In this week's roundup, we looked at the top news stories from the B2B tech & telecoms industry. The stories cover topics including: metaverse, mobile apps, telecommunications, cybersecurity, SDWAN, Darknet, subsea cables and telecom towers.
Here are our highlights:
monday:
softbank and herman invest $150m in improbable and the metaverse
Improbable, a UK-based metaverse technology company, has raised US$150m to build M² (MSquared), a network of interoperable Web3 metaverses. The M² network will feature new services that support interoperability, commerce in digital assets and governance in Web3.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3xeDLxH
google removes apps for secretly copying phone numbers
Google has removed more than a dozen apps from its Play Store after learning they contained malicious code which was harvesting people's locations, phone numbers, and email addresses. These include a QR code scanner, a weather app, and Muslim prayer apps. Some of the apps had been downloaded more than 10 million times.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3O18WlZ
tuesday:
telcos jointly agree to cut roaming fees between eu and ukraine
With the Ukrainian refugee crisis continuing to grow, 27 telecoms operators are taking part in a joint initiative to enable affordable or free roaming between the EU and Ukraine for the next three months.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3velD47
ai spera unveils new cyber threat intelligence search engine
AI Spera on Monday announced Criminal IP, a new cybersecurity platform and is a total Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) search engine intended to identify potential vulnerabilities that threatening companies or individuals' IT assets.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3jtepnt
wednesday:
Vertical Systems: U.s Carrier managed Sd-wan to hit $7.8b by 2026
The U.S. market for Carrier Managed SD-WAN Services is projected to surge to $7.8 billion by 2026, according to latest research from Vertical Systems Group. Revenue for this rapidly expanding market segment is derived from U.S.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3jztVOI
Raidforums marketplace shut down in global operation
An online forum providing criminals with stolen personal data has been taken down, in a global operation which saw its founder arrested. Found on the open web rather than the darknet, RaidForums hosted sensitive financial information and "served as a major online marketplace for hackers".
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3JK1Lvi
thursday:
google's topaz cable set to link canada to japan
The submarine cable system will be the first to link Canada directly to Asia, aiming to provide additional capacity for Google services and to a variety of network operators in Japan and Canada. The Topaz cable will take a short hop from Vancouver, Canada, to Port Alberni on Vancouver Island, before travelling West across the Pacific to Japan, where it terminates at the cities of Shima and Takehagi.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3jDlamT
deutsche telekom preparing to sell stake in tower biz
Towards the end of 2021, Deutsche Telekom’s CEO, Timotheus Höttges, announced during an investor conference that he was interested in finding a partner for the company’s tower business, with media reports later suggesting that a stake sale in the unit was imminent. Analysts have previously suggested that Telekom’s roughly 40,600 towers, could be worth up to €18 billion.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3vkyZMi
