June 2012

Google (GOOG) won a key court victory yesterday in Northern California when Federal Judge William Alsup ruled that 37 of Oracle’s Java APIs are not protected by copyright law. APIs …

Verizon Communications is betting big on the machine-to-machine space, and by big we mean $612 million big. The telecom giant announced this morning that it plans to acquire Hughes Telematics …

Reporting remotely on the All Things D conference has its advantages and disadvantages, with the primary drawback being the inability to feel the energy of the event firsthand. I’d guess …

Another player looking to grow in the Brazilian mobile virtual network operator market is the French mobile virtual network enabler Sisteer. The company was granted a license to operate as an …

China’s Huawei Technologies expects its Brazilian unit’s revenues to reach $5 billion by 2016, with its enterprise business making up $1.5 billion of the total. This would be a jump …

Telefónica is planning an initial public offering of its German O2 unit as a move to raise cash to pay-down debt and protect the company against América Móvil’s efforts to …

Vietnamese-owned Viettel, an operator with assets in Haiti and Peru, has shown interest in expanding into other Latin American markets. Viettel announced it will start operating in Peru in January 2013, …