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Articles tagged with: Verisign
VeriSign Sells m-Qube for Fraction of the Price it Paid
verisign has sold its mobile messaging aggregator business, m-Qube to Mobile Messenger for just under US$20 million. Under the terms of the agreement, Mobile Messenger obtains m-Qube's direct connections to carriers in the US and Canada, and its entire business delivering standard commercial messaging and premium mobile content to customers throughout North America. more
VeriSign Sells its Mobile Messaging Division to Syniverse
verisign has announced that it is to sell its Messaging Business to Syniverse Holdings for cash consideration of US$175 million, subject to working capital adjustments. The business has an annual revenue run-rate of approximately $140 million over the last 12 months, and the transaction is expected to be immediately accretive to Syniverse's cash net income. more
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RealNetworks Loses Arbitration with VeriSign Over SMS Alliance
RealNetworks has announced that it has lost a legal action with verisign over an alliance between the two companies, and that contractual limitations on the financial penalties had been overturned. The alliance referred to verisign Metcalf Intercarrier SMS, an outsourced inter-carrier messaging solution for wireless carriers. Together with RealNetworks, it powers inter-carrier mobile messaging for eight of the top 10 wireless carriers in North America and other major operators throughout the world. more
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VeriSign Continues to Break its Mobile Messaging Records
Mobile messaging volumes continue to shatter records, according to the latest quarterly index of mobile messaging statistics compiled by verisign's Messaging and Mobile Media Division. During the first quarter of 2009, verisign, which delivers 60 percent of the text and mobile message traffic in the U.S. inter-carrier market, recorded a new high of nearly 84 billion messages delivered throughout the quarter. more
Related Tags: text-messaging, sms, mobile-content, USA
VeriSign Sells Part of European Mobile Messaging Unit
A part of verisign's mobile messaging business in Europe, which was formerly derived in 2006 from the acquisition of Austrian company 3united, is once again, in the ownership of Austrian hands. The new owner is Sinon Invest Holding, and the new name of the company, which specialises in mobile messaging and focuses primarily on the development and delivery of interactive mobile applications, will be mobile messaging solutions (mms). more
Related Tags: mms, mobile-messaging, encryption, presence, cfo
VeriSign to Provide PKI Authentication to WiMAX Industry
The WiMAX Forum has selected verisign to provide security solutions based on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). As a trusted Certification Authority, verisign is set to perform critical certificate lifecycle functions for WiMAX service providers and device manufacturers including secure key generation and storage as well as certificate issuance, validation, revocation, and renewal. more
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News Corp Pays $200 Million for Remainder of Crazy Frog Firm
verisign says that it has sold its minority holding in the mobile content firm, Jamba to News Corporation for approximately $200 million. News Corporation originally acquired controlling interest in verisignÃ's wholly-owned Jamba subsidiary in 2007 and combined it with the Fox Mobile Entertainment unit. more
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Mobile Messaging Numbers Continue to Skyrocket
verisign has announced another record-breaking quarter for mobile messaging, based on the latest quarterly index of mobile messaging statistics compiled by the company's Messaging and Mobile Media division. more
Related Tags: mobile-messaging, sms, text-messages
ROAMSYS Secures Roaming Reseller Agreement
ROAMSYS, a provider of RAEX (Roaming Agreement Exchange) solutions has announced a referral arrangement with the verisign Communications Services division, a US based wireless clearing agent. Under the terms of the agreement, ROAMSYS will provide RAEX solutions to verisign customers. more
Related Tags: roaming, gsm-association
VeriSign Settles PrePaid Billing Patent Clains
Freedom Wireless says that it has settled a patent infringement suit against verisign on Freedom Wireless' claims that verisign infringed three of Freedom Wireless' patents relating to prepaid wireless systems and on verisign's counterclaims alleging non-infringement, invalidity and unenforceability of those patents. more
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