In this week's roundup, we looked at the top news stories from the B2B tech & telecoms industry. The stories cover topics including acquisition, AI, satellites, data centres and apps.

Here are our highlights:

monday:

ESR Cayman acquires $2.15bn data centre site in Japan

ESR Cayman has acquired a data centre facility in Osaka, Japan, which is estimated to have a gross asset value of around $2.15 billion. It is ESR Cayman's first active data centre development.

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3mDHs8J 

Finnish Mobile Brand HMD Global Launches MVNO in the UK

Finnish mobile brand HMD Global on Thursday announced the launching of a disruptive mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in the UK. 

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3mD319k 

tuesday:

Microsoft makes $20bn bet on speech AI firm Nuance

Microsoft Corp plans to buy a tech firm known for helping to develop Apple's Siri speech recognition software in a deal valued at $19.7bn (£13.3bn).

Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3dW26gt 

Phone app alerts users to look up while walking

Android users will receive a notification telling them to stop looking at their mobile phones while walking, a leaked new tool suggests.

Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/2RrR0bj 

wednesday:

OneWeb targets Kazakhstan as satellite centre, marking Gagarin anniversary

Kazakhstan is building a satellite centre of excellence in association with UK/Indian operator OneWeb.

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/2Q12W3w 

Tencent opens first data centre in Indonesia to access $800m market

China's Tencent Cloud has launched its first data centre in Indonesia to take advantage of one of the fastest growing public cloud markets in the Asia Pacific region.

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/2Q2CuX5 

thursday:

Europe seeks to limit use of AI in society

The use of facial recognition for surveillance, or algorithms that manipulate human behaviour, will be banned under proposed EU regulations on artificial intelligence.

Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3djMqnU 

Virgin Media and O2 'blockbuster' merger provisionally approved

A £31bn merger between mobile networks Virgin Media and O2 has been provisionally approved by the UK's competition watchdog.

Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3g8FZpL 

Friday:

ipi partners raises $3.8bn for more data centre investments

IPI Partners has raised $3.8 billion from its backers to plough more into data centre assets. 

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3aizWeB 

Google Earth time-lapse feature winds clock back 37 years

Google Earth  has launched a time-lapse feature that lets users wind back the clock and see how the world has changed over several decades.

Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3uVSfhk