Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other officials pressed the White House on Thursday to support efforts to preserve internet service to antigovernment protesters in Cuba, even advocating the use of giant balloons as floating Wi-Fi hotspots to allow images of dissent to stream unabated from the authoritarian nation. Cuban authorities blocked social media sites in […]
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With the help of a fundraising initiative by SoftBank and Tiger Global Management, Revolut is now valued at $33 billion. The London-based digital banking startup has officially been labeled as the UK’s most valuable private fintech unicorn. The fundraiser raised $800 million, which will be used to develop new products and stretch out its operations in international markets such as the United States and India. Founded in 2015, […]
Ericson reported on Tuesday a grow in its organic sales of eight percent of its market value as Geopolitical tensions grow between the Swedish company and the world’s second largest economy, following the company’s warning of its deteriorating market share in China. The telecoms vendor – one of Huawei’s biggest competitors – announced that both […]
Over the next five years, the UAE will witness a digital transformation to its economy as the country launched The National Program for Coders on Saturday. The initiative offers golden visas to 100,000 coders, as well as code training with tech giants. The UAE is going the extra mile to attract the best coders from around the globe, while offering them with the basis needed to develop innovative tech ideas. IT specialists and […]
E-commerce titan Amazon payed Facebook an undisclosed fee as part of its latest acquisition, terminating Facebook’s efforts to deliver internet connectivity. Amazon acquiring Facebook’s employees initiates the beginning of its plan to provide internet connectivity from low Earth orbit satellites, The Information reports. Back in April, Facebook’s team was added to Amazon’s 500-person group which […]
North Macedonia’s Agency for Electronic Communications (AEK) announced earlier this week that it has obtained four bids from telcos that aim to participate in a planned auction for the allocation of 5G frequencies. Makedonski Telekom, A1 Makedonija, and Bitstream Mobile have expressed interest in licenses for national coverage in the 700 MHz and the 3 GHz spectrums. Neotel’s expression of interest concerns licenses for regional coverage in the 3 GHz […]
The State Department will offer rewards up to $10 million for information leading to the identification of anyone engaged in foreign state-sanctioned malicious cyber activity, including ransomware attacks, against critical U.S. infrastructure. A task force set up by the White House will coordinate efforts to stem the ransomware scourge. The Biden administration is also out […]
Microsoft along with technology human rights group Citizen Lab said on Thursday that an Israeli private firm named Candiru sold hacking tools that controls Microsoft Windows. The hackers created and sold a software than can penetrate Windows. This new growing business aim to find flows in common software platforms for their clients, according to a report by Citizen Lab. The clients […]
UAE-based telco Etisalat partnered up on Wednesday with Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson through a global 5G program that is designed to help communications service providers (CSPs) accelerate 5G commercialization and monetization. Ericsson’s program seeks to foster innovation around 5G technologies between startups and Etisalat to mutually create new business opportunities in the market. Through this collaboration, Etisalat will receive a list of companies that develop services, devices, and applications […]
Instagram head Adam Mosseri acknowledged on Thursday that his platform had indeed mistakenly overlooked racists comments made on the site toward England’s black football players such as Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford, and Jadon Sancho. Instagram head Adam Mosseri quickly issued a statement to clarify the matter. “We have technology to try and prioritize reports and we were […]