North America
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Social media app TikTok has said it will fight an order by the Canadian government to cease operations in the country over national security concerns. -
Donald J. Trump has secured a returned to the White House to become the 47th US President.
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Workflow automation platform Flowfinity has made upgrades to its data centre sites to expand its capacity to meet increased customer demands.
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Elon Musk has announced that xAI, his AI startup rivalling OpenAI, plans to double the size of its Colossus supercomputer cluster, which currently consists of 100,000 Nvidia GPUs.
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Semiconductor manufacturer Wolfspeed is the latest chipmaker to receive funding under the US CHIPS and Science Act, receiving up to $750 million to build a new silicon carbide wafer manufacturing site in North Carolina.
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Crusoe, the crypto miners turned clean energy AI infrastructure operator, has launched a $3.4 billion joint venture with Blue Owl Capital and Primary Digital Infrastructure to build data centres in Texas.
Forthcoming events
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Netrality Data Centers has acquired the strategic Indy Telcom Center carrier hotel in Indianapolis.
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Cox Business confirms the launch of its new Internet continuity service, Cox Business Net Assurance.
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Cox Communications CEO Patrick J. Esser is to retire at the end of this year and will be succeeded by executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer Mark Greatrex, who is to take the reins as president.
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Dish has partnered with AT&T to serve its MVNO customers, signing a long-term strategic network services agreement (NSA).
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Frontier Communications has announced plans to expand its full fibre network in Connecticut.
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SES Government Solutions (SES GS), a subsidiary of SES, has been awarded a contract of $14.5 million to support Thule Air Base in Greenland with its critical communications.
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The Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA) has announced that Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia PLC has been issued with a final licence. However, over half of the winning consortium's financing could be in doubt due to US sanctions.
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Ericsson reported group organic sales growth of 8% year on year in its latest quarterly results.
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Today the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry accounts for more than 2% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to the European Commission in 2020.
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The former EVP of Veritas Technologies, Phil Brace, starts a new role in less than two weeks as president and CEO of Sierra Wireless.
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Any US operator with up to 10 million customers that bought Huawei or ZTE kit before the end of June 2020 is eligible for compensation to replace it.
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Demonstrating even more ways that telcos can monetise and capitalise on their 5G networks, Verizon Business has collaborated with Mastercard to explore new technology for global payments and commerce.
