 

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