Qualcomm Buys Elata for Mobile Content Delivery

Qualcomm announced that it has acquired mobile content delivery software provider Elata for $57 million in cash. Elata is based in the United Kingdom. This acquisition comes only a week later than Flarion, for which it paid $600 million. "The benefits of this acquisition are threefold," said Peggy Johnson, president of Qualcomm Internet Services. "...supporting the overall delivery of content while maintaining backwards compatibility with operators' current devices through open standards; strengthening our commitment to meeting the needs of operators worldwide; and quickly bringing new value-added services to market without additional hardware requirements." murdok. Visit murdok for the