France, UAE
Interceptions company Trovicor mutates to become DataFusion.ai

Canada
Trovicor, a European pioneer in interception, goes under Canadian ownership

Originally from Germany but taken over by French owners, the owner of Trovicor's successor has just been bought out by a Canadian telecoms giant.

Armenia, France
French defence eyes Armenian developer Addevice's AI language tools

France is interested in the instant translation tools developed by a small company in Yerevan, Armenia, that already has French business connections.

France
Nexa renamed RB 42 with new cybersecurity focus

Nexa Technologies has divested itself of its intelligence activities to focus on cybersecurity, and has renamed itself RB 42.

The Tech Times
ODNI pores over cyberintel industry, Fabian Kaiser moves to ISTARI Global, Sacha Bailly heads Dataminr's defence sales and Belgian spyware

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each Thursday, we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

WashingtonIs the US clamping down on the cyber intelligence industry?

MunichFabian Kaiser takes over ISTARI Global's office in Munich

ParisSacha Bailly, French Navy and Airbus veteran takes helm of Dataminr's defence activities in France

BrusselsIntelligence oversight committee gives green light to Belgian spyware development

Europe
ChapsVision and Cy4gate continue to consolidate Europe's cyber intelligence sector

By buying up smaller companies, ChapsVision and Cy4gate are each looking to build up a dominant position in the European cyber intelligence business.

France
ChapsVision wins first phase in building French intelligence service's future Big Data platform

The wait is over to find out more about the French General Directorate for Internal Security's Big Data platform project, aimed at replacing Palantir's Gotham Platform. Three firms have been retained so far.

France
DGSE heard in Amesys case

French courts are trying to unravel the French foreign intelligence service's involvement in the Libyan and Egyptian aspects of the case being brought against interception specialist Amesys (now Nexa Technologies) for "complicity in torture".

France
ChapsVision brings on cyberintelligence veteran

French mass data analysis firm ChapsVision has brought in Marc Chenu-Tournier as technical director of its inteilligence branch Flandrin Technologies.

Europe
France's Nexa acquires European interception specialist Trovicor

According to our sources, Nexa Technologies is putting the finishing touches to a deal to acquire the German legal interceptions firm Trovicor.