{"id":138041,"date":"2010-01-04T23:07:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T04:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/04\/exclusive-apple-to-buy-quattro-wireless-for-275-million-boomtown\/"},"modified":"2010-01-04T23:07:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T04:07:10","slug":"exclusive-apple-to-buy-quattro-wireless-for-275-million-boomtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/138041","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Apple to Buy Quattro Wireless for $275 Million [BoomTown]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kara.allthingsd.com\/files\/2010\/01\/Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cea31_Logo-249x57.png\" alt=\"Logo\" width=\"249\" height=\"57\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22595\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple is set to announce that it has acquired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quattrowireless.com\">Quattro Wireless<\/a> for $275 million, several sources confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement might come as soon as tomorrow, upping the ante in the mobile advertising business significantly.<\/p>\n<p>Google (GOOG) recently forked over an astonishing $750 million for AdMob, a Quattro competitor, which Apple (AAPL) had also made a bid to acquire. <\/p>\n<p>Both start-ups are aimed squarely at the fast-growing market to advertise on smartphones, such as Apple&#8217;s iPhone and Google&#8217;s Android devices. In fact, Google will unveil the Nexus One tomorrow, a Android-powered mobile phone it designed and will sell on a Web site instead of via telecom companies.<\/p>\n<p>Waltham, Mass.-based Quattro has raised close to $30 million from two main venture investors&#8211;Highland Capital Partners and Globespan Capital Partners. Founded several years ago, its clients include Ford (F), Disney (DIS) and the National Football League.<\/p>\n<p>An Apple spokesperson declined to comment to BoomTown and emails to Quattro have not yet been returned.<\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kara.allthingsd.com\/20100104\/exclusive-apple-to-buy-quattro-wireless-for-275-million\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is set to announce that it has acquired Quattro Wireless for $275 million, several sources confirmed. The announcement might come as soon as tomorrow, upping the ante in the mobile advertising business significantly. Google (GOOG) recently forked over an astonishing $750 million for AdMob, a Quattro competitor, which Apple (AAPL) had also made a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}