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Facebook-backed 2Africa set to be the longest subsea cable upon completion

Facebook announced on Tuesday that its 2Africa cable would now extend to over 45,000 kilometers with the addition of nine landings collectively dubbed the 2Africa Pearls. The subsea cable will directl

Rajeev Suri to step down as Nokia CEO; Pekka Lundmark to take over

Rajeev Suri, the chief executive of Nokia, is stepping down from his leadership role after overseeing the Finnish networking giant for more than half a decade. Pekka Lundmark, the outgoing President a

Google is building a new private subsea cable between Portugal and South Africa

Google today announced Equiano, a new private subsea cable that will connect Portugal and South Africa. The cable will be built by Alcatel Submarine Networks and the first phase of the project is sche

Investors like Walmart and Microsoft back Team8’s cybersecurity venture studio with $85 million

The Israeli cybersecurity venture studio Team8 has raised $85 million in new financing from a clutch of new and returning strategic investors including Walmart, Airbus, SoftBank, and Microsoft&#8217

Nokia Agrees To Buy Alcatel-Lucent For $16.6B

Nokia has announced that it plans to move ahead with the purchase of Alcatel-Lucent, less than one day after confirming that the two companies were discussing a deal. Nokia will pay $16.6 billion in s

Nokia Acquisition Talks With Alcatel-Lucent Could Be About 5G

Nokia confirmed today it was in talks to buy Alcatel-Lucent and the underlying reason just might be the latter’s 5G patent stash. When I was at Mobile World Congress last month, there were sever

MuleSoft Buys Programmable Web From Alcatel-Lucent, Marking The Telco’s Departure From A Core API Community

MuleSoft has acquired Programmable Web from Alcatel-Lucent effectively marking the telecommunication company’s exit from a core API community. For MuleSoft, a data integration company, the deal

Alcatel-Lucent Creates Methodology For APIs And Makes Available Under Creative Commons

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal">Alcatel-Lucent</a> is releasing a methodology for APIs that it is making available through Creative Commons. It is part of a new cons

Patent Troll WiLAN Targets Apple, HP, HTC, Dell And Others In Yet Another Suit

Self-proclaimed "technology innovation and licensing company" <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/wilan">WiLAN</a>, billed as a notorious patent troll by most anyone else (and often, much worse

Dear Mobile App Developers, OpenPlug is now free!

<img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-18436" title="openplugsn" src="http://fr.beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/openplugsn.png" alt="" width="245" height="160" />With all the larger a

Alcatel-Lucent acquires OpenPlug for cross-platform mobile app developement

<img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-25536" title="Openplug" src="http://eu.beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/Openplug.bmp" alt="" />It's <a href="http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal?COU

Alcatel-Lucent Buys OpenPlug and Flexes its Cross-Platform Mobile Apps Muscle

<img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-25536" title="Openplug" src="http://eu.beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/Openplug.bmp" alt="" />It's <a href="http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal?COU

Alcatel-Lucent Acquires Web API Repository ProgrammableWeb

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/pweb.png" class="shot2" /> <a href="http://www.programmableweb.com/">ProgrammableWeb</a>, a well-known repository for Web APIs, has been acqu

AT&T starts LTE field trials later this year, commercial deployment in 2011

Are you as excited as I am about LTE and the blazing fast data speeds it promises? Sure you are. And while you’re undoubtedly holding your breath waiting for 4G service and handsets, AT&T is

Airvana and Alcatel-Lucent combine femtocells with IMS

Airvana and Alcatel-Lucent announced plans to jointly develop a CDMA/EV-DO femtocell platform that incorporates an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The two said that: “this initiative will ensure that

Airvana and Alcatel-Lucent combine femtocells with IMS

Airvana and Alcatel-Lucent announced plans to jointly develop a CDMA/EV-DO femtocell platform that incorporates an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The two said that: “this initiative will ensure that

Microsoft vs. Alcatel-Lucent goes to round three

It’s going to get messy between Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent before it’s over. French-based Alcatel-Lucent is claiming that Microsoft is violating certain patents it holds for video frame