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Tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Meta are bracing for heightened scrutiny in the UK as the new digital markets competition regime takes effect. -
IQ Fiber acquired ThinkBig Networks for an undisclosed sum.
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The UK’s competition watchdog has launched a probe into IBM’s prospective acquisition of software firm HashiCorp.
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POET Technologies, which designs and develops photonic hardware for data centres, AI and telecom workloads, has completed its acquisition of Chinese photonics firm Super Photonics Integrated Circuit Xiamen Co (SPX).
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Swisscom kicked off 2025 by celebrating the early completion of its Vodafone Italia acquisition after receiving the outstanding green lights from regulators.
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Atos has revealed the French state is in talks to acquire the company’s Advanced Computing business in a deal that could be worth up to €625 million (US$656 million).
Forthcoming events
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The value of data centre M&A deals that closed in the first eleven months of 2020 exceeded $30 billion, according to the latest data from Synergy Research Group.
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Cisco has entered an agreement to acquire cloud communications software and services provider IMImobile, for approximately $730 million.
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Cloud-enabled security solutions provider Barracuda has acquired Fyde, a ZTNA provider based in Palo Alto, California, and Porto, Portugal to expand the Barracuda CloudGen SASE platform with ZTNA capabilities.
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Australian telco Telstra (TLS.AX) is to split its business into three units, according to reports from Reuters.
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Huawei is to spin off its Honor smartphone brand in a US$15.2 billion deal, paving the way for an IPO by 2023.
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Liberty Latin America has completed its acquisition of AT&T’s wireless and wireline operations in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
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The government of Ghana is to buy AirtelTigo as approved by the board of parent company Bharti Airtel yesterday.
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Iliad has won EU antitrust clearance for its acquisition of Polish mobile group Play.
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The US-based data infrastructure investor, GI Partners, has signed an agreement to acquire Vast Broadband.
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Spanish towers business Axion is to change hands for the fourth time in a decade, this time for €200 million.
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French telecoms provider Iliad SA is to purchase Polish mobile group Play in a multi-billion-euro deal that will see Iliad become Europe’s sixth largest mobile operator.
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Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) is looking to spend up to US$267 million to acquire a data centre and office in Virginia, USA.
