Submission + - Bloomberg pays $80,000 to Ubuntu Edge smartphone project (v3.co.uk)
DW100 writes: Ubuntu has secured a surprise enterprise backer of its $32m Edge smartphone crowd-funding push with corporate powerhouse Bloomberg signing up to the top tier Enterprise 100 package, worth $80,000. Chief technology officer at Bloomberg, Shawn Edwards, said the firm wanted to give its support to the innovate open source project as it could have real benefits for its IT workforce.