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Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of SpaceX and Starlink, Tesla, X and xAI will have a role in the upcoming second Trump administration, having been appointed to lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). -
BT has reportedly put its global division up for sale as part of the company’s ongoing attempts to shave costs
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Veon Group shareholders have expressed concern to the board about the company’s current strategy, citing the underperformance of its share price.
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Singtel has agreed to sell its stake in cybersecurity firm Trustwave for US$205 million.
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Since returning to telecoms in June 2020 as Ribbon Communication’s EVP and CFO, Miguel ‘Mick’ Lopez has had a lot to deal with. He talks to Saf Malik about how the company adapted and stabilised its operations during the pandemic.
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Cellnex Telecom is talking to Deutsche Telekom about taking over its tower business, the CEO confirmed at a meeting of investors and analysts.
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United Group has struck a deal to purchase Greek operator Wind Hellas from Crystal Almond Holdings for an undisclosed fee.
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Cloud service provider Civo has launched Civo Academy, a free, full Kubernetes learning programme.
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Latvian telco Tet has opened its sixth data centre in capital Riga, as it plans to grow its data centre business by 15% per year.
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British satellite operator Inmarsat is launching a "major upgrade" to its L-band services, which it said would offer faster speeds, and bring new opportunities in industrial IoT and maritime services.
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Satellite operators Telesat has secured C$1.44 billion in investment from the Canadian government, which it said represents a "major milestone" towards completing the financing of Telesat Lightspeed.
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Qlik has extended its cloud analytics platform with the acquisition of NodeGraph, a metadata management solution that will help drive Qlik's “explainable BI” effort - to achieve a “higher level of visibility and trust in data”, it said.
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NEXTDC has received planning permission for its 150MW hyperscale campus west of Melbourne.
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Sustainability isn't just about energy sources – cooling, site selection and heat recovery are also vital. David Craig, CEO of Iceotope, explains
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Deutsche Telekom has raised its profit outlook for the second time this year in is Q2 financial results.
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Edge computing infrastructure firm Ori Industries is partnering with streaming analytics specialist KX to provide an ultra-low latency streaming analytics solution for edge devices. It will leverage Tier 1 telco networks to get closer to application users.
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Cloud services provider Cloudreach has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services to aid its geographical expansion outside the US.
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NTT is claiming a world first with the launch of the first globally available private LTE/5G Network-as-a-Service platform.
