Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference just wrapped up, having confirmed some surprises and not-so surprises. As expected, the company unveiled its new OS X Lion, new iOS 5 and iCloud. Read our coverage for the full details below (and sift through our WWDC archive). View the keynote on Apple.com.

While everyone else was waiting for news that Sprint (NYSE: S) was about to merge with T-Mobile USA, AT&T (NYSE: T) had a different deal in mind. In a startling Sunday afternoon announcement, AT&T said it is acquiring the fourth-largest carrier in a deal valued at $39 billion:  Deutsche Telekom…

Jay Penske’s Mail.com Media Corp., which has been busily buying up media sites, is selling its Mail.com e-mail business to German internet firm United Internet Group. The sale means Mail.com Media Corp.—which will soon be getting a new name—will now primarily be made up of the media sites it has…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is announcing today the latest version of the iPhone operating system, which will come with at least 100 new features, like five times zoom in the camera. But Steve Jobs says there’s seven major updates coming today. Here’s the list in real-time: 1. Multi-tasking: This is the…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which shook up the e-mail industry when it integrated chat with e-mail, is now trying to catch up to its rivals by letting Gmail users share status updates. The WSJ reports that Google will soon add a “new module that will allow Gmail users to view a…

SMS GupShup has raised $12 million to help build out its texting-based mobile-phone communities in India. The company, which has operations in both Santa Clara, Calif. and Mumbai, India, claims to serve 26 million users in roughly two million topics, ranging from religious groups to sports teams. The fourth round…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) India today launched a voice search application for mobile phones that run on the Nokia S60 platform. Most Nokia (NYSE: NOK) phones in the N and E series, apart from some models by Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), use the S60 platform, which is designed for…

Ad spends in print and television in India grew 28% year-on-year during the April-June quarter, Mint reports, citing a Nielsen study. Ad spends growth in India led a resurgence in the Asia Pacific region, which overall grew 11% to $29.96 billion during the period. The story has differing voices from…

Twitter has sealed a deal with Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile carrier, that will let its wireless subscribers receive tweets by SMS for free, and send them at standard rates. Co-founder Biz Stone said the company had worked “quickly” to get cheap, full-service SMS set up for users in India,…

India’s mobile phone companies added 14 million subscribers in July, up from 12 million additions in June, according to data from India’s telecom regulator. In January this year, India added 15 million mobile phone subscribers, the most ever. The country now has a total of 479.04 million telecom subscribers, of…

Indian Space Research Organization last week launched Bhuvan, the much anticipated satellite-based 3D mapping application that has been dubbed by many as the ‘Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Earth killer”. We have been testing the site, currently in beta, since yesterday, and can safely say that it won’t pose a challenge to…

UK-based 2ergo, a mobile marketing company, has acquired UK-based Activemedia Technologies Group, which is focused on the mobile ticketing and coupon market, serving the UK, India and Southeast Asia. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, however, 2ergo said Activemedia employs more than 50 people in London, New Delhi and…

MapMyIndia, a leading maps and GPS Navigation services provider, today launched a handheld GPS navigation device named MapMyIndia Light. Smaller and sleeker than the earlier offerings typically seen fitted in automobiles, the latest product is a handheld and weighs only 122 grams. “MapmyIndia Light is powered with maps of 401…

Bharti Airtel Ltd, India’s largest telecom firm by market share, today said it has formed a joint venture with France’s Alcatel Lucent to manage its broadband and fixed line services. The JV will lead the telco’s migration into next generation networks to offer advanced services such as high speed Internet,…

Malaysia based media conglomerate Astro Group has acquired a 50 percent stake in online firm Mogae Digital for $5 million. Mogae Digital is promoted by Sandeep Goyal and Tanya Goyal, the Indian JV partners of Japanese giant Dentsu, the single largest ad agency in the world. The proceeds of the…

State-run Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) has said that it plans to launch 3G telecom services in national capital New Delhi in next 10 days. MTNL plans to launch 3G services in the commercial capital Mumbai by first week of February, reports PTI (via Business Standard). MTNL has not tied…

India’s 3G auction may be headed for more delays after its finance ministry decided that the base price of the sale should be doubled, reports the Economic Times. The bidding for the country-wide licenses was set to open on January 30, with a reserve price of 20.2 billion rupees ($412…

The original iPhone generated a lot of interest in India, selling well on the grey market, so it went to reason that when the 3G version launched officially in the world’s fastest growing wireless market, that it too would sell well. But apparently, that’s not what happened, with sales of…

Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), which operates as Vodafone Essar in India, is seeking to postpone the country’s 3G auctions, currently scheduled for December. The reason? The global financial crisis, reports the Economic Times. In a communication sent to India’s Department of Telecom (DoT)Emerging markets director Neil Gough said, “Mobilising financial commitments…