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Amsterdam-based digital security firm Gemalto says it will close on an $890 million deal to buy SafeNet later this year. “We have just entered into our new multi-year development plan, and there is a perfect fit between Gemalto’s ‘security at the edge’ and SafeNet’s ‘security at the core’ capabiliti
Now that cell phone unlocking is again legal in the U.S., many smartphone users may be interested in unlocking their devices, either for carrier switching purposes, or for selling their old devices that were purchased with a new contract, and thus were locked to a certain operator. Luckily, for T-Mo
Rumor has it Google and HTC are working together on a new mid-sized Nexus 8 tablet and now several fresh details have been revealed. According to a new report from Twitter tipster @upleaks the device will ship running Android L, which we pretty much already assumed since it’s already available for t
The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, has today branded the EU’s Right to be Forgotten ruling as a “deeply immoral” and dangerous step towards the “sanitisation of human knowledge.” “History is a human right,” Wales warned gravely, “and one of the wor
If you can’t join them, beat them. That’s the message from T-Mobile after Sprint this week decided not to pursue a merger with the Bellevue-based wireless carrier. After some initial smack talk, T-Mobile CEO John Legere took things a step further — predicting that T-Mobile will surpass Sprint in tot
There’s no sign that Amazon and Hachette are close to burying their e-book hatchet, which has prompted the authors caught in the middle to speak up. One of those affected, Douglas Preston, penned an open letter to Jeff Bezos, requesting that he stopped singling out individual Hachette authors
It’s becoming more and more obvious, if it wasn’t already, that we don’t have that much time to cut greenhouse gas emissions before climate change is out of control: One recent U.N. report suggests that energy systems will have to completely transform by 2050. So what might that ac
We already heard that Sony would be hosting its usual press event during IFA early next month, but today we get official confirmation with screenshots of press invites making their way online. As previously reported, the event is scheduled for September 3rd and the invite seems to hint at device ann
Retention Science, a Santa Monica, Calif-based retention marketing firm, has raised $7 million in Series A financing. Upfront Ventures led the round with participation from investors that included Baroda Ventures, Forerunner Ventures and Mohr Davidow Ventures. In conjunction with the funding, the fi
Big data has emerged as a big trend over the last several years, but as an area it has remained ill-defined and focused for the most part on data scientists, while ignoring business users. Adatao wants to change that by offering a solution that has something for both parties and a collaboration envi
Scribd is rolling out a revamped version of its unlimited digital book service today. E-book subscription services are getting more popular lately, partly because Amazon finally starting to offer one of its own, Kindle Unlimited, last month. Scribd compete’s with Amazon’s service as well as with est
Just a week after T-Mobile announced strong second quarter results, exceeding Wall Street’s expectations, the company announced that it’s become the top prepaid wireless service provider in the US with 15.6 million customers. Sprint, which is now number two in prepaid, has a total of 15.
