After 9 years of providing mobile and internet-based messaging services to hundreds of millions of users worldwide, eBuddy has been acquired by hotel booking platform and fellow Dutch company Booking.com.…
G3 Wireless operates a global roaming SIM card that we’ve featured here on TruTower for awhile but never actually covered. There was very little news that escaped the G3 Telecom…
Nokia shareholders have today approved the Microsoft deal to purchase the company’s phone division, with 99.7 percent of about 5,000 shareholders approving the deal according to the Financial Times. When…
There are a lot of messaging and calling applications, most of which we cover right here on TruTower. It’s a fragmented space, a road to travel with seemingly endless offramps…
We knew acquisitions of various calling and messaging apps would inevitably happen and they have. Skype was acquired by Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5 billion and Fring was acquired for…
BlackBerry Messenger looks like it could be making the Canadian company a much more attractive acquisition target. BBM climbed to 80 million users just this week after only one week…
BlackBerry Ltd. reached a tentative agreement with Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. to be acquired for $4.7 billion or $9 a share in cash. The consortium is still seeking financing for…
Sad times in Waterloo, Ontario today, as BlackBerry, the company behind BlackBerry Messenger has decided it is backing away from the consumer market entirely due to massive losses totaling nearly…
