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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. 0827 GMT – European indexes gain at the open, though software stocks vulnerable to…
5 CEOs On How AI Will Redefine The UC, Collaboration And Telecom Space In 2026
The toughest challenge for customers is that AI is forcing a new standard for networking and most legacy environments weren't built for it. AI workloads are distributed across multiple clouds, data centers, and the edge, and they must communicate…
Telecom Stocks To Research - February 3rd
GM, TRV & ASML: 3 Industry Giants Boosting Buybacks in 2026 AT&T, Dycom Industries, and Vodafone Group are the three Telecom stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Telecom stocks are shares of companies that provide…
What Telecom Can Learn from SRE-And What It Can't
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) reshaped how modern software companies think about uptime, failure, and scale. Telecom, meanwhile, has spent decades engineering for reliability — long before SRE was a thing. So when telcos look at SRE…
Opinion | Are We at the End of the Industrial Age?
David Leonhardt, an Opinion editorial director, hosted an online conversation with three economists about the effects that artificial intelligence is — or isn't — already having on employment and about how big a transition society is…
'Capture it all': ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) demanded that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirm or deny the existence of a “domestic terrorists” database that lists US citizens who protest ICE's immigration crackdown. ICE…
China raises taxes on select sectors: a one-off fix or tough times ahead?
Beijing has recently targeted tax incentives in telecoms and other select industries after fiscal revenue dropped sharply in late 2025, fuelling market speculation of similar, larger-scale moves and triggering volatility. The South China Morning…
X office raided in France's Grok probe; Elon Musk summoned for questioning
French law enforcement authorities today raided X's Paris office and summoned Elon Musk for questioning as part of an investigation into illegal content. The Paris public prosecutor's office said the yearlong probe was recently expanded because the…
Singtel and KKR consortium to buy remaining stake in STT GDC for US$5.2bil
Corporate News SINGAPORE Telecommunications said on Wednesday that a consortium it is part of with private equity firm KKR will acquire an 81.7% stake in Temasek Holdings' data centre business for S$6.6 billion ($5.20 billion). Singtel will invest…
KKR, Singtel pay $5.2 billion for full control of data centre operator STT GDC
SINGAPORE, Feb 4 (Reuters) - A KKR and Singapore Telecommunications consortium will pay S$6.6 billion ($5.2 billion) in cash to take full control of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), the companies said on Tuesday, in an…
8 hot networking trends for 2026
Credit: DC Studio / Shutterstock AI's impact on the networking industry is hard to ignore. At a pace that hardly seems imaginable, we have gone from AI as a backend data-crunching technology that required specialized data scientists, to generative…
AI comes for the software giants, and Australia is no safe haven
Daniel Petre has invested millions of dollars in software companies over the years. Now, with markets worried that rapid advances in artificial intelligence will all but wipe out their growth, the veteran venture capitalist is the first to warn…
SGT Solutions, Keysight deploy Hawkeye active monitoring in West Africa
SGT Solutions, Keysight deploy Hawkeye active monitoring in West Africa. SGT Solutions, a South African company certified as B‑BBEE level two specialising in systems integration, has partnered with Keysight, and they were awarded the initial…
KKR, Singtel Consortium to Acquire STT GDC for $5.2 Billion
A KKR & Co. -led group agreed to buy data center operator STT GDC Pte for S$6.6 billion ($5.2 billion) in cash, marking the latest global deal in digital infrastructure supporting the boom in artificial intelligence. Other investors in the group…
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Atul Sharma exits Ruder Finn India after seven years
Atul Sharma has exited Ruder Finn India, bringing to a close a seven-year association with the communications firm. Sharma most recently served as CEO of Ruder Finn India and head of the Middle East, a role he took on in March 2023. He joined Ruder…
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