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Deutsche Telekom is expanding its collaboration with Google to take RCS messaging and Android-based MagentaTV One across the company’s European markets. -
Nearly a year after Google’s parent group burst a project to use balloons to deliver mobile coverage in east Africa, another scheme has popped up.
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Google’s former Moonshot project, Loon, has transferred its patents to SoftBank for the Japanese company’s own balloon-based base station work.
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Apple, Alphabet and Microsoft have all broken their existing records for quarterly revenues in their latest financial results.
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Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google have come closer to facing regulation in the US following approval of a report by the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee.
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Google and its data centre contracting companies have been ordered by a US labour tribunal to allow workers to organise, after a worker was suspended for discussing wages with her colleagues.
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The chairman of the US House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel has unveiled a new strategy to take on big tech.
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Telkom Kenya is set to lose its balloon-powered 4G network, only months after it launched the service in the presence of the country’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta.
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Econet, which owns African wholesale network Liquid Telecom, is to use laser beams to carry traffic through the air where fibres are impractical.
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Deutsche Telekom has demonstrated high-speed 4G mobile transmission from a remotely powered aircraft in a project to test ways to expand rural coverage.
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In the strongest confirmation of its ambitions to date, Reliance Industrial Investments has sold approximately 135,000 Jio-owned towers and, through Reliance Retail Ventures Limited, has acquired logistics and retail capabilities from the Future Group.
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Telkom Kenya has activated its rural 4G mobile service using balloons from Google’s sister company Loon.
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Mobile operator Vodacom is to use Alphabet’s Loon balloon-carried base stations to extend coverage in Mozambique.
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Alphabet Inc. is slowing down on hiring employees for the remainder of the year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Google CEO, Sundar Pichai (pictured), has also been named CEO of Google parent company Alphabet.
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The US Justice Department has begun an investigation into what it thinks may be anti-competitive actions by online platforms.
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Companies owned by SoftBank and Google owner Alphabet have put $250 million into a company that plans to deliver internet access from balloons and uncrewed aircraft.
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Rumours are continuing about the future of Zayo, with a leading US analyst telling investors that Google owner Alphabet would be an unlikely buyer.
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Google associate Project Loon is considering expanding its balloon-supported 4G network from Kenya to Uganda, according to reports.
