paidContent.org: Associated Press Invests in Mobile News Startup Verve Wireless

"A rare strategic investment from Associated Press: it has invested in mobile news services start up Verve Wireless. The first round of $3 million included Associated Press, Iron Capital, and other investors in the Encinitas, CA-based company. Verve is headed by Art Howe, who received a Pulitzer prize while at the Philadelphia Inquirer and was also the former president of Village Voice Media...the firm’s President is Tom Kenney, a former VC with BlueRun Ventures (former Nokia venture arm)."