Wandera, a startup that offers enterprises a cloud-based solution to reduce the costs of mobile data through compression and better management, is announcing that it has closed $7 million in funding. The Series A round comes entirely from Bessemer Venture Partners, and is in addition to a seed round Wandera quietly raised last year from angels including Klaus Hommels and Alex Zubillaga. Wandera… → Read More
Apps can decay pretty quickly without updates after deployment. The problem is, most of the time the only one who can make the updates to the app is the person who developed it. AppGlu’s new mobile enterprise platform is designed to handle this updating so a business person can make updates without developer intervention. → Read More
Some consolidation is afoot in the world of mobile enterprise services. Orlando, Fla.-based Kony Solutions has bought Sky Technologies, a mobility solutions provider specializing in SAP implementations based in Melbourne, Australia. Both companies are private and the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The deal is the first acquisition for Kony, which has to date raised $34.1… → Read More
Amid fierce smartphone competition between Samsung and Apple that has spilled into a multinational patent battle, it looks like Apple may have opened yet another front on the M&A side: it is buying mobile security company AuthenTec — which had only just signed a deal with Samsung for Android devices — for $356 million.
AuthenTec, among other things, makes fingerprint sensor chips that are… → Read More
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