Credit rating giant TransUnion plans to acquire digital identity verification company Neustar for $3.1B in cash
Todd Spangler / Variety : Source: Neustar .
GoDaddy is acquiring Neustar's domain name registry services business and renaming it GoDaddy Registry; Neustar has about 12M domains
Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire :
Ad tech firm Neustar bought for $1.83B by private investment group led by Golden Gate Capital, pending shareholder approval
Associated Press :
Ad tech company Neustar to buy marketing analytics firm MarketShare for $450M
Allison Schiff / AdExchanger :
Twitter testing new quality filter that removes threats and offensive/abusive content from timelines; currently available for verified users only
Neustar brings in big guns ahead of FCC vote — FCC budget under the microscope Rhiannon Williams / Telegraph : Twitter's new quality filter removes abuse from your timeline Lance Whitney / CNET : Twit...
Neustar, slated to lose federal number-portability contract to Telecordia, claims bid did not include sufficient security requirements
Neustar's lobbying for key number-portability contract gets boost from Michael Chertoff — Neustar's lobbying effort to stop a key federal number-portability contract …
How ISPs rely on “trusted third-parties” like Neustar to hand over customer records for court orders, including highly secretive FISA warrants
Meet the shadowy tech brokers that deliver your data to the NSA — Summary: These so-called “trusted third-parties” …
The Most Important Tech Company You've Never Heard Of
Information about every cell phone in the country is in a Neustar database. Which is why it's kind of weird that 400 or so companies trust them to deal with law enforcement surveillance requests. — ...