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Latest intelligence on infrastructure operators, policy decisions, market moves, and digital power shifts.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services
IBN Tech’s rise and the digital autonomy debate
IBN’s expansion highlights how outsourced digital services can challenge local control of critical infrastructure.
Global Cloud Services
Sneaker Server: Niche hosting for high-performance bot operations
Sneaker Server’s global hosting delivers low-latency servers tailored for automated retail bots and time-critical online purchasing.
Africa Cloud Services
Starlink to lower satellite orbits in 2026 to enhance space safety
Starlink plans to lower thousands of satellites to about 480 km in 2026 to improve space safety and reduce collision risk.
Companies
Samsung Electronics touts HBM4 progress as memory market competition intensifies
Samsung Electronics reports progress on HBM4 memory chips as competition in the high-bandwidth memory market intensifies in 2026.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
China presses Netherlands over Nexperia chip dispute
China urges the Netherlands to correct its actions on Nexperia, saying Dutch intervention has disrupted the global semiconductor supply chain.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services
China’s Biren raises $717M in Hong Kong AI chip IPO
Chinese AI chip designer Biren completes a $717m Hong Kong listing, highlighting strong interest in domestic semiconductor innovation.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services
India’s broadband subscriber base surpasses 1B, Marking decade of digital expansion
India’s broadband subscriber base crossed 1 billion in November 2025, reflecting rapid expansion of digital connectivity nationwide.
Global Cloud Services
How IP leasing quietly reshapes the economics of the Internet
IPv4 leasing is not innovation but adaptation, revealing how scarcity reshapes incentives in the Internet’s core systems.
Africa Institutional
Bottom-up power is essential in ICP-2 revision, insists Lu Heng
Lu Heng explains why ICP-2 revision must preserve bottom-up governance to ensure RIR accountability and resist centralised control.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services
US grants Samsung and SK hynix licences to ship chipmaking tools to China for 2026
US grants annual licences for Samsung and SK Hynix to ship chipmaking tools to China for 2026 under new export control regime.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services
Regional technology autonomy under pressure: A closer look through IAGU networks
Regional IT firms such as IAGU face growing pressure from global technology forces, raising concerns over digital autonomy and local reform.
Global Cloud Services
Recruiting challenges and regional autonomy: How external forces shape i7 LLC’s strategic role
As labour markets globalise, i7 LLC highlights the pressure on regional autonomy and the growing case for reform in recruitment systems.
Asia-Pacific Institutional
IP is Capital: Why ISPs are missing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
IPv4 scarcity has turned IP addresses into capital assets, yet many ISPs still undervalue them amid policy and IPv6 uncertainty.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services
Potanin’s catalytic people takes 25% stake in selectel cloud provider
Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin’s Catalytic People buys 25 % of Selectel as Russia pushes domestic cloud and AI development.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Coupang pledges $1.18 billion in vouchers after massive South Korean data breach
South Korea’s Coupang to compensate 33.7 million users with vouchers after data breach, facing criticism for inadequate restitution measures
Global Institutional
Internet governance debate: Why registries must not become enforcers
A new governance debate highlights concerns that giving registries enforcement powers may threaten neutrality and global internet stability.
Asia-Pacific Institutional
What does ‘IP is capital’ really mean for internet addressing?
Organisations treat IP addresses as strategic assets, managing IPv4 and IPv6 to prevent conflicts and outages across networks.
Companies
Coupang founder apologises over data leak, pledges compensation
Coupang’s founder Kim Bom apologises after a data breach exposed customer information and pledges compensation and stronger security.
Leaders
Louis Gerstner, former IBM chief who reshaped Big Blue, dies aged 83
Former IBM CEO Louis Gerstner has died aged 83, reopening debate about his impact on Big Blue’s long term strategy.
Africa Institutional
China drafts rules to rein in AI with human-like interaction
New draft regulations show how China plans to govern AI that mimics human interaction, raising compliance questions for developers.