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Workz recognised as world leader in IoT

Dubai company identified as market leader in eSIM and telecom cards. Workz Group has been declared as one of the world’s leading providers in the mobile IoT sector according to several new industry reports. The acknowledgements include Counterpoint Research who ranked the Dubai-based company as one of the top five leaders in eSIM, and the […]

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos may step down without stepping away

Even after stepping aside as CEO, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will likely keep identifying new frontiers for the world’s dominant e-commerce company. His successor, meanwhile, gets to deal with escalating efforts to curtail Amazon’s power. Tuesday’s announcement that Bezos will hand off the CEO job this summer came as a surprise. But it doesn’t mean […]

GameStop's stupefying stock rise doesn't hide its reality

Behind GameStop’s stock surge is the grim reality of its prospects: The video game retailer is floundering even as the industry around it is booming. GameStop has been swept up in a battle between big-moneyed hedge funds betting against it and small investors trying to prop it up. That has caused GameStop’s share price to […]

Ethiopia extends telco license bidding deadline till April 2021

The Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA) announced on Tuesday that is has delayed the issuing of two new nationwide operating licenses. ECA made the announcement via Twitter confirming that the decision was taken to delay the process following requests received from would-be bidders during the question-and-answer period of the request for proposals (RFP) process for the […]

Microsoft backs Australian plan to make Google pay for news

Microsoft said on Wednesday it supports Australia’s plans to make the biggest digital platforms pay for news and would help small businesses transfer their advertising to Bing if Google quits the country. Microsoft has been positioning itself to increase market share for its search engine Bing after a Google executive told a Senate hearing last […]

Robinhood raises $3.4B from investors amid surge in trading

Popular online trading platform Robinhood said Monday that it has lined up $3.4 billion to help meet its funding requirements amid a spike in trading on Wall Street fueled by small investors driving up shares in GameStop and other stocks. The funds are being provided by Ribbit Capital and several other venture capital firms, including […]

O2, NEC complete OpenRAN trial

British O2 telecoms and Japanese NEC announced on Monday a successful OpenRAN trial conducted on O2’s network with NEC and its ecosystem of partners. According to a joint statement, NEC helped to define a customized OpenRAN architecture, optimized, and adapted to the requirements of the O2 mobile network. NEC coordinated the overall design of the […]

Google shutters internal Stadia game studio

Google is closing the internal studio tasked with developing games for its Stadia cloud-gaming service, a move that raises questions about the future of the Stadia service itself. Google launched Stadia in November 2019 as a new type of video-game platform that operates without a console and that stores game-playing sessions in the cloud. It […]

Australian prime minister says Bing could replace Google

The Australian prime minister said on Monday that Microsoft was confident that it could fill the void if Google carried out its threat to remove its search engine from Australia. A Google executive told a Senate hearing last month that it would likely make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government went ahead […]

Orange, Free Mobile network sharing deal falters

French telecoms giant Orange announced late last week that it would be ending discussions with Free Mobile with regards to setting up a mobile network sharing agreement, citing a divergence in deployment strategy. “Given a divergence in deployment strategy, Orange has decided to end these discussions. For Orange, the quality of its networks is a […]