Years after Mozilla canceled its own Firefox OS project, the nonprofit is again involved in work to make its browser technology a core foundation for mobile phone software. This time it’s helping out KaiOS Technologies, the company that picked up the Firefox OS pieces and now offers them for use in feature phones as a …
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Mozilla Chief Executive Chris Beard will resign at the end of 2019 after more than five years of leading the nonprofit behind Firefox. His tenure includes the expansion of the organization’s focus beyond the web browser and a new priority on preserving our privacy against pervasive online tracking. He took over Mozilla in 2014 at a tumultuous time when co-founder …
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Chris Beard, CEO of Firefox browser maker Mozilla, reportedly wants to offer premium services and subscriptions as part of a new income plan. In an interview with German magazine t3n published Friday, Beard suggested this might include a secure storage solution or a VPN service. “We want to add more subscription services to our mix and focus more on the relationship …
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Apple quietly bought artificial intelligence startup Silk Labs, according to a report. The acquisition occurred earlier this year, The Information reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed source. Silk Labs specializes in developing on-device AI software, meaning it doesn’t have to communicate with the cloud, where companies potentially would have access to huge amounts of personal data. The San Mateo, California, company …
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Three years ago CNET addressed whoever might step into Mozilla‘s then-empty CEO slot and asked 10 questions about the future of the nonprofit organization behind the Firefox browser. It was a chaotic time, with Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich quitting after a controversy over his stance on gay marriage, and Google‘s Chrome increasing its threat as the browser of choice for …
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Acadine Technologies, a startup trying to give phone users a software alternative to the dominant powers of Google and Apple, is on its last legs. With no new funding in hand, last month’s warnings of possible layoffs at Acadine are materializing. The company’s entire engineering staff will lose their jobs this week. In addition, the Hong Kong-based startup is warning …
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An attempt to breathe new life into old-school flip phones is in trouble because a Chinese investor is withholding funds from a startup whose software is at the core of the effort. Tsinghua Unigroup International paid only the initial portion in 2015 of its planned $100 million investment in Hong Kong-based Acadine Technologies, leading the startup to warn dozens of …
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Chances are that if you bought a phone today, it would run on Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android software. That’s because when people think of a handset, their minds immediately go to an iPhone or a device made by the likes of Samsung or LG Electronics. But that isn’t stopping Acadine Technologies, founded by one of the folks behind the …
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A Hong Kong-based startup aims to pick up where the creator of the Firefox OS left off. Nonprofit software maker Mozilla, best known for its Firefox browser, said earlier this week that it had dropped its efforts to team up with carriers for a smartphone operating system designed to challenge the dominance of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. Firefox OS …
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Former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal Mozilla Mozilla, best known for its Firefox browser and operating system, has lost the man responsible for the core technologies of both products. Chief Technology Officer Andreas Gal has left Mozilla after nearly seven years to launch a startup that hopes to provide the computing brains for the Internet of Things — a broad idea …
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