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T-Mobile has completed its acquisition of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) provider Lumos, forming a joint venture set to bring full-fibre broadband to homes across the US.
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A new era is underway at Intel as new CEO Lip-Bu Tan took to the stage at the company’s Vision 2025 event, delivering a candid and defiant keynote that laid bare the stark challenges ahead and his commitment to overcoming them.
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AMD has sealed its £4.9 billion ($6.3 billion) purchase of server maker ZT Systems to accelerate its AI and data centre solutions strategy.
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Vivendi has agreed to sell a 15% stake in Telecom Italia (TIM) to the Italian postal service provider, Poste Italiane, in a deal worth around €684 million.
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Singtel-owned technology services firm NCS is expanding its Asia Pacific footprint, launching a joint venture with Globe Telecom in the Philippines.
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Anthropic, the Amazon and Google-backed AI startup behind Claude is once again on the hunt for cash, with reports suggesting it could raise up to $2 billion.
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Microsoft has continued its global cloud and AI infrastructure investing efforts, unveiling plans to spend $3 billion in India.
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The Commerce Department has finalised Hemlock Semiconductor (HSC)’s $325 million direct funding award to build a new manufacturing facility in Hemlock, Michigan.
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Asia Pacific data centre operator Digital Edge has raised more than $1.6 billion to expand its services across the region.
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The US Department of Commerce has earmarked the location of the third flagship CHIPS for America research and development (R&D) facility and greenlit the creation of a virtual semiconductor manufacturing research centre.
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Microsoft plans to invest $80 billion to build AI-enabled data centres, Brad Smith, the company’s president has revealed.
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Technology waits for no one. The data centre crunch has long been predicted by analysts, but few expected it to happen so soon.
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Recent market statistics make sobering reading for telcos. Revenue share from voice has plummeted 80% in 10 years and data revenues have all but stagnated.
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A joint venture between investment firm Harrison Street and AREP’s PowerHouse Data Centers has sold ABX-1, a 265,580-square-foot data centre in Ashburn, Virginia.
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Low latency network solutions provider Avelacom is set to expand its network infrastructure with new Points of Presence to enhance interconnectivity between the US and Mexican financial markets
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Ofcom has launched a consultation to potentially lower annual licence fees (ALFs) for certain spectrum bands which could save operators millions of pounds.
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Indonesian mobile operators XL Axiata and Smartfren are set to merge as part of a deal worth 104 trillion Indonesian Rupiah (US$6.5 billion).
