In this week's roundup, we looked at the top news stories from the B2B tech & telecoms industry. The stories cover topics including data centres, appointments, 5G, edge computing, cybersecurity and acquisitions.
Here are our highlights:
monday:
Swedish coop supermarkets shut due to us ransomware cyber-attack
Some 500 Coop supermarket stores in Sweden have been forced to close due to an ongoing "colossal" cyber-attack affecting organisations around the world.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/2V7F3tk
Wholesale 5g company books Ericsson to build $2.6bn network in Malaysia
A new 5G wholesale network aims to cover 80% of the 32 million population of Malaysia by 2024. Government-owned special purpose vehicle (SPV) Digital Nasional has awarded the 11 billion ringgit (US$2.64 billion) construction contract to Ericsson, overturning previous expectations that Huawei would win the deal.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3xiZz8x
tuesday:
ascendas invests $162m on building first Indian data centre
Ascendas Property Fund Trustee, the trustee-manager of Ascendas India Trust (a-iTrust) is investing over $162 million to develop and operate phase one of a new data centre campus in Airoli, Navi Mumbai.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/36uojyZ
welsh semiconductor firm bought by Chinese company
Newport Wafer Fab is an electronics firm which produces semiconductors and employs 450 people at its site in Tredegar Park. It has been bought by Nexperia - which already has a site in Manchester.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3AAVlLE
wednesday:
Average losses from pension scams double in a year, with victims typically losing more than £50,000
Action Fraud said complaint data showed that the average loss this year so far has been £50,949, compared with £23,689 during 2020.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3jQ6ou9
MTS acquires GreenBush data centre for $70m
Russia's mobile operator MTS has acquired the GreenBush data centre in Moscow, which was opened in 2018 as part of a first phase development. The company has paid the equivalent of around $70 million for the data centre.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3hGnGY4
thursday
AT&T AND google cloud expand 5g and edge collaboration
AT&T and Google Cloud have unveiled new solutions across AT&T's 5G and Google Cloud's edge computing portfolio. These new offerings are also available through AT&T's on-premises multi-access edge compute (MEC) solution, as well as AT&T network edge capabilities through LTE, 5G, and wireline.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/2TEkJ2r
$2.5bn cloud data management player Acronis gets new ceo
Cloud data management and security services vendor Acronis has appointed hosting industry veteran Patrick Pulvermueller as its new CEO. Pulvermueller (pictured) succeeds Serguei Beloussov, who founded the company in 2003 and who has served as CEO since 2013.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3wmGlgR
friday:
Vantage Data Centers breaks ground in both Berlin and Warsaw
Vantage Data Centers has broken ground on both its Berlin and Warsaw campuses, which are part of its ongoing $2 billion European expansion programme.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3hpkPnA
Legal challenge over ministers' private email use
The government is facing a legal challenge over the use of private email accounts and WhatsApp by ministers and senior officials.
Campaign group Good Law Project believes current official guidance on it leaves an "accountability gap".
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/2TJqax5
