| Public | NASDAQ:QCOM |
| Date | 12/91 |
| Raised | |
| Post IPO Valuation |
| Website | qualcomm.com |
| Category | Communications |
| Phone | (858) 587-1121 |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 1985 |
| Description | Telecommunications Company |
| Total | $3.25B |
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| ip.access | 12/11 |
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| Viewdle | 10/10 |
| TweetPhoto | 4/10 |
| Plixi | 3/10 |
| Avaak | 3/10 |
| Visage Mobile | 2/10 |
| Arteris | 12/09 |
| modu | 1/09 |
| Siimpel Corporation | 11/08 |
| Streamezzo | 12/07 |
| Siimpel Corporation | 10/07 |
| A123 Systems | 10/07 |
| obopay | 7/07 |
| PixSense | 6/07 |
| GoTV Networks | 3/07 |
| Juice Wireless | 3/07 |
| obopay | 9/06 |
In July 1985, seven industry veterans came together in the den of Dr. Irwin Jacobs’ San Diego home to discuss an idea. Those visionaries—Franklin Antonio, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen, Irwin Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi and Harvey White—decided they wanted to build “QUALity COMMunications†and outlined a plan that has evolved into one of the telecommunications industry’s greatest start-up success stories: Qualcomm Incorporated.
Qualcomm started out providing contract research and development services, with limited product manufacturing, for the wireless telecommunications market. One of the team’s first goals was to develop a commercial product. This effort resulted in OmniTRACS®. Since its introduction in 1988, OmniTRACS has grown into the largest satellite-based commercial mobile system for the transportation industry today.
This early success led the company to take a daring departure from conventional wireless wisdom. In 1989, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) endorsed a digital technology called Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA ). Just three months later, Qualcomm introduced Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), a superior technology for wireless and data products that changed the global face of wireless communications forever.
Today, Qualcomm plays a central role in the rapid adoption and growth of 3G and next-generation wireless around the world. Qualcomm’s current intellectual property portfolio includes more than 7,200 United States patents for wireless technologies, with more than 145 telecommunications equipment manufacturers licensing them worldwide.
Since 1985, Qualcomm’s visionary technology leadership has been carrying the world forward, changing it by improving the way people communicate, work and live. And with that same pioneering spirit, Qualcomm is still innovating, still chipping away at the boundaries of what’s possible, still changing the world, one idea at a time.
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| Website | neerlife.com |
| Tags | application, android, mobile-phones, qualcomm |
Neer is an app, currently in beta for android, that lets users automatically and selectively share their location. Notifications are customizable, and based on user-defined lists of people and places.
Neer allows you to privately and automatically share your location with the people you care about. Not everywhere you go, just the places that really matter.
Neer works in the background so you don’t have to. Go ahead, leave work and leave your phone in your pocket. We’ll let your loved ones know you’re on your way!
| Website | qilroy.com |
| Launch Date | August 24, 2010 |
Qilroy allows you to join a conversation anywhere in the world using your phone or computer. Simply type in a location (Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, etc.) and discover what people are saying in real time. Whether it’s a football game, local gathering, concert, or event, when you enter the location, you will instantly see what everyone there is saying. Using Qilroy, you can post questions to others at the location, share your thoughts, or just check out the vibe. You can also connect with your friends at these locations, see what they’re saying, and let them know where you are and what’s happening. Qilroy is all about allowing you to connect with people and the world.
Snapdragon is a name of an architecture of a family of chipsets with an ARM-based CPU. The architecture was developed by Qualcomm (which calls Snapdragon a “platform”) for use in smartphones and mobile computing devices.
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