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Could Europe’s giant four carriers rival Starlink with new consortium?
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (296+ words) Four of Europe’s largest telecom operators are reportedly in talks to create a consortium that will bid on satellite spectrum and offer direct-to-mobile service in Europe, Bloomberg news reported earlier this week. The partners; Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, France’s Orange, Spain’s…...
Google commits $13bn to Finnish digital infrastructure
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (512+ words) Google's Hamina data centre. Image: Google Once operational, Google said the new infrastructure will support 7,000 jobs annually. In its single largest investment in Europe to date, Google has promised to pump $13bn into Finland’s digital infrastructure over two years, including supporting…...
Anthropic reportedly backs from $6bn Decart AI acquisition
6+ day, 16+ min ago (338+ words) The acquisition was expected to help Anthropic’s compute infrastructure absorb its growing demand. Anthropic is backing away from talks to acquire Decart AI, a research start-up building technology that improves chip efficiency, Bloomberg news reported earlier today (8 September). The deal…...
Reuters: Anthropic delays IPO plans to October
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (363+ words) The latest plans could see Anthropic completing its listing days before the US mid-term elections in November. Anthropic is expected to delay its initial public offering to mid-October at the earliest, Reuters news reported late last week. The delay pushes…...
Isar Aerospace launches rocket carrying satellites, in European first
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (469+ words) Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket takes off from the Andøya Spaceport in Norway. Image: Isar Aerospace. The launch is a key step in Europe’s goal to compete with US-based organisations for commercial space missions. A rocket developed and controlled by Isar…...
Opera loses DMA 'gatekeeper' legal challenge over Microsoft Edge
1+ week, 4+ day ago (529+ words) Opera had argued that the European Commission had erred ‘by failing to designate Microsoft as a gatekeeper in relation to its web browser core platform service Edge’. Norwegian web browser provider Opera has lost a legal challenge at the EU…...
At the intersection of AI and finance, 'we can’t take breaks in education"
1+ week, 5+ day ago (587+ words) Fiserv’s Colm O’Donaill discusses the ever-more-vital issue of security in a finance landscape being transformed by AI innovation. Now a senior vice-president and CIO for EMEA at global fintech and payments platform Fiserv, Colm O’Donaill took his first steps into…...
Nvidia investing $3.5bn in semiconductor company MediaTek
1+ week, 5+ day ago (343+ words) The chipmaker is aiming for a landscape in which future AI development is in line with its own hardware and standards. Nvidia has announced plans to invest $3.5bn into MediaTek, a Taiwanese semiconductor company that produces chips. The investment is the…...
PayPal cuts 164 Irish jobs to ‘simplify’ operations
1+ week, 6+ day ago (406+ words) Proposed redundancies are expected to take place between 7 and 21 October. PayPal is laying off 164 of its Ireland-based workers in a now familiar Big Tech move to “simplify” company operations for long-term growth. The layoffs represent 11.9pc of PayPal’s total full-time Irish…...
Dublin's Entity raises €5m for ‘new web’ era gaming platform
2+ week, 5+ day ago (335+ words) From left: Fergus Duggan; Dave McGovern; Rich Barnwell; and Kev Bergin. Image: Entity Entity wants to eliminate the need for consoles and PCs to allow players to access games directly via browsers. Dublin-founded gaming distribution start-up Entity has raised €5m in…...