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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Network connectivity provider FiberLight has completed its fibre expansion in the greater El Paso, Texas market, with a new point-of-presence through MDC's El Paso data centre.
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Valterra Partners and fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547 CSR) have partnered to acquire ColoHouse, the global data centre services firm headquartered in Miami, Florida.
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Alibaba Cloud says it will build its first data centre in the Philippines by the end of this year, to extend the reach of its services including elastic compute, databases, security, machine learning and data analytics.
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The confirmed $10 billion acquisition of QTS Realty Trust by Blackstone - the biggest data centre acquisition ever seen - means the annual value of data centre mergers and acquisitions is moving towards a new record in 2021.
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Australia's DCI Data Centers has been granted New Zealand Overseas Investment Office consent to purchase land for a major new data centre in Auckland, its first in the country.
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Nautilus Data Technologies is to build a $300 million data centre on land, and use the same recycled water technology it has developed to cool it.
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Cecilia Lundin, executive vice president, head of people experience & culture at Telia Company, has announced that she is to leave her role later this year.
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US-based managed service provider Thrive has kick-started its international expansion with the acquisition of UK network, cloud and data centre services firm ONI.
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France's IPLine has been acquired by Belgium-headquartered Destiny, which is gaining six data centres into the bargain.
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Continuing our look at back at previous Global Carrier Awards winners, we move onto Nordic data centre provider, DigiPlex.
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Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has formed a new joint venture with funds affiliated with Blackstone Real Estate to invest in data centres.
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Tencent Cloud has opened four new data centres in Bangkok, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
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