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North America Regional ISP Trends
T-Mobile and EQT to acquire Lumos to meet demand for fibre
The fibre-to-the-home platform Lumos will be purchased by T-Mobile and EQT through a joint venture (JV) with EQT’s Infrastructure VI fund, which will take over from EQT’s previous fund, EQT Infrastructure III. Through the JV, EQT’s fibre infrastructure investment experience and…
Global Cloud Services Trends
IBM to acquire Hashicorp for $6.4B to move deeper into cloud
International Business Machines (IBM) agreed to buy cloud software company HashiCorp in a deal with an enterprise value of $6.4 billion, extending the tech company’s push into cloud and artificial intelligence as those offerings drive growth. Details about the deal IBM plans to…
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
China acquired banned Nvidia chips in Super Micro, Dell servers
Chinese universities and research institutions have recently obtained high-end Nvidia chips that were banned from being sold to China by US.
Global Institutional Trends
Apple announces event on May 7 possibly to launch new iPads
Apple’s May 7 event is anticipated to reveal updated iPad Pro and iPad Air models, aiming to revitalise declining sales.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
IBM nears completion of strategic acquisition of HashiCorp
IBM's HashiCorp acquisition moved from a pending strategic transaction to effective control in February 2025. The critical shift was not only the $6.4 billion price tag; it was IBM taking ownership of Terraform, Vault and the wider infrastructure automation portfolio at the…
Global Institutional Trends
How AI can help achieve partnership goals
AI-related products, such as data analytics platforms, predictive modelling and CRM systems, can efficiently facilitate collaboration.
North America Cloud Services Trends
Sam Bankman-Fried sentencing closes a major FTX fraud chapter
Samuel Bankman-Fried's 25-year sentence makes the FTX case a benchmark for crypto custody, related-party trading controls, and investor restitution.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Panasonic and Jasmy, IoT developer, launched Web3 platform
The tech firm Panasonic and IoT developer Jasmy cooperatively launched a Web3 platform to connect personal data on the Internet of Things (IoT), which will be built upon the Personal Data Locker product developed by Jasmy. About the new web3 platform Jasmy, an IoT platform…
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Paytm plans to raise $2.2 billion through IPO for investment
Indian digital payments start-up Paytm intends to raise up to 166 billion rupees ($2.22 billion) through an initial public offering (IPO). It planned to invest the money raised from the IPO in new ventures, partnerships, and acquisitions, as well as expand and fortify its…
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Huawei teases launch of new high-end P series smartphones
Huawei stirs anticipation with customer registration for an undisclosed high-end P series smartphone, following Mate 60’s success.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
El Salvador’s tokenised hotel project: a new frontier in investment chances
Investors will need to make a minimum $1,000 investment to purchase the token, which will be issued on the Bitcoin layer 2 “Liquid Network” under the ticker HILSV. Bitfinex Securities spearheads tokenisation of Hilton hotel The investors are seizing the unprecedented opportunity…
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
FloQast secures $100m Series E funding, valued at $1.6bn
California’s FloQast closes Series E round at $100m, reaching $1.6bn valuation. ICONIQ Growth spearheads investment for AI-driven finance solutions. AI platform Writer launches feature for text generation from images FloQast’s series E funding round FloQast, a California-based…
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
SecureBrain merger gives Hitachi Systems a larger cybersecurity bench
Hitachi Systems completed its SecureBrain merger on April 1, 2024, folding a cybersecurity subsidiary known for PhishWall and GRED into a broader managed security push.
Global Institutional Trends
OpenAI and Meta to launch AI models with ‘reasoning’ capabilities
OpenAI and Meta announce forthcoming AI model updates, emphasising enhanced reasoning and planning abilities, crucial for AGI advancement.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
China EV company Li Auto says its lower-priced Li L6 to be launched ‘soon’
The Li L6, a luxury mid-to-large-size five-seat SUV designed for young families, will “soon be launched”, Li Auto said on Weibo to maintain the strong sales performance of the past year. Something new about Li L6 From the exposed configuration table, the Ideal L6 is equipped with…
Global Institutional Trends
FixedFloat suffers second crypto breach, $2.8M lost
The cryptocurrency exchange FixedFloat has fallen victim to a second security breach, resulting in a loss of $2.8 million. Another blow to the crypto world FixedFloat’s incident, detected on April 2, involved the transfer of various digital assets, including ETH, USDT, WETH, DAI…
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
FlexM and 6G Digital: revolutionising banking through strategic partnership
6G Digital Private has entered a significant partnership by acquiring a 25% stake in FlexM Global, a trailblazing FinTech firm based in Singapore, for an impressive sum of $12.5m, according to a report from IBS Intelligence. The digital bank realm is facing an innovative era In…
North America National Telecom Trends
AT&T admitted that a data breach affected 73 million active and returning subscribers
AT&T's March 2024 disclosure is a telecom customer-account exposure case, not a generic breach-count headline. The company said a data set released on the dark web appeared to be from 2019 or earlier and affected about 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former…
North America Cloud Services Trends
US and UK announce partnership on science of AI safety
The U.S. and UK signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Monday, which will see them work together to develop tests for the most advanced AI models, following through on commitments made at the AI Safety Summit last November. The new partnership Following commitments…
Global Institutional Trends
Google and Stanford researchers launch AI fact-checking tool
Google DeepMind and Stanford University’s SAFE enhance AI chatbots’ responses by fact-checking with 76% accuracy.