The biggest webmail providers in Germany will soon encourage their customers to use full-blown end-to-end email encryption. The providers, including Deutsche Telekom and United Internet, will next month roll out a… Read more »
Update: Mozilla has told TechCrunch that the WSJ’s framing of this as a partnership around an actual phone was inaccurate. In other words, there’s absolutely no news here beyond the more… Read more »
The pairing-off of major U.K. telecommunications players continues: On Friday, Three’s Hong Kong owner, Hutchison Whampoa, said it was now in exclusive takeover discussions with Telefónica’s O2. The merry dance began… Read more »
BT, the company once known as British Telecom, said on Monday that it is now exclusively negotiating a possible £12.5 billion ($19.6 billion) takeover of the mobile carrier EE, a joint… Read more »
The company said on Monday that it was in preliminary acquisition talks with two carriers, one of which it confirmed as being O2. The other is reportedly EE. Read more »
The anti-tracking service has also revealed a partnership with Deutsche Telekom, which unlike some carriers seems to be more interested in protecting its customers than selling them out to advertisers. Read more »
Germany’s Deutsche Telekom has launched an enormous venture capital fund, totalling €500 million ($621 million) over five years, that’s aimed at newer startups and more mature companies. The fund will be… Read more »
Neelie Kroes hasn’t given a public opinion about zero-rated mobile content and apps, but her office has told anti-zero-rating advocates that it’s a competition issue rather than a net neutrality issue… Read more »
Xyo’s touch-centric technology, which is based on fine-grained “micro-categories” of apps, will be quickly integrated with Digital Turbine’s offering for its imminent deployment with Verizon and Vodafone Australia. Read more »
The German company is partnering with the Atos division to help customers control their home appliances from their mobile devices. Worldline also joined the connected home consortium EEBus on Thursday. Read more »