Financial
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A law firm has launched an investigation into whether board members of Frontier Communications may have breached their fiduciary duties in connection with the proposed merger with Verizon. -
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).
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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.
Forthcoming events
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Global connectivity services firm Hurricane Electric has deployed a new point-of-presence at Internet Port Hamburg (IPHH), its second PoP in the northern German city.
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Nominations are now open for Capacity's top 20 ICT investors list 2021.
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Highlights from the 2021 show floor as industry returns to live conferences
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Yahsat is likely to price its IPO at AED 2.55 to AED 3.05 per share (US$0.69 to $0.83), raising up to US$810 million.
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Google has been given outline planning permission for a new data centre in Horndal, Sweden - providing it does its bit for the environment.
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Iron Mountain has sold five London facilities to Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), raising $178 million under a sale-leaseback transaction.
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ATC Europe's new shareholder; Etisalat's commercial mmWave 5G plans; and OneWeb's crucial launch
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Macquarie Capital has formed a strategic partnership with and made an equity investment in Prime Data Centers, with the two now planning a $5 billion expansion drive in acquiring and developing additional data centres.
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Intel has broken up its data centre unit and appointed new heads to help the firm fight off the increasing challenge it faces in the data centre segment from the likes of AMD, Arm and Nvidia.
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Magticom has published an open letter to Georgia's national regulator claiming it included "ill-founded and downright false information" in its 2020 annual report.
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Today, BT is due to face the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) over a lawsuit being brought against them for reportedly overcharging its customers.
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Cloud networking firm Extreme Networks has added a new regional data centre (RDC) in London, enabling customers to run its native cloud management platform ExtremeCloud IQ on Microsoft Azure.
