Financial

Vodafone has quietly spent the first half of April buying back tens of millions of its own shares in a sustained campaign that began just days after disclosing its total voting rights to the market.

As fibre investment moves beyond its early boom, what comes next?

BT’s sale of its Irish wholesale and enterprise arm to Cordiant Digital Infrastructure’s Speed Fibre Group is one step closer to completion, following approval from Ireland’s competition watchdog.

Intel has agreed to sell a majority stake in Altera, its programmable logic device unit, to Silver Lake in a deal worth $8.75 billion.

“People are investing ahead of the demand,” warned Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai, speaking about the current wave of data centre build-outs. As a billionaire investor and Jack Ma’s long-time right-hand man, Tsai knows a thing or two about spotting froth in the market. His view on the sector’s rapid growth? “I start to see the beginning of some kind of bubble.”

The EU is set to unveil an ambitious, multi-pronged blueprint it believes will help guide the bloc to become a global AI leader.