In this week's roundup, we looked at the top news stories from the B2B tech & telecoms industry. The stories cover topics including APIs, data centres, 5G, electric vehicles, broadband, submarine cables, hacking, quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
Here are our highlights:
monday:
at&t and Verizon lead adoption of mef lso apis
MEF has launched a comprehensive set of new APIs, services, and programs in response to market demand to accelerate the implementation of MEF Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) APIs.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3umIdH5
Hexatronic enters us data centre market through acquisition
Swedish fibre player Hexatronic has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Data Centre Systems (DCS) in the US. DCS is expected to generate an EBITDA of around US$3 million in 2021.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/2ZEJHRX
tuesday:
ford announces $11.4bn investment in electric vehicle plants
Ford has announced a major investment in electric vehicle (EV) production in the US, promising to build its biggest ever factory in Tennessee, and two battery parks in Kentucky. Under the $11.4bn plan, the carmaker said it will build zero-emission cars and pickups "at scale" for American customers.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3m9MutX
nokia conducts underground 5g mining trial In Colombia with partners
Nokia and AngloGold Ashanti Colombia, in collaboration with Epiroc, Sandvik, Tigo and OSC Top solutions, recently conducted the first underground 5G mining trial in Jerico, Colombia.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/39YkfJ3
Wednesday:
new expansion will make 2africa cable the longest in the world
The 2Africa cable continues to grow, with its latest branch set to make it the longest submarine cable system ever deployed. The new ‘Pearls’ branch will connect to the existing system around the Horn of Africa before traveling up through the Persian Gulf and across the Arabian Sea to Pakistan and India.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/39MITft
broadband switching to be made faster and easier under new rules
Media regulator Ofcom says new rules will make it faster and easier to switch broadband provider. It means customers will only have to contact the new company they want to deal with, even if they are switching to a different type of technology.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3AS824l
thursday:
British firm claims quantum-computing breakthrough
A UK start-up says it has made one of the world's smallest quantum computers. Orca Computing, founded two years ago by Oxford academics led by Prof Ian Walmsley, says its novel approach will make quantum computing more commercially viable.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3om2QCq
researchers find Apple Pay, vista contactless hack
Large unauthorised contactless payments can be made on locked iPhones by exploiting how an Apple Pay feature designed to help commuters pay quickly at ticket barriers works with Visa. In a video, researchers demonstrated making a contactless Visa payment of £1,000.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/39NGIIw
friday:
ai can predict if it will rain in two hours' time
Scientists at Google-owned London AI lab DeepMind and the University of Exeter partnered with the Met Office to build the so-called nowcasting system. The AI system can make more accurate short-term predictions, including for critical storms and floods.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/2Y3l6VV
america movil and Liberty Latin america to merge chilean businesses
Liberty Latin America (LLA) and América Móvil (AMX) have formed an agreement to combine their respective Chilean businesses, VTR and Claro Chile, to create a 50:50 joint venture.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/2WuAqKN
