Axon Enterprise (Nasdaq: AXON), the dominant US provider of police body cameras and Tasers serving over 18,000 law enforcement agencies, entered a definitive agreement to acquire Carbyne for $625 million in an all-cash transaction expected to close in Q1 2026. The acquisition consolidates …
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South Central Inter-County Phone Network (SCIPNet)—a four-county Pennsylvania consortium comprising Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, and Franklin counties—successfully deployed Carbyne APEX cloud-native emergency call-handling platform in September 2024, becoming the first Next Generation 911 system in …
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Metro Emergency Communications in Utah County went live with Carbyne’s Universe platform on August 28, 2023, deploying AI-powered emergency response technology across Provo, Orem, and Lindon that provides 911 call takers with precise GPS location data, live video streaming from caller …
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The US Commerce Department adds surveillance technology vendors Intellexa and Cytrox to the Entity List for “trafficking in cyber exploits used to gain access to information systems, threatening the privacy and security of individuals and organizations worldwide.” Specific entities …
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AT&T announced a strategic partnership with Carbyne enabling the telecommunications giant to resell Carbyne’s comprehensive 911 surveillance platform to public safety agencies nationwide, dramatically accelerating deployment of Israeli Unit 8200-developed technology across US emergency …
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Rio Grande Council of Governments (RGCOG) in Texas launched the United States’ first i3-compliant cloud-native 911 contact center using Carbyne’s APEX platform, deploying across five Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) serving Alpine, Brewster, Presidio, Culberson, and Hudspeth …
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Frontier Services Group announced plans to build a training facility in Xinjiang province, the western Chinese region where as many as 1 million Uyghur Muslims had been placed in extrajudicial detention camps under comprehensive surveillance. FSG’s Chinese website posted a statement saying the …
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Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund led a $15 million Series B investment in Carbyne (formerly Reporty Homeland Security), the Israeli surveillance technology company founded by Unit 8200 intelligence veterans and previously funded by Jeffrey Epstein and Ehud Barak. The investment directly connected …
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Fayette County, Georgia approved a $192,000 expenditure to become the first 911 system in the United States to deploy Carbyne’s IP-based emergency communication platform with comprehensive surveillance capabilities. After piloting the system from August through December 2017, Fayette County …
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DarkMatter, the UAE-based private intelligence company employing former U.S. intelligence operatives, signed a Global Strategic Memorandum of Understanding with Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei for “Big Data” systems and “Smart City” surveillance solutions. The …
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Jeffrey Epstein and Ehud Barak jointly invested in Carbyne (initially Reporty Homeland Security), a sophisticated surveillance technology company co-founded by Unit 8200 veterans Lital Leshem, Amir Elichai, and Alex Dizengof. Barak invested $1.5 million through a limited partnership company called …
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Erik Prince founded Frontier Services Group (FSG), a Hong Kong-listed security, logistics and insurance company backed by Chinese state capital. Prince was introduced to Chang Zhenming, chairman of China’s state-owned CITIC investment conglomerate, in 2013, providing Prince entry to the …
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NSO Group Technologies is founded in Israel by three former members of Unit 8200 (Israel’s signals intelligence unit): Niv Karmi, Omri Lavie, and Shalev Hulio. The company name “NSO” is derived from the first names of the three founders. Niv Karmi departs the company just one month …
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In February 2003, just weeks before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, In-Q-Tel made a strategic investment in Keyhole, Inc., a struggling California startup that had developed EarthViewer, a groundbreaking 3D earth visualization system. The investment, made using funding from the National Imagery and …
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