| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.09.2019 | Google, Skype y fondos de VC de Silicon Valley venden sus participaciones en Fon al equipo directivo | 06/09/2019
GOOGLE, SKYPE Y FONDOS DE VENTURE CAPITAL DE SILICON VALLEY VENDEN SUS PARTICIPACIONES EN FON AL EQUIPO DIRECTIVO.
Google, Skype y fondos de venture capital de Silicon Valley han vendido sus acciones en Fon Wireless al equipo d... |
| 29.05.2019 | Martin Varsavsky, fundador de Fon Wireless, vende su 51% a la compañía | 29/05/2019
MARTIN VARSAVSKY, FUNDADOR DE FON WIRELESS, VENDE SU 51% A LA COMPAÑÍA.
El emprendedor de origen argentino Martín Varsavsky, fundador de Fon Wireless hace 14 años, ha vendido a la propia compañía todas sus acciones que asciende... |
| 03.01.2019 | La sharing economy è la migliore risposta alla crisi economica dei nostri anni | Mettere in comune un bene o un servizio è il modo migliore non solo per risparmiare ma anche per fare del bene all’ambiente. Si evita infatti uno spreco di risorse, e nel caso del car sharing con automobili elettriche in condivisione, si co... |
| 06.09.2018 | Разделяй и радуйся: как шеринг-экономика меняет мир | Инвестировать в недвижимость или купить дорогой автомобиль? Дом мне может надоесть, и я захочу переехать, а дорогой автомобиль через год перестанет быть самым новым. Зачем тратиться на них, если можно взять в прокат? Так я гарантирую, что в... |
| 26.10.2017 | Fon joins prpl Foundation to accelerate open-source innovation for the Digital Home and Carrier WiFi | Fon also joins the prpl Carrier Interest Group, prplWrt working group, and common API task group
SANTA CLARA, CALIF – 26 October 2017 – The prpl Foundation, an open-source, community-driven, not-for-profit consortium with a focus enabling t... |
| 20.02.2015 | Fon Receives €5M growth Capital Loan from Silicon Valley Bank | Fon, a Madrid, Spain-based global WiFi network, received a €5m growth capital loan from Silicon Valley Bank.
The business will use the capital to pursue its global growth strategy.
Founded in February 2006 by serial entrepreneur Martin Vars... |
| 15.04.2014 | Varsavsky Bets On The Gramofon As A New Take On Social Music | Today, crowd-sourced Wifi network operator Fon launched its new Gramofon device on Kickstarter. This offers a simple Fon-like Wi-Fi sharing functionality via a simple Facebook log-in, can be plugged into any music speakers and comes with a ... |
| 21.01.2014 | Fon cierra una ronda de $14M liderada por Qualcomm Ventures | 21/01/2014
FON CIERRA UNA RONDA DE $14 MILLONES LIDERADA POR QUALCOMM VENTURES, ACUDEN INDEX VENTURES, ATOMICO, CORAL, GOOGLE VENTURES Y DEUTSCHE TELEKOM.
Fon, la red Wifi colaborativa creada a partir de personas que comparten altruistame... |
| 21.01.2014 |
Qualcomm Leads $14M Investment In Fon
| San Diego-based wireless technology developer Qualcomm is the lead investor in a $14M round for Spanish Wi-fi sharing network operator Fon, the companies have announced. According to Fon, it raised $14M in a new financing round, led by Qual... |
| 21.01.2014 | Fon Raises $14M in Funding | Fon, a global WiFi sharing network, raised $14m in funding.
The round was led by Qualcomm Ventures, the venture capital arm of Qualcomm Inc., with participation from existing investors Index Ventures, Google, Coral, Atomico and Deutsche Tel... |
| 20.01.2014 | Crowdsourced WiFi Network Fon Picks Up $14M Led By Qualcomm, Adds Facebook Integration | Fon, a free “crowdsourced” WiFi network that is created out of people sharing a portion of their private WiFi connections, is today announcing another $14 million in funding led by Qualcomm Ventures as it gears up to tackle new areas like t... |
| 29.01.2013 | Deutsche Telekom negocia su entrada en FON | 29/01/2013
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM NEGOCIA SU ENTRADA EN FON.
Deutsche Telekom, el mayor operador alemán de telecomunicaciones, está negociando su entrada en el capital de la operadora de telecomunicaciones wifi, FON. Ambos grupos ya habrían fir... |
| 28.06.2011 | Fon creates largest WiFi network in Belgium – Here's an awesome graphic to explain why | Global WiFi network Fon is partnering up with Belgacom, Belgium’s largest telecommunications company, to create the largest WiFi community in Belgium. Of course, that means Belgacom internet customers now get access to the than 4 million+ h... |
| 11.03.2011 | Japan gets free wi-fi from FON until quake emergency ends | FON, a company that manages a large network of wi-fi hotspots, is opening up its 500,000 some-odd hotspots in Japan to web surfers for free until the country’s state of emergency following a massive earthquake and tsunami comes to an end.
T... |
| 21.02.2011 | FON recibe €10 millones de Atomico para su expansión en EE.UU | 21/02/2011
FON RECIBE €10 MILLONES DE ATOMICO PARA SU EXPANSIÓN EN EE.UU.
La operadora de telecomunicaciones wifi FON, liderada por el emprendedor argentino Martín Varsavsky, ha recibido recursos por importe de €10 millones ($13,5 millone... |
| 16.02.2011 | Fon Raises $13.5 Million In New Round To Expand In The US | Fon has secured €10 million ($13.5 million) in a new funding round led by Atomico, the VC firm founded by Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype. The company markets wifi routers which turn domestic connections into a network of publicly acc... |
| 16.02.2011 | Fon raises $13.5 million in funding round led by Atomico to put the US in its sights | Fon has secured €10 million ($13.5 million) in a new funding round led by Atomico, the VC firm founded by Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype. The company markets wifi routers which turn domestic connections into a network of publicly acc... |
| 16.02.2011 | Fon Secures €10M in Funding | Fon, a Madrid, Spain-based company that operates a WiFi network, has secured €10m (approximately $13.5m) in new funding.
The round, which was led by Atomico, with participation from Coral Group and other existing investors, brings the total... |
| 07.01.2011 | Film site MUBI pulls in $2.4 million to socialise cinema buffs | MUBI, the online cinema platform, says it’s hit a significant growth curve recently, crossing one million registered users. It’s also raised $2.4 million from Angels to strengthen its balance sheet and grow the team in a round round led by ... |
| 07.01.2011 | Film Site MUBI Secures $2.4 Million To Socialise Cinema Buffs | MUBI, the online cinema platform, says it’s hit a significant growth curve recently, crossing one million registered users. It’s also raised $2.4 million from Angels to strengthen its balance sheet and grow the team in a round round led by ... |
| 10.12.2009 | Peek Email Device May Find Life In Europe: The PeekFON | The U.S. press hasn’t been particularly kind to the Peek email device. It isn’t that it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do – email. The issue is more that people already have their phones to do this, and those phones can also deal with ima... |
| 10.12.2009 | Fon To Distribute Peek In Europe For €99 A Pop | Simple communication gadget Peek is making its way to Europe, courtesy of Spain-based Fon, whose founder and CEO Martin Varsavsky is making the announcement later today at the Le Web conference here in Paris.
Prior to his stage appearance, ... |
| 09.12.2009 | How to be the world’s greatest ISP | reader comments 94 with 79 posters participating
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| 24.10.2009 | Review: Fonera 2.0n | Short Version
The Fonera 2.0n router essentially gives you free WiFi anywhere in the world for a one-time fee of $100. It may or may not work, but it’s worth a try.
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If there’s one thing I hate about travel it’s paying for WiFi. WiFi,... |
| 24.09.2009 | Don't look now, but the Fonera2n router is now available | The Fonera name doesn’t really mean much here in the U S of A, but it’s a little more popular in Europe. (I know I occasionally ran into Fonera Wi-Fi networks in Barcelona last year, and I had never seen one in Manhattan or Queens in New Yo... |
| 11.08.2009 | Spotify appoints Global Head of Business Develoment | The Spotify team just got one bigger with the appointment of Faisal Galaria (@fais) as Global Head of Business Development. Galaria was previously international MD of Kayak.com. He served as VP of global business development at Fon and once... |
| 14.07.2009 | Fonera+ gets upgraded to 2.0, adds built-in torrent download and upload services, other goodies | As you recall Fon makes wireless routers for sharing. You install the Fon node in your house, share it with others, and then are given access to other Fonera routers around the world. It’s sort of a viral Wi-Fi community.
Now, however, the ... |
| 16.01.2009 | Five uses for an invisibility material (other than dumb Harry Potter references) | Haven’t you heard? Scientists have finally invented the perfect tool for porn shopping, shoplifting and general mayhem: A material that can redirect wavelengths within the electromagnetic spectrum, effectively vanishing from sight.
In 2006,... |
| 20.10.2008 | Is The Economic Crisis Affecting European Startups At All? | A lot has already been said and written about the current economic crisis, and how the financial meltdown is and will keep on affecting startups in the US. VC’s and angel investors are telling their portfolio companies to say goodbye to the... |
| 01.08.2008 | Google's plans to invest more money into startups with VC arm | In mid-2005, Google began experimenting with venture capital investments in startup companies. Now, over three years later, the Wall Street Journal reports the search company has plans to start an arm dedicated only to this kind of investme... |
| 02.06.2008 | Productivity on the Road | I was supposed to finish this piece last Friday to cap off productivity, but, in fact, I was traveling. That’s right. I couldn’t do a piece on travel productivity because I was traveling.
Trust me: it wasn’t for wont of gear that I didn’t t... |
| 11.04.2008 | Free WiFi plan going global | A Spanish start-up is making headway in achieving its aspiration of spreading free WiFi internet access around the world, TechCrunch reports.
The company, called Fon , works by creating a sort of exchange for WiFi users. They sell you the W... |
| 10.04.2008 | Wireless startup Fon raises $9.5M | Fon, a Spanish startup hoping to build “the world’s largest wireless community”, has raised $9.5 million in a third round of funding, according to TechCrunch.
Coral Capital Management led the round, with participation from British Telecom, ... |
| 10.04.2008 | Fon Raises Another $9.5 Million In C Round | Fon, the Spanish startup that wants to bring free WiFi across the planet, just raised $9.5 million (six million Euros) in a C round led by Coral Capital Management. Also investing was British Telecom (which struck a distribution partnership... |
| 11.02.2008 | Roundup: Ads up, AOL launches mobile social platform, and more | updated
1) Online advertising up 28 percent
2) Yahoo confirms $160M acquisition of Maven
3) AOL to launch mobile soc-net platform
4) Starbucks to offer somewhat-free WiFi
5) Topanga, next-gen lighting, funded by Khosla
6) Stealth division a... |
| 18.01.2008 | Fon Wants Residents of San Francisco's Castro District to Share Their Wi-Fi | “Give to receive” is the mantra of a new initiative by Spanish startup Fon to bring “free” Wi-Fi to the residents of San Francisco’s Castro District.
The plan is the same one tried by Fon elsewhere: the company gives people Wi-Fi routers to... |
| 15.01.2008 | Macworld.Ars: Registration Mayhem | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| 04.10.2007 | BT buys into the FON WiFi network | The UK’s top fixed-line telco, British Telecom, has partnered with with Wi-Fi startup FON which will allow its three million UK broadband customers to roam across eachother’s WiFi hotspots, and those of FON users across the planet.
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| 04.10.2007 | BT invests in WiFi community start-up, FON | UK’s phone giant BT has invested in the WiFi router start-up FON, in an effort to cover the UK with what they proclaim will be the “world’s largest WiFi community.”
BT has more than 3 million broadband customers. Under the deal, BT will “in... |
| 04.10.2007 | Fon Inks Deal With British Telecom | Spanish WiFi startup Fon is invading England. In its quest to turn everyone’s home and business WiFi router into a worldwide network of shareable hotspots, Fon just inked a long-rumored deal with British Telecom. BT’s three million broadban... |
| 15.08.2007 | San Francisco Gets Second Wi-Fi Option | A small Mountain View, Calif. based company isn't waiting for EarthLink and Google to iron out contractual details to provide free Wi-Fi in the city of San Francisco.
Meraki would use volunteers who would manage routers themselves to mainta... |
| 10.07.2007 | Tear down this Wall! | (Editor’s note: This is an opinion piece by Paul Grim, a General Partner at SunBridge Partners, the US affiliate of Japan-based SunBridge Corporation)
We recently celebrated President Reagan’s famous quotation from twenty years ago, a chall... |
| 22.06.2007 | La Fontenna Extends Range Of FON Wireless Goodness | This is simple really: FON lets you share your wireless Internet connection with FON community members (called Foneros) and in return you get to hop on any other member’s wireless connection free of charge, anywhere in the world. The La Fon... |
| 07.03.2007 | Social router company, FON, raises $13M amid new competition | (Updated, corrected investor information)
FON, the Madrid, Spain company that offers routers to people that FON members can share if they want, has raised a second round of funding.
It has received $13M from existing investors Index Venture... |
| 04.02.2007 | BT to mesh with FON? | BT, the giant UK carrier, is on the verge of wrapping up a deal with the Spanish start-up FON, which will let BT customers make cheap calls on FON WiFi hotspots.
Reports about the talks surfaced here (and this story has good details), and a... |
| 30.01.2007 | Whisher tackles FON — launches its own WiFi nation | Honestly, we never got FON, the company that sells a WiFi router so that you can share your WiFi with others.
FON claims 50,000 nodes, and that it is the “largest WiFi network in the world,” so it appears to be having some traction.
Whisher... |
| 11.12.2006 | Understanding Mobile 2.0 | Written by Rudy De Waele of m-trends.org and
edited by Richard MacManus. This kicks off a mini-series of posts on the topic of Mobile
2.0, which we will explore on R/WW this week.
On the eve of Le Web 3 in Paris – and one month after the We... |
| 26.10.2006 | Roundup: FON’s gambit, Obvious, Zachary’s blog, Vox & more | Roundup in Silicon Valley:
FON exploits opportunity to stir up WiFi interest in San Francisco — Search engine company Google is having a heck of a time getting “crazy nut job” local SF residents to agree to its plans for a city-wide WiFi pr... |
| 08.10.2006 | Roundup of best Silicon Valley news: YouTube, FON, Ning & more | Catching up:
YouTube is making $7.5 million a month –Everyone has been guessing whether YouTube is profitable, given the high costs it faces hosting all its videos. This guy says YouTube is doing $7.5 million a month in ads, and is profitab... |
| 25.09.2006 | VoIP Sans The PC – Jajah, Rebtel Make Announcements | Lately there has been a lot of talk about new VoIP services that work without
needing to be on your computer. Tonight two announcements were made:
1) Jajah Mobile, which
claims to take the computer out of the Jajah equation. Now you can mak... |
| 24.09.2006 | RebTel gets on the Index | A few weeks ago I wrote about two new London based companies Truphone and ConnectMeAnywhere which offer cheap international calls on your mobile by redirecting a local call via VoIP. I also briefly mentioned the Swedish company RebTel which... |
| 17.08.2006 | Top Spanish Web 2.0 Apps | Next in my
series on top international Web apps is Spain. The previous countries profiled were Germany, Holland, Poland, Korea, United Kingdom and
Russia.
The information in this post comes from two people: Eduardo
Perez Orue from the Spani... |
| 07.02.2006 | FON atrae €18 millones de Sequoia, Index, Google y Skype | VARSAVSKY CONSIGUE 18 MILLONES DE GOOGLE, SKYPE Y VARIAS ENTIDADES DE CAPITAL RIESGO PARA LANZAR FON.
Martin Varsavsky continúa con paso firme para desarrollar la comunidad wifi que ha bautizado como FON. El secreto de esta empresa atípica... |
| 06.02.2006 | Skype, Google Back WiFi Net Sharing | Fon Technology, a Spanish start-up that provides technology to allow users to share Internet access with neighbors, announced Monday that it had secured 18 million Euros ($21.7 million USD) in financing from Skype, Google, and two venture c... |
| 05.02.2006 | FON goes for “WiFi nation” — a start-up to watch | This company is sure to generate some buzz.
A number of big-name technology investors — including Skype and Google, have put $21 million into a company called FON that wants to build a global WiFi community allowing members to share WiFi ho... |
| 15.01.2006 | Community Powered Wifi | Frequent readers know that I am a fan of free and ubiquitious wifi. I think its critical for the continued development of the Internet and online services. But as many commenters point out, its unclear who is going to pay for the deployment... |
| - | В Украину приходит социальная WiFi-сеть | В Украину приходит социальная WiFi-сеть
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Получать бесплатный интернет-доступ и им делиться с остальными пользователями предлагает международный проект FON. В нашей стране его партнером стал Прива... |
