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Smartphone shipments have been declining in what has been a rough year for mobile handsets, and that’s meant even more pressure on an already-precarious sliver of the mobile market: feature…

KaiOS, the feature phone platform startup, raises a modest $3.4M to train its sights on growth in Africa

Samsung Venture, the investment arm of the South Korean technology giant, has invested $8.5 million in Indus OS and three other Indian startups as the company’s VC fund begins its…

Samsung backs Indus OS, three other startups in first investments for its VC arm in India

While Android and iOS have locked up the market for smartphone operating systems, a feature phone platform that has the distinction of being the world’s third biggest mobile OS is…

KaiOS raises $50M, hits 100M handsets powered by its feature phone OS

As the rate of smartphone sales continues to slow down and decline, a software startup called KaiOS — which launched in 2017 from the ashes of Mozilla’s failed Firefox OS…

KaiOS, now with 85M feature phones shipped, doubles down with Google, carrier deals and more

At MWC Barcelona, Google today made a few announcements around its Assistant. A lot of these center around support for KaiOS, the operating system for low-end feature phones that Google…

Google Assistant gets expanded language and device support