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Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk
The latest Market Talks covering Technology, Media and Telecom. Published exclusively on Dow Jones Newswires at 4:20 ET, 12:20 ET and 16:50 ET. 0654 GMT – Demand from artificial-intelligence servers is expected to continue to support NAND…
LG AI Research, SK Telecom, Upstage survive next cut in national AI model project
The government has narrowed its state-backed project to develop a domestic artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model to three teams led by LG AI Research, SK Telecom and Upstage, eliminating startup Motif Technologies despite its strong showing…
How Cellphones Solved A Problem The Power Grid Still Faces
There was a time when no one could imagine a telephone that wasn't tethered to the wall. Then wireless arrived, and within a decade telecom turned upside down. Electricity is fast approaching its own paradigm shift. Residential rates are climbing…
Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine
The Supreme Court today rejected Verizon's attempt to get a $47 million refund from the Federal Communications Commission. In a list of orders issued by the court, Verizon's petition was denied without explanation. The denial apparently ends any…
Sandisk: Perhaps The Old Rules Are Actually Out (NASDAQ:SNDK)
Sandisk Corporation is initiated with a Strong Buy rating, driven by transformational contracts and robust execution. Q4 2026 revenue surged 372% to $8.97B, with gross margin expanding to 84.6% and net income reaching $6.90B. NBM contracts…
Disney-owned ABC files First Amendment lawsuit against FCC
Disney-owned ABC has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the FCC. The lawsuit comes after the FCC began an early broadcast license renewal process tied to Disney's DEI practices. In the lawsuit, ABC is calling for the FCC to halt its early…
IBM Consulting joins GSMA Open Gateway API initiative | Computer Weekly
IBM Consulting has joined the GSMA Open Gateway initiative, reinforcing the growing commercial ecosystem behind Camara -standardised network application programming interfaces (APIs), Launched in 2023, the GSMA Open Gateway is designed to help…
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The dumb phone trend and why Christopher Nolan & Ed Sheeran are on it
Around the time when phones were losing more and more keys, India was entering the smartphone era. Equipped with screens that respond to touch, better cameras, email, social media, and the internet of things, smartphones can essentially be…
Fiber Growth Collides With Legacy Revenue Pressure At Telephone & Data Systems (TDS)
On August 7, Telephone and Data Systems (NYSE: TDS) held its second-quarter earnings call alongside its tower subsidiary, Array Digital Infrastructure, and the two businesses told very different stories. Fiber is expanding faster than at any point…
'Sea Of Red': Futures Slide As Market Wakes Up To Soaring Bond Yields And Diesel Prices
US futures are a 'sea of red' (as Bloomberg describes it) in early trading as thin summer volumes persist, with the wrong kind of inflation coming to the fore and Monday's tech selloff weighing on sentiment despite bullish AI news. The recent…
Disney sues FCC and its chair, escalating fight against Trump's chief censor
Disney today sued the Federal Communications Commission and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr in a lawsuit that aims to stop what it called a “campaign of censorship” waged by the Trump administration against ABC. Disney, ABC, and the eight…
30m-high 5G mast approved for York
Telecommunications firm Cornerstone is set to replace an existing 28.6m-high mast in Nether Poppleton, with the new lattice structure featuring six antenna and two dishes. The company's plans stated it would support 5G which was a generational leap…
Exclusive | Nokia to close almost all sites in mainland China by year end: sources
Finnish telecoms equipment giant Nokia plans to cut most of its workforce in mainland China and close sites in stages by year end, marking a sweeping retreat after more than four decades as it loses ground to domestic rivals, according to sources…
Supreme Court rejects Verizon effort to get $46.9M FCC fine refund in location data case
The Supreme Court has denied Verizon's request for rehearing in its fight over a $46.9 million Federal Communications Commission penalty tied to the telecom giant's former customer location data program. The justices denied the petition Monday…
Perplexity's free AI offer left it with millions more users in India
Perplexity spent the past year running one of the biggest AI growth experiments, giving its premium service away to customers of Indian telecom giant Airtel. Now, as the earliest of those free subscriptions expire, the results are starting to…
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