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Samsung Ventures America has made a $4 million funding in a wireless charging startup called PowerbyProxi. The system that this company has developed allows multiple devices to be placed on a single charger for wireless charging. The system also allows more flexibility on how the devices are positioned on the single charger. Senior investment manager at Samsung Ventures America, Michael Pachos, will now be joining PowerbyProxi’s board as both companies are also forming a strategic partnership. Recently PowerbyProxi announced that it had become an ally of the Wireless Power Consortium, a group that backs the popular Qi wireless charging standard.

The investment from Samsung comes as part of the wireless charging company’s ongoing Series C funding round. PowerbyProxi’s CEO Greg Cross has said that the fact that they have received this investment from “the world’s leading consumer electronic brand,” is in itself an endorsement of the company’s wireless power IP portfolio. Samsung Ventures’ Michael Pachos says that wireless power transfer is going to “significantly change the way consumers use and interact with their devices.” It remains to be seen what fruits the strategic partnership both companies have formed will bear, nevertheless, $4 million for a wireless charging startup is definitely going to be welcome injection.

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Qualcomm, the founding member of Alliance for Wireless Power (or A4WP in short), made a surprise move today by joining the management board of the rival Wireless Power Consortium (or WPC), the group behind the already commercially available Qi standard. This is quite an interesting development considering how both alliances have been openly critical of each other, and yet now there’s a chance of seeing just one standard getting the best of both worlds. That is, of course, dependent on Qualcomm’s real intentions behind joining the WPC.

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Just before a smartphone turns up at the debutante ball, the internet comes alive with frenzied claims about what the new hardware will offer. While most of ’em turn out to be wishful thinking on behalf of whoever entered the data, we imagine that standards are a little stricter over at the Wireless Power Consortium. It’s there that a listing has popped up claiming that BlackBerry’s as-yet unannounced Z30 will support Qi wireless charging. The listing goes on to say that the smartphone will pack a medium power receiver, capable of pulling 120 watts from a charger, which should be enough to juice that (rumored) 2,800mAh battery in short order.

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This week we’ve gotten the opportunity to have a close-up look at both the AT&T version of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 Active and their official wireless charging kit for the original Galaxy S 4. The Charging Kit you’re seeing here works with the Qi standard for wireless power pushing and has an extremely simple

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Need a place to charge your phone wirelessly and have a cup of coffee? It looks like San Francisco’s Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf outlets have you covered.

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