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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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Amazon Web Services has announced the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Dallas and Philadelphia to serve the growing edge connectivity market.
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A double winner back in 2020, it was Sparkle’s projects across the Middle East and Africa, as well as the Americas, that saw it take home the trophies.
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Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) has reported strong Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) results, with its cash revenue grew by 6.6% to $271.2 million year-on-year (YoY).
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In this episode of the Digital Digest we roundup the biggest stories of the week from the latest on DigitalBridge's EdgePoint to the dawn of quantum computing as-a-service.
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Raxio Group is continuing its pan-African expansion by announcing its next carrier neutral data centre investment in Mozambique.
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Vantage Data Centers has broken ground on both its Berlin and Warsaw campuses, which are part of its ongoing $2 billion European expansion programme.
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Narendra Modi, India’s Prime Minister has completed a complete reshuffle of his cabinet seeing 36 new ministers appointed.
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Cloud data management and security services vendor Acronis has appointed hosting industry veteran Patrick Pulvermueller as its new CEO.
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Nordics data centre operator DigiPlex has been acquired by US investment firm IPI Partners for an undisclosed sum.
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Russia's mobile operator MTS has acquired the GreenBush data centre in Moscow, which was opened in 2018 as part of a first phase development.
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IXcellerate in Russia has appointed Andrei Aksenov as its new chief executive officer.
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Adaire Fox-Martin has been appointed EMEA cloud president at Google Cloud.
