Uber bought mapping company deCarta today, as first reported by Mashable and confirmed by the on-demand ride company. The San Jose-based startup provides technology for turn-by-turn navigation and local search with its… Read more »
PayPal is buying Paydiant, a startup that provides the mobile payments and loyalty technology used by many big-name retailers use in their apps, for an undisclosed amount. PayPal also announced on… Read more »
Google and the mobile carriers have long been at odds over mobile payments, but faced with the runaway success of Apple Pay, the two rivals have become friends. AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile… Read more »
The negotiations are over: pending regulatory approval, BT will get back into the U.K.’s mobile scene in a big way by buying EE from Deutsche Telekom and Orange for £12.5 billion… Read more »
After getting suspended from the New York Stock Exchange, RadioShack is probably headed for bankruptcy, but it looks to have a couple of potential buyers lined up to take over its… Read more »
Pixelapse has announced the company is being acquired by Dropbox: Pixelapse + Dropbox We started Pixelapse with the mission of building the definitive version control and collaboration platform for creatives. Since… Read more »
Slack has announced the acquisition of Y combinator alum Screenhero, and will be integrating that company’s voice, video, and screen sharing capabilities into Slack over time. Screenhero will continue to operate… Read more »
AT&T’s plans to tackle the Mexico market aren’t just limited to buying a single mobile operator Iusacell. It announced Monday it is buying Iusacell’s competitor Nextel Mexico for $1.875 billion from… Read more »
I’ve met with two of the founders of Cloudon — Milind Gadekar and Jay Zaveri –several times in 2014, and I was unsurprised to learn that Dropbox had stepped forward to… Read more »
The U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office has dropped its investigation into Hewlett-Packard’s allegations of fraud by the management of British big data firm Autonomy, which HP bought in 2011. In a statement… Read more »