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Plans for Google’s Honomoana cable, announced as part of its Pacific Connect initiative, have been expanded to connect New Zealand and add an additional landing station in Australia.
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Google has announced a $1billion investment to expand its Central Pacific Connect Initiative, which includes delivering two new subsea cables, Proa and Taihei.
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Lanre Kolade, the CEO of the company that manages the Equiano cable landing station in Lome, Togo, tells Capacity that his firm is providing an additional 300G since the faults to other cables serving West Africa.
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Four submarine cables running along the coast of West Africa have been damaged or are experiencing downtime, leading to internet outages in numerous countries across the region.
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Kyndryl has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to develop ‘responsible’ generative AI solutions and to accelerate adoption among customers.
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Singtel will collaborate with Google to offer Rich Communication Services (RCS) with Rich Business Messaging to its business customers – a first in Singapore.
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Google has bought land in Essex for the possible development of its new data centre campus.
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Google will invest US$1 billion in a new data centre in the UK, located in Waltham Cross Hertfordshire.
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Google has confirmed plans for the central Pacific Connect initiative, which will deliver two new intra-Pacific subsea cables, Bulikula and Halaihai.
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Google has announced that it is joining Desarrollo País of Chile (Country Development of Chile) and Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) to build Humboldt, a subsea cable connecting Chile, French Polynesia, and Australia.
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Telxius has confirmed that it is joining the Firmina subsea cable system.
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Google has announced the launch of Nuvem, a new transatlantic subsea cable system that will connect Portugal, Bermuda, and the US.
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The economic benefits and improvements to people’s everyday lives brought about by artificial intelligence (AI) will outweigh the hit of job losses, Google has indicated in a new report.
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Google Cloud and UKG will bring generative AI (GenAI) to UKG human capital management (HCM) suites.
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Caroline Puygrenier, who left Digital Realty in February, has joined Google as a strategic negotiator.
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Google is advancing the reconstruction of its subsea team with the appointment of Nigel Bayliff, who will join the company in May, Capacity understands.
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Vodafone will expand its European collaboration with Google in mobile messaging services, Pixel devices and its own TV platform.
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Google Fiber, a fibre-to-the-premises provider in the US, confirms its latest network expansion into Colorado and Arizona.
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Unity and Google have expanded their partnership across their ecosystems to support studios accelerate the growth and development of their live games.
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Google’s cloud regions and offices in the UK and Spain are on track to operate at or near 90% carbon-free energy in 2025, according to a senior company executive.
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Online platforms in the European Union have until three months today to report their number of users.
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Google will open its first data centre in Japan in Inzai City, Chiba in 2023.
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Gaming remains a huge opportunity that players like Google cannot ignore, despite its recent shutdown of its Stadia streaming service according to Paolo Pescatore, TMT analyst at PP Foresight.
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Nokia and Google confirm the successful trial of network slice selection functionality on 4G/5G networks.
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Google has confirmed the completion of its third data centre in Singapore, bringing its total investment in the country to US$850 million.
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Google Fiber will bring its high-speed internet service to several cities in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska and Nevada as it expands its network.
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The arrival of Google's Equiano subsea cable in South Africa has bolstered WIOCC's wholesale capabilities.
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Google Cloud has announced a surprising partnership with fashion retailer H&M.
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Google confirms the opening of its new Google Cloud region in Milan, in partnership with TIM.
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Five hyperscalers make up the world’s five most valuable brands, according to the latest brand-value survey, and two others are also in the top 10.
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The total investment in global data centre infrastructure more than doubled in 2021 to US$53.8 billion.
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Google confirms the general availability of its latest cloud region in Madrid.
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Seventy companies from the data centre industry have promised to reduce carbon in digital infrastructure materials, products and power – only six weeks after the campaign started.
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Google and WIOCC confirm the landing of the Equiano subsea cable in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Google has unveiled Topaz, its latest subsea cable system connecting Japan to Canada across the Pacific.
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The Singapore-based DC Alliance is to "explore the commercial viability" of a tier-rated data centre in the Republic of Palau following an MoU with the Pacific Blockchain Corporation and the launch of a Digital Residency scheme in the country.
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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.
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Bharti Airtel (Airtel) and Google are to partner on a long-term, multi-year agreement to accelerate the growth of India’s digital ecosystem.
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Google has hired Telxius’s Enrique Valdes to join its global network acquisition team, based in Zürich, after nearly two decades with the Telefónica group.
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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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Southeast Asia’s internet economy is on track to reach $1 trillion by 2030 according to an industry report commissioned by Google.
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A former Google employee who led staff protests about alleged sexual assaults is to join the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as its artificial intelligence (AI) expert.