Green Dot to buy mobile deals company Loopt
The prepaid card marketer Green Dot Corp. said Friday that it agreed to buy the location-based deals company Loopt Inc. Green Dot, of Monrovia, Calif., said the acquisition would allow it to build out a mobile wallet and rewards system.
Cell phone market gorilla Nokia is buying Trolltech ASA, the force behind the Qtopia GreenSuite application platform and user interface for Linux on mobile devices, for $154 million.