Archive September 5, 2013

September 5, 2013

Microsoft adds Blackberry to phone stable?

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag acquisition, Americas, Apple, Asia, Blackberry, Canada, change, encryption, Europe, fail, film, finance, finland, government, intellectual property, lenovo, market, Microsoft, Mobile, Nokia, patent, research, rim, Samsung, south korea, technology

AMicrosoft having recently acquired the Nokia phone stable as platforms for Windows Phone are still rumoured to be looking at adding the Blackberry platform as well. In January of Samsung…

September 3, 2013

Vodafone to sell Verizon stake

By John Dixon in News Byte Tag BBC, divestiture, Europe, finance, Mobile, speculation, UK, Verizon Communications, vodafone

The BBC placed an article on their news website yesterday (2 September 2013). This said that Vodafone sells Verizon stake for $130bn. This equates to £84bn. Shareholders will get £54bn…