Mozilla Ends Its Ambitious Firefox OS Experiment

The Firefox OS smartphone will soon be no more. Mozilla announced on Tuesday that it would stop developing and selling smartphones based on its experimental mobile operating system.

Telefónica Acquires Startup eyeOS, Entering the Cloud Competition for Business

Telefónica, one of the largest Spanish telecommunications companies with a big presence in Latin America, announced this week that it had acquired eyeOS, a cloud computing startup behind a suite of open source web applications. With this acquisition, Telefónica further enters the realm of enterprise internet solutions, as well as open-source software.

Why Facebook is Buying WhatsApp for $19 Billion: Mobile and Emerging Markets

Facebook has decided to make its largest purchase ever with the acquisition of popular messaging service WhatsApp. Why did this messaging app fetch one of the largest sums in the web industry's recent history? Here are a few reasons.

Telefónica and Firefox OS Team Up to Bring Line App to Latin American Customers

Firefox Operating System and Telefónica just made a deal to bolster its entry into the burgeoning Latin American wireless market. Telefónica and FireFox just announced a partnership with Line, a calling and messaging app, that will give Telefónica subscribers with Firefox OS phones exclusive access.
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