T-Mobile to Acquire 700 MHz A-Block Spectrum from Verizon Wireless

T-Mobile US will acquire certain 700 MHz A-Block spectrum licenses from Verizon Wireless for $2.365 billion in cash and the transfer of certain AWS and PCS spectrum licenses, which have an aggregate estimated value of approximately $950 million. Also, as part of the transaction, the two companies will realign spectrum blocks in certain markets, primarily in northern California and the Atlanta area. T-Mobile said the deal provides it with important...

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AT&T's Sponsored Data Follows 1-800 Free Calling Model

AT&T is launching a new "Sponsored Data" service that uses the 1-800 free phone number model to provide access to sponsored mobile content and apps to eligible 4G customers without impacting their monthly wireless data plan.  Data charges resulting from eligible uses will be billed directly to the sponsoring company. AT&T said its Sponsored Data will be delivered at the same speed and performance as any non-Sponsored Data content. "As...

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Orange Business Services acquires Atheos for CyberDefense

Orange Business Services has acquired Atheos, a cyberdefense company based in Paris, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2002, Atheos is a pioneer of IT identity and security management on the French market. In particular, Atheos helps with the provisioning of stronger access control and data-loss prevention policies, as well as advanced identification of security breaches and vulnerabilities, the detection and analysis of "low-noise" attack signals,...

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Cyan Cites Big Sales Drop from Largest Customer

Cyan now expects Q4 2013 revenue to be in the range of $20 million to $21 million, below the company’s previous guidance of $30 million to $33 million. Cyan blamed the revenue drop on lower sales to its largest customer, which decreased its purchases by approximately 88% from $19 million in Q3 2013 to $2 million in the fourth quarter. Revenue for the full 2013 year is expected to be in the range of $116 million to $117 million. For the year, revenue...

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Palo Alto Acquires Start-up Focused on Protecting National Infrastructure

Palo Alto Networks has acquired Morta Security, a Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity company operating in stealth mode since 2012.  Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Palo Alto Networks said the acquisition bring a team experienced at protecting national infrastructure as well as technologies that enhance the proven detection and prevention capabilities of its WildFire offering, which is already used by more than 2,400...

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Silicon Valley Networking Start-up Map

Here is a map of networking start-ups in Silicon Valley.  Listing our pulled from our Start-up Directory and our Start-up News category....

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Broadcom Intros 3x3 MIMO 802.11ac Chip

Broadcom introduced two Wi-Fi system-on-a-chips (SoCs) for streaming HD-quality content, online gaming and other high-bandwidth applications in the home. The BCM43569 is a dual-band 2x2 MIMO combo chip (5G WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1) with a USB 3.0 interface and advanced coexistence technology that enables smart TVs to receive both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals simultaneously. The solution uses a separate Bluetooth low-noise amplifier (LNA) coupled with...

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The Carlyle Group Hires Former FCC Chairman to Head U.S. Buyout Team

The Carlyle Group, a global investment fund with over $185 billion under management (NASDAQ: CG), named Julius Genachowski a Managing Director and partner in the U.S. Buyout team. Genachowski, who served as FCC Chairman from 2009 till last year, is expected to focus on investments in global technology, media and telecom, including Internet and mobile. He will be based in Washington, DC. Carlyle said its U.S. Buyout team recently completed the...

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Open Automotive Alliance Brings Android to Cars

The Open Automotive Alliance, a new industry group backed by Google, GM, Audi, Honda, Hyundai and Nvidia, has been launched with a mission to extend the Android ecosystem into cars. The OAA aims to accelerate auto innovation by leveraging Android's openness, customization and scale. The group will pursue an open development model and common platform to allow automakers to more easily bring cutting-edge technology to their products. The first cars...

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EchoStar Acquires Solaris Mobile, a Holder of European Satellite License

EchoStar Corp. has acquired 100% ownership of Solaris Mobile Ltd., a mobile satellite services (MSS) operator based in Dublin, Ireland and one of the European Union licensees of mobile satellite service with a complementary ground component (S band).  Financial terms were not disclosed.  Solaris Mobile is a joint venture between Eutelsat and SES. Solaris Mobile is deploying a satellite and terrestrial network for wholesale access to enhanced...

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TE SubCom Achieves 13 Tbps on 6,500-km Undersea Cable

TE SubCom completed the second installation of its next generation coherent fiber optic subsea system and achieved 13 Tbps capacity over a distance of 6,500 km without any regeneration. TE Subcom said the new system is a pan-Asian system (customer name not disclosed) with a longest path of over 6,500 km.  It combined a specially designed underwater fiber plant as well as TE SubCom's commercially available coherent C100U line card that features...

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Qualcomm Debuts Snapdragon Processors for Cars

Qualcomm introduced an automotive-grade, Snapdragon infotainment chipset. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 602A applications processor offers  quad-core Krait CPU,  Adreno 320 GPU, Hexagon DSP, integrated GNSS baseband processing and additional high-performance audio, video and communication cores. The device is designed to meet stringent automotive industry standards for temperature, quality, longevity and reliability and is AEC-Q100 compliant....

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Ikanos Intros New High-Performance Gateway Processors

Ikanos Communications introduced a new line of Fusiv Vx500 processors for next-generation smart residential gateways. Ikanos' Vx58x vectoring xDSL gateway processors deliver an aggregate (combined upstream and downstream) data rate of up to 400Mbps with VDSL2 bonding, while providing 11GHz of offload processing for cloud access, dual-band, dual-concurrent WiFi acceleration (AC1750), LAN management and QoS, and secure content processing and distribution....

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