In this week's roundup, we looked at the top news stories from the B2B tech & telecoms industry. The stories cover topics including acquisitions, 5G, agritech, fibre networks and partnerships.
Here are our highlights:
Telefonica Deutschland / O2 announced that it is accelerating the shutdown of its 3G network in various regions of Germany.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3BpbP96
Equinix and IBM have announced a partnership to develop hybrid cloud journeys. Their aim is to help customers and partners integrate multiple cloud solutions in hybrid environments, solve digital transformation challenges and automate time-consuming work.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3zwG6lZ
QTS shareholders have voted to approve its acquisition by Blackstone, the global alternative asset manager with US$684 billion in AUM.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/38rV3cY
Intel and Submer are to co-develop a solution they said will help accelerate industry standards for the adoption of immersion cooling.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/38xd7Cq
Major cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, has mistakenly sent emails to 125,000 users, wrongly telling them their two-factor authentication settings had been changed.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3jAMzqo
DE-CIX has added its fifth internet exchange in the US, in Phoenix, Arizona.
The development means that DE-CIX now serves four out of the top five markets in the US – Chicago, Dallas, New York, and now Phoenix.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3mTgITJ
Amazon Web Services was hit with a six-hour outage in Japan today which crippled online trading, communications firms and transport companies, among others.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/38DE1bS
Sparkle puts into operation its fourth data center in the Country, built to meet the needs of Carriers, OTTs and Enterprises.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/2Vb8lHJ