Sound Bites (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
There are times -- when the sweat is pouring down your back, the smell of garbage is pervasive, the line for Nathan's is too long to bother (same for the icky porta-potties) -- that schlepping all the way out to...
iTech News Net (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
We’ve got the Shape Up! Alarm Clock and the HACKED! USB flash drive, and here is yet another interesting gadget called HEAT ME, which is an USB heated Stirrer. By plugging the device into the USB port, HEAT ME’s metal coil will heat up for optimal coffee heating power. You may be disappointed if you are [...]
CrunchGear (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Virgin Mobile, which recently announced plans to acquire Helio, continues to mature while mostly avoiding growing pains. With 5.1 million customers and well over a billion dollars in revenue last year, the MVNO seems well situated to expand. VM has consistently stood apart from the pack by continuing to offer no-contract plans and in the [...]
Engadget Mobile (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Filed under: Handsets , Samsung , Helio , EV-DO , MVNOs , CDMA Just because Virgin's scooping up Helio doesn't necessarily mean the product parade needs to stop (not to say it was moving at anything more than a glacial pace to begin with), and to that end, the MVNO has just released its Mysto and Heat models in white and red, respectively. The creatively-named White Mysto and Red Heat are initially...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
SK Telecom is South Korea's largest mobile phone carrier, but they're definitely interested in a U.S. presence—it was a partner in Helio (before it got sold), and had a rejected $5 billion investment...
Treonauts (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
A couple of months ago I wrote a post entitled An Apple in your Palm which highlighted the many former key senior Apple Computer executives that are now working at Palm on the development of: 1) a next-generation hardware platform...
Mobility Site (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
This went down last Friday and while it’s a huge deal, doesn’t affect me in anyway, so it went unnoticed for the most part on my radar. There has been a lot of info posted Friday and this weekend about this acquisition, so I will throw some links out there for those that care. If [...]
The Register (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Can the cool survive? In a union of hipster-friendly mobile operators, Virgin Mobile USA has agreed to purchase Helio for $39m in stock.…
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Virgin Mobile purchased Helio today for $39 million in equity. Helio is a small MVNO that made its name by selling powerful and high-end telephones aimed at technophiles and, thanks to an investment by South Korea’s SK Telecom, Korean-Americans. As part of the deal, Virgin Mobile is also receiving $50 million to pay down [...]
CrunchGear (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Rumors surrounding the possible merger and/or acquisition between Virgin Mobile and Helio began surfacing in May. Shortly after this rumor circulated around the Web we learned that Helio’s Chairman Sky Dayton and VM’s CEO Dan Schulman met with Best Buy during CTIA. The following day SK Telecom, Helio’s biggest backer, sent out a release stating [...]
Unfortune (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Virgin Mobile purchased Helio today for $39 million in equity. Helio is a small MVNO that made its name by selling powerful and high-end telephones aimed at technophiles and, thanks to an investment by South Korea’s SK Telecom, Korean-Americans. As part of the deal, Virgin Mobile is also receiving $50 million to pay down [...]
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Virgin Mobile USA has agreed to acquire Helio mobile phone division from SK Telecom and Earthlink for an investment that totals $50 million. The deal ends a high-profile attempt by South Korea’s SK Telecom to break into the U.S. market with a uniquely designed series of cell phones. But SK Telecom will own about 17 percent [...]
Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
$39 million stock transaction for ailing telecoms firm
Gearlog (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
RIP, Helio. Helio is dead. I'd love to rant about...
Unwired View (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
The rumors are true, people! It is now official that Virgin Mobile has purchased Helio for $39 million. This has certainly been a big week for Virgin, as they announced unlimited calling plans just a couple days ago for $79.99; now, Virgin will not acquire Helio’s customers, it will also take over Helio’s inventory and billing [...]
