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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.
Forthcoming events
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The Norwegian government has updated its strategy for all data centres across the country, to include new measures on sustainable growth and job creation.
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Data centre build-to-suit firm Global Technical Realty (GTR) is building a new 10.5MW data centre in Petah Tikva, Israel.
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Aligned is expanding its presence in the Salt Lake City metro market area with the development of its third build-to-suit data centre campus.
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Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries is said to be weighing up making a bid for T-Mobile Netherlands, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG’s Netherlands.
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Eloise Walker and Catherine Robins from Pinsent Masons, explain how changes to the international tax system will affect telecoms and tech multinationals.
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Interxion has taken a 20-year lease on an extra 129,000 sq ft of space at the site of its Düsseldorf, Germany data centre.
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Nautilus Data Technologies is raising $50 million to aid its data centre growth on land and water.
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US data centre services firm Flexential has entered into a second facility sale-leaseback agreement with Legacy Investing and Invesco Real Estate.
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Developers and businesses can now build and deploy applications at the edge of Verizon’s wireless network in three new US locations - Chicago, Houston and Phoenix.
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Swisscom saw operating income increase 4.9% year over year in the most recent quarter, while net income jumped 42.1% year on year thanks to recent investment and divestment activity.
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Technology entrepreneur Thomas Hogue is acquiring data centre services firm Netrepid, which operates a single data centre in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US.
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German IT service provider DATEV has bought a data centre it uses from colocation and digital services firm q.beyond AG.
