Twitter acquires mobile security start-up company

The hacker and security researcher who goes by the name Moxie Marlinspike has spent the last years building a few of the most noteworthy inventions in applied cryptography, some independently and some for his mobile security startup, Whisper Systems. Now it seems he?ll be building them for an unlikely new boss: Twitter. Whisper Systems announced ...

Lots of companies want to let their employees use personal devices for work purposes but aren't yet doing so. There are a ton of security and privacy concerns with such a move, especially if an employee loses their device. VMware and Verizon's enterprise group say they've got a solution for this nightmare scenario.

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Yahoo has just acquired Propeld, the maker of a local-recommendations app called Alike, according to Alike's website.

Twitter has acquired Summify, a Vancouver-based social news aggregator."We're extremely excited to announce that Summify has been acquired by Twitter!" Summify announced on its website on Thursday.Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.Summify provides users with a summary of news from members of their social networks and delivers it by email, through a Web browser or to a mobile device."Our long-term vision at Summify has always been to connect people with the most relevant news for them, in the most time efficient manner," Summify said.

Twitter has acquired Summify, a Vancouver-based social news aggregator."We're extremely excited to announce that Summify has been acquired by Twitter!" Summify announced on its website on Thursday.Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.Summify provides users with a summary of news from members of their social networks and delivers it by email, through a Web browser or to a mobile device."Our long-term vision at Summify has always been to connect people with the most relevant news for them, in the most time efficient manner," Summify said.

Thanks to paperwork Twitter has to file in Ireland, we seem to have discovered two previously unknown Twitter subsidiaries—which may well point to some unreported acquisitions the company made.

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