Life360 reportedly sells precise, identifiable location data
Self-styled “family safety platform”, Life360, is alleged to have sold the precise location data of its users to many data brokers, which then sell it on to all kinds of customers.
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Exfo founder boosts offer to take company private
Germain Lamonde, who founded Canada’s communications-sector test, monitoring, and analytics equipment maker Exfo and is its majority shareholder, has boosted his offer to take the company private.
Apple and Google suspend some of their eavesdropping
Two of the world’s leading voice assistant makers pulled the plug on the respective analytics programmes of Siri and Google Assistant after private information including confidential conversations were leaked.
Google cloud dives deeper into the data dreamland
Google’s cloud business unit has announced the acquisition of data analytics firm Looker for $2.6 billion, further expanding products available in the ever-growing world of cloud.
UK police are using AI to make precrime a reality
The UK local councils and police forces are using personal data they own and algorithms they bought to pre-empt crimes against children. It could go horribly wrong.
HERE adds mobile operators to its monetisation map
The location and mapping service company HERE, in partnership with data analytics company Continual, launched two new data services, HERE Cellular Signals and HERE Traffic Analytics, aiming to increase its values for mobile operators in addition to the transport and autonomous car industries.
IBM continues down the road to recovery
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and IBM’s readiness for the connected era certainly took some time, but another solid quarter perhaps demonstrates the corner has finally been turned.
Cisco wants to help IT departments win the WAN war
The growth in remote working means employees increasingly connect to the company via the WAN, which creates a special challenges for IT departments.
Nokia goes all-in on digital cities
Nokia has announced a series of initiatives designed to position itself strongly as a supplier of digital city products and solutions.
InfoVista writes $45m cheque for Ascom’s Network Testing biz
InfoVista has bolstered its network analytics business through a $45 million deal to acquire Ascom’s Network Testing division, TEMS.
IBM and Cisco join forces over IoT analytics
IBM and Cisco have extended a long-standing partnership to enable real-time IoT analytics and insight at the point of data collection, reports BCN.
Exclusive: VimpelCom targets 5G pioneer tag
The CTO of VimpelCom has said the operator wants to be the global pioneer of 5G, talking exclusively to Telecoms.com.
Oracle releases analytics suite for telcos
Enterprise software giant Oracle has unveiled a new product portfolio called Oracle Communications Analytics, a business intelligence suite aimed at communications providers, reports BCN.
SAP aims new Vora analytics software at telcos
SAP has released new software that it claims will make analytics easier for users of open source Hadoop software and specifically help telcos optimise their bandwidth, reports Business Cloud News.
WeDo launches customer profiling software
Portuguese business assurance outfit WeDo has launched a new software suite designed to help telcos better profile their customers and anticipate commercial opportunities.
Amdocs launches big data suite for telcos
CEM software giant Amdocs has launched a suite of applications designed to give communications service providers (CSPs) greater access to big data and analytics.
Astellia highlights benefits of customer segmentation
At Mobile World Congress 2015, network intelligence outfit Astellia took the opportunity to demonstrate some of the customer segmentation tools contained within its Nova Customer Analytics product.
SpatialBuzz enhances cloud CEM platform
UK crowd-sourced network analytics outfit SpatialBuzz has announced a major enhancement of its cloud-based customer experience management (CEM) platform, which is consequently now called HDAnalytics+.
Apple, IBM launch MobileFirst iOS enterprise apps
Apple and IBM have launched what they said is the first in a series of iOS applications for enterprise iPhone and iPad users to access IBM’s big data analytics capabilities. The solutions, named IBM MobileFirst for iOS, mark an unprecedented collaboration between the two tech giants.
Yahoo snaps up Flurry to boost mobile play
Internet company Yahoo has confirmed the acquisition of mobile analytics specialist Flurry as it seeks to reinforce its commitment to “building and supporting useful, inspiring and beautiful mobile applications and monetisation solutions.”
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