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Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Dojo secures $210M funding from Vitruvian Partners
What happened: Dojo secures significant funding from Vitruvian Partners UK paytech Dojo has successfully secured £190 million in funding from Vitruvian Partners to bolster its growth and expand its payment solutions. This significant investment will help Dojo enhance its…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Trump Media bets big on bitcoin with $2.5B investment
Trump Media plans to diversify revenue by holding bitcoin Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind the Truth Social platform, announced plans to raise approximately $2.5 billion to invest in bitcoin. The funding will be sourced through $1.5 billion in stock sales and…
Global Datacenter Trends
Bain Capital targets EMEA hyperscale growth with hscale launch
What happened: Bain Capital expands data centre footprint with hscale launch Bain Capital has launched hscale, a dedicated hyperscale data centre platform targeting the EMEA region. This move follows Bain’s 2024 acquisition of an 80% stake in AQ Compute, a European data centre…
Global Institutional Trends
Monarch secures $75M in Series B funding
Monarch raises $75 million in Series B funding led by ICONIQ Growth to expand its personal finance app offerings.
Global Institutional Trends
New AI-first financial startup launched by Circle co-founder Sean Neville
What happened: Catena Labs emerges from stealth with $18M to disrupt financial services Sean Neville, co-founder of Circle, has officially launched Catena Labs, a fintech startup aiming to create the first AI-native, fully regulated financial institution. The company, which…
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
OpenAI acquires Jony Ive’s IO to pioneer AI hardware
What happened: OpenAI’s bold move into AI-native devices OpenAI has finalised a $6.5B all-stock acquisition of IO, a hardware-focused AI start-up founded by Jony Ive, the legendary designer behind Apple’s iPhone and iMac. The acquisition marks OpenAI’s most ambitious expansion…
Global Datacenter Trends
Duos edge AI to launch new data centre in Victoria, TX
Duos Edge AI partners with Region 3 ESC to launch an Edge Data Centre in Victoria, Texas, enhancing rural digital access.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Raoul du Plessis appointed SVP at AtlasEdge
AtlasEdge appoints Raoul du Plessis as SVP of business operations to drive innovation, growth, and market expansion.
Global National Telecom Trends
SK Telecom breach exposes years-long malware infiltration
What happened: SK Telecom outlines breach response and security upgrades SK Telecom has revealed that a persistent and sophisticated malware strain infiltrated its internal systems in 2022—almost two years before its discovery in April 2025. The breach exposed sensitive personal…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Juniper and ServiceNow launch AI automation
What happened: Juniper and ServiceNow integrate platforms Juniper Networks and ServiceNow have expanded their partnership to deliver an integrated solution combining Juniper’s AI-native networking platform, Mist™, with ServiceNow’s Telecom Service Management, Inventory, and Sales…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
SK Telecom cyberattack exposes millions to SIM cloning risks
Massive data breach triggers SIM card crisis On 18 April 2025, SK Telecom, South Korea’s leading mobile network operator, detected a cyberattack that compromised sensitive Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) data of approximately 25 million users, including those on…
Global Institutional Trends
Salesforce to acquire Convergence.ai
What happened: Salesforce signs agreement to acquire Convergence.ai On May 15, 2025, Salesforce announced a definitive agreement to acquire Convergence.ai, a London-based AI agent technology company. Convergence.ai specialises in developing advanced AI systems capable of…
North America Regional ISP Trends
CoreSite upgrades IP routing with Nokia across U.S. data centres
What happened: CoreSite enhances network infrastructure with Nokia’s IP routing solutions CoreSite, a U.S.-based tower company, has partnered with Nokia to enhance its network infrastructure by deploying advanced core and edge IP routing solutions across its 30 data centres. This…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
NTT expands data centre network with $10B Investment
What happened: NTT expands global data centre footprint with $10 billion investment NTT has announced a major expansion of its global data centre division, acquiring land across North America, Europe, and Asia over the past six months. This expansion is part of its previously…
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Cyber clash: India-Pakistan tensions escalate online
Cyberattacks target India’s infrastructure amid India-Pakistan tensions, driven by hacktivists and raising cybersecurity concerns.
Global Institutional Trends
BlackRock flags quantum computing as risk in Bitcoin ETF filing
What happened title: BlackRock highlights quantum computing as potential threat to Bitcoin ETFs BlackRock updated the registration statement for its iShares Bitcoin ETF (IBIT), explicitly citing quantum computing as a potential risk to the security of Bitcoin and other blockchain…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
SK apologises for data breach at SK Telecom
SK chairman apologises after malware breach at SK Telecom exposes data of 23M users, promises security overhaul.
Global Cloud Services Trends
ESNOG-33 set for May 2025 in Madrid
What happened: ESNOG-33 to be held in Madrid this May The España Network Operators Group (ESNOG) has officially announced the date and venue for its 33rd meeting, ESNOG-33. The event will take place on May 22–23, 2025, at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. The meeting aims to…
Global Datacenter Trends
Yondr and CBRE launch apprenticeship scheme
Yondr and CBRE launch global apprenticeship to train future data centre professionals at Slough and beyond.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Lumen and IBM target enterprise AI growth with edge partnership
Lumen and IBM partner to deliver AI at the edge, enabling real-time enterprise analytics through watsonx and Lumen’s edge infrastructure.