SoftBank to buy back $41 billion in assets to trim debt By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANKGOK (AP) — The Japanese technology and telecoms company SoftBank said Monday it plans to buy back up to 4.5 trillion yen ($41 billion) of its assets as it seeks to trim its gigantic debt burden. The company’s […]
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1.) Elon Musk said via Twitter TESLA factories are “working on ventilators” for a Potential shortage caused by coronavirus. On Thursday, Musk mentioned that plans for production were now underway and tweeted: “We’re working on ventilators, even though I think there will not be a shortage by the time we can make enough to matter.” […]
The Chinese wing of the GSMA, headed by Sihan Bo Chen (Head of Greater China GSMA) reported that “China has cemented its position as the global 5G leader as a result of significant operator investment and growing enthusiasm amongst consumers and enterprises,” for next generation services in China. We know from previous reports that this […]
Today, we are able to connect our phones in any country. Roaming facilities are rapidly evolving in terms of both infrastructure and price. As an example, if you live within the EU, you can travel around other EU countries and not be charged extra by your service provider. We now have more network coverage than […]
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development have released their latest statistics which show that nine of its member countries now have half of their broadband connections using fibre. This is up from six countries from the previous year. In total, the share of fibre in broadband connections covering the 37 countries increased to 27% […]
We have for some time, been able to listen to experience music anywhere we want. This could be at work, home or running along to your favorite tracks on the beach. Granted, 30 years ago you’d have had the weight and bulkiness of a Sony cassette Walkman, but today we live in the era of […]
Companies have started to enter the private cellular networking market, and not one of them is a telco. This should prompt telcos and operators that may currently be preoccupied with eMBB (enhanced Mobile Broadband) at the expense of enterprise and industrial use cases. Other players are now attempting to become the enterprises’ new partner, so […]
1. Justin Bieber and Jack Dorsey may be among the 10 million MGM hotel guests whose personal information was posted to a hacking forum. MGM said it discovered the data breach last summer and notified customers who were impacted based on state laws. 2. Google’s users in the UK will no longer be protected by […]
MATT O’BRIEN and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Did an artificial-intelligence system beat human doctors inwarning the world of a severe coronavirus outbreak in China? In a narrow sense, yes. But what the humans lacked in sheer speed, they more than made up in finesse. Early warnings of disease outbreaks can help people […]
1. Founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has suggested that big technology companies require more stringent regulation. In an open editorial released in the financial times, the technology giant’s leader indicated that the short term negative effect on profit may well be worth it in the future. 2. Nintendo could face limited supplies due […]