And Intel even agreed to help fund a mobile device lab with Nokia ( NOK) in Oulu, Finland, in recent weeks.
The aim: to be the preeminent venture fund in the mobile industry.
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Other analysts are known to have published reports praising companies to the skies, and then tell fund managers who ring up for more information to call back on a private mobile number - so the analysts can tell the fund manager (on a phone line that is not being tape recorded) to ignore the report and avoid the stock like plague.
MachineWorks NorthWest partnered with Tapjoy as part of the Tapjoy Android Fund, designed to bring top-quality mobile games and applications to the Android platform.
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Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the PalmPilot and the Treo mobile phone, used a chunk of his money to fund research into understanding the nature of consciousness, and he even wrote a book on the topic.
The model I base on the writings of mutual fund legend Peter Lynch is also high on China Mobile.
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As co-managing partner of the BlackBerry Partners Fund, he invests in companies that make applications for mobile computing devices.
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We are seeing a series of experiments with different MMO monetization models at present, but all have the same problem: games which cost as much as or more than a full-sized game are hard to fund with a model best applied to small, repetitive mobile and social games.
Rowe Price fund has 1.83% of its portfolio in China Mobile (nyse: CHL - news - people).
The fund's biggest holding is the Tennessee-based Clayton Homes, a maker of mobile homes that accounts for 6% of the portfolio (once as much as 7%).
Save the Children Fund, which runs shelters in Mongolia to get children back into society, also pays for mobile kindergartens that follow nomadic herders.
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The fund will be invested over the next three to four years and is aimed and fueling innovation for mobile devices.
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