I've been out and about gathering opinions on Blackberry (BBRY), the handset and mobile communications company that is trying to find a buyer. The investment and trading community doesn't

So Blackberry Ltd. (BBRY) has formed an special committee to explore strategic options. Maybe they need an extra-special committee.This morning BlackBerry Ltd. (BBRY) announced these moves to extract shareholder

Here's a company to watch: Goodman Networks. Yesterday the wireless network builder announced it is buying Design Build Technologies, a wireless construction company that builds and maintains communications towers

Internet video advertising company YuMe successfully went public today, raising about $46 million in total proceeds and achieving a market cap of about $320 million, but it priced 5.1

It's Tuesday. Amazon.com announced on Monday it is buying the Washington Post, for $250 million. This was just a few days after Red Sox owner John Henry announced he

Can you believe it? Wireless devices are in the news. Time for a roundup of recent activity, including today's introduction of the Moto X, Motorola new Android phone. Remember:

Long-time communications tech entrepreneur Cheng Wu wants to help the telecom industry with a makeover. His company, Azuki Systems, is looking to turn the telecomms into media moguls using

If you track the tech media these days, you would think the Venture Capital (VC) was this sexy, explosive industry with fantastic results and rocket-like growth. You would be

With tech earnings underway, hedge-fund traders have more stocks to manipulate than ever (just kidding, kind of). It's been a volatile earnings season, with many beaten-down tech stocks --

Cisco just pulled off the biggest deal since its blockbuster acquisition of NDS for $5B in 2012, buying publicly traded SourceFire (FIRE) for $2.7B. The move is an interesting

Internet video is an incredible story. Just take a look at the influence of YouTube, arguably the most successful of all Internet video startups. Google bought YouTube for $1.65B

Need to move print content online? Looking at how to build an app, or distribute your content to the tablet world? I just finished an investigation into tablet publishing

As a media person, I hear lots of distress about the future of the industry. Content creation jobs are becoming more scarce, budgets are tighter, and there is a

Don't look now, but there's another crisis in Europe -- a crisis in the telecom industry. Telecom Italia is under siege. So is Telefonica. Debt levels are high, dividends

This is what happens when a software company messes around in the most competitive consumer hardware market on earth: a $900M mistake. Microsoft announced its earnings today and said

Good know all the money being pumped into mobile devices is going somewhere. Verizon Communications (VZ) reported a solid second quarter with a profit of 73 cents per share

It's the one-year anniversay of Marissa Mayer taking over as the CEO of the Internet site for old geezers, Yahoo. That means it's cause for the Silicon Valley sycophants

AT&T on Friday announced it's buying independent carrier Leap Wireless Inc. (LEAP) for about $1.2 billion in a bid to scale up in its battle against goliath rival Verizon.Leap's

The big news in the tech press this week is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is reorganizing his company to try to make it good again (or at least boost

I recently got back from a visit to Boulder, CO, one of my homes away from home. There was palpable excitement in the air about noodles. You see, the

Great, my worst nightmare has come true. T-Mobile has a plan to allow my family members to get new devices pretty much whenever they want.

I'm back in publisher mode, in the early stages of an overhaul of this website, The Rayno Report. This has led me to look at advertising and sponsorship strategies,

Online video advertising specialist Tremor Video (Nasdaq: TRMR) went public today, but the results weren't spectacular and this IPO dud is likely hang over a crop of venture-funded ad

Oracle is hogging the tech press these days, making more headlines yesterday with a new 9-year deal with Salesforce.com . Nine years. Most marriages in Beverly Hills don't last