Encrypted comms company Silent Circle, which also makes a security-focused Android smartphone called the Blackphone, has announced it’s closed a $50 million Series C round of financing, led by Santander Bank. Read More Encrypted comms company Silent Circle closes $50M Series CThis entry was posted in Android Blackphone Europe Fundings & Exits Mobile privacy Security smartphones TC on July 15, 2016 by Natasha Lomas
Encrypted comms company Silent Circle is being sued by its former joint venture hardware partner, Geeksphone, for not paying part of a previous agreed sale price for buying out the latter’s share in the joint venture — and lurking at the heart of the dispute are flopped sales of the Blackphone smartphone the pair developed. Read More Silent Circle’s Blackphone revealed as a sales flopThis entry was posted in Blackphone Europe Mobile privacy Security smartphones TC on July 7, 2016 by Natasha Lomas
Silent Circle, the maker of encrypted messaging apps and a security hardened Android smartphone, called Blackphone, has discontinued its warrant canary. Read More Silent Circle silently snuffs out its warrant canary — but ...This entry was posted in Android Blackphone Mobile privacy Security TC on July 5, 2016 by Natasha Lomas
Finnish mobile OS maker Jolla, whose Sailfish platform is one of the few remaining alternatives trying to fight the Android-iOS duopoly, has pulled out of its latest financing death valley by closing a delayed Series C financing round. Read More Sailfish OS Lives To Fight Android Another Day As Jolla ...This entry was posted in Android Blackphone Europe Fundings & Exits Jolla MeeGo mer Mobile operating system privacy sailfish Sailfish OS Security smartphones tablet computer TC on December 18, 2015 by Natasha Lomas