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25 Apr
Facebook’s record Q1 results: Users and investors unconcerned by privacy issues
Facebook’s revenues have increased by more than a quarter in the last three months, according to its latest report.
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24 Apr
Smart city challenge for the Americas
The Americas is one of the most urbanised regions in the world.
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24 Apr
French tax breaks for data centres may have Brexit dividend
France is the third largest data centre country market in Europe behind the UK and Germany.
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23 Apr
How digital is coming to an oilfield near you
GlobalData’s latest thematic report, entitled Digital Oilfield, discusses how the oil and gas industry is gearing up to improve competitiveness and sustainability.
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23 Apr
Glimpse of 5G factories of the future at Hannover Messe showcase
The mobile communications industry has spent years trying to stoke consumer enthusiasm around 5G mobile services and how faster mobile broadband speeds might impact people’s lives.
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23 Apr
Amazon’s Alexa human handlers spark privacy concerns
Alexa is listening for your commands, and so, reportedly are thousands of Amazon staff and contractors who are amassing speech data to improve the smart speaker’s responsiveness.
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23 Apr
Tesla’s ‘robotaxis’ will earn money via Airbnb model, claims Musk
During Tesla’s Autonomy Investor Day on 22 April, the company CEO Elon Musk set out a new and more aggressive timeline for the company’s so-called ‘level 5’ autonomous driving car capability scale – cars that are so intelligent they can drive themselves anywhere, without any human assistance.
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23 Apr
Construction on track for Amazon Bahrain data centres
Amazon Web Services began construction of three data centres in Bahrain in 2017.
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17 Apr
Netflix Q1 results: Growth at every turn
Streaming giant Netflix has had a strong start to the year following the announcement of its Q1 results.
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16 Apr
Fresh Alexa privacy concerns prompted by revelations about human intervention
Alexa is listening for your commands, and so, reportedly are thousands of Amazon staff and contractors who are amassing speech data to improve the smart speaker’s responsiveness. This latest news about Alexa’s human assistants has raised by Alexa privacy concerns.
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15 Apr
Prepaid smartphone prices: Half of US devices priced at $600-plus
Premium smartphones have steadily increased in number across the US prepaid market in the last year.
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15 Apr
Pros and cons of Comcast Xfinity Flex streaming platform
Comcast wants to be thought of as a broadband company that offers complimentary TV, mobile and home security services.
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12 Apr
Electronic home assistants coming to a hospital near you
With the rising influence of tech companies such as Amazon and Google in almost every sphere of life, it may be no surprise that these major players are now venturing into the healthcare space.
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12 Apr
Top ten consumer electronics companies ranked: Exclusive thematic research
Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Chinese mobile giant Xiaomi and Apple are the four companies most likely to succeed in the consumer electronics sector, according to exclusive theme-based analysis.
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11 Apr
Apple Music overtakes Spotify in the US and will soon do so globally
Apple Music has overtaken Spotify for subscribers in the US, marking major changes in the music streaming market.
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11 Apr
Why are telcos lagging in the DevOps movement?
Top telco and networking companies gathered to discuss trends around 5G, software-defined networking (SDN) and security at the Open Networking Summit in San Jose, US, earlier this month.
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8 Apr
Abu Dhabi forms technology hub for startups
Abu Dhabi is investing up to 1 billion Emirati Dirham, AED, ($272 million) in Hub71, a programme that offers fully subsidised housing, office space and health insurance for technology startups.
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8 Apr
Zain agrees to sell and lease back Saudi Arabia mobile towers
The Saudi Arabia unit of Kuwait-based Zain Group has agreed to sell and lease back more than 8,100 mobile telecommunications towers to Nigeria-headquartered IHS Holding Limited (IHS) for an estimated 2.52 billion Saudi Riyal ($672 million).
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5 Apr
Germany is blazing an independent path for smart tech regulation
Germany is going its own way on important technology regulation issues, encouraging early technology adoption, protecting data and preserving infrastructure competition.
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5 Apr
Amazon alive and well after Bezos divorce settlement
A decision by the US divorce courts to award MacKenzie Bezos a record settlement is unlikely to damage Amazon’s financial prospects.
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5 Apr
Merger with VHA is crucial to improving TPG’s growth prospects
TPG Telecom, an Australian internet services provider, released its H1 2019 results on 20 March.
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4 Apr
OneWeb and Elon Musks’s SpaceX in a race to connect the world
The collective vision of SpaceX and OneWeb is exciting: very low latency communications and internet access made available in every global location: including isolated rural spots, ships in the middle of oceans and the air space.
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4 Apr
The changing face of e-commerce goods delivery in Africa and the Middle East
Businesses in Africa and the Middle East (AME) frequently have difficulties in the last-mile delivery of physical merchandise to consumers, especially in rural areas.
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4 Apr
Honduran 3G and 4G investment in step with mobile data traffic demand
Monthly voice usage in Honduras will continue to decline from 137 minutes in 2018 to 121 minutes by 2023, primarily due to substitution from traditional voice services to the usage of over-the-top (OTT) voice over IP (VoIP).
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3 Apr
Nicaragua telecoms and pay-TV has growth potential
Despite being one of the smallest markets in the Americas, the Nicaraguan telecoms and pay-TV market holds great growth potential particularly in the mobile and fixed data segments.
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3 Apr
Pinterest files its long-awaited IPO, but admits it faces challenges
Pinterest has shied away from identifying itself as a social network and yet has identified social media platforms as competitors.
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3 Apr
Bahrain poised for 5G rollout by June
Bahrain’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) expects to finalise by mid-April the licensing and spectrum allocation for the country’s 5G radio network.
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3 Apr
Smart sensors are oil’s new frontier
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the main pillars of the framework of Industry 4.0 and capitalises on the internet’s capabilities to connect smart devices so they can collectively generate data and execute functions in the cloud.
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3 Apr
UAE tie-up with Accenture will bring coding to schools ahead of 2020
The digital economy is demanding a fresh approach to education in the United Arab Emirates that places computer skills at its heart.
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2 Apr
Middle East tech sector stands to gain from Uber and Careem merger
The $3.1bn acquisition of Dubai-based ride-hailing firm Careem by its US rival Uber Technologies is viewed as a major victory not only for the six-year-old startup but also for the Middle East’s entire nascent technology industry.