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Attracting investment to Africa is not the issue, keeping the value is

Europe has been rubbing the White House up the wrong way with the diabolical intention of reforming regulation, and now it appears Africa might be heading the same direction.

• 12 Nov 2019

UK’s Zen Internet gets a £20 million overdraft to take on the incumbents

Independent UK ISP Zen Internet wants to take on the big operators and has secured £20 million in credit from the NatWest bank to help with that.

• 04 Nov 2019

President Trump’s unexpected ally: Finland kick-starts 6G

A few days after Donald Trump tweeted about 6G, for which he was broadly ridiculed, Finland’s scientists proved he had a point by announcing their plan at MWC 2019 to get started on it.

• 27 Feb 2019

SoftBank plans massive IPO for its Japanese telecoms business

Tech conglomerate SoftBank wants to raise a few trillion yen by offering some of its Japanese operator up for public consumption.

• 12 Nov 2018

Former Cisco boss thinks tech leaders are too cocky

John Chambers, who ran Cisco for 20 years, reckons the leaders of tech companies need to dial down the arrogance a bit.

• 05 Oct 2018

Siris Capital makes half a billion bucks in 10 months with Intralinks sale

Private equity firm Siris Capital is selling Enterprise collaboration software vendor Intralinks for $1.5 billion, having bought it for a billion less than a year ago.

• 06 Sep 2018

Nokia gets half a billion euros from Europe to get better at 5G

Finnish kit vendor Nokia has been granted a €500 million loan from the European Investment Bank to help with its 5G R&D efforts.

• 28 Aug 2018

Xiaomi IPO was compromised by Chinese regulators

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi’s initial plan for a dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong was hamstrung by the draconian requirements from Chinese regulators.

• 02 Jul 2018

IPO fails to Xiaomi the money

The initial public offering of Chinese gadget giant Xiaomi seems to has raised considerably less cash than it hoped.

• 29 Jun 2018

Xiaomi launches $6 billion IPO in Hong Kong

Chinese gadget giant Xiaomi has launched its initial public offering in the Hong Kong stock exchange that could raise over $6 billion.

• 25 Jun 2018

Virgin Media Business launches Voom Pitch 2018

The latest iteration of Virgin Media’s take on Dragon’s Den launched today, claiming to be the UK & Ireland’s biggest pitching competition.

• 07 Mar 2018

Softbank might IPO its Japanese telecoms unit, then again it might not

In response to a report claiming it’s going to flog $18 billion of shares in its Japanese mobile units. Softbank has said it might, but no decision has been made yet.

• 15 Jan 2018

The circling sharks are starting to nibble at Reliance Communications

The problems at Reliance Communications are starting to become very well known, and it would appear one of its creditors has finally lost faith in the struggling telco.

• 29 Nov 2017

Altice could flog Dominican Republic business to address debt pile

French telecoms group Altice is planning to sell its business in the Dominican Republic to show it’s serious about whittling down its debt pile, according to a report.

• 24 Nov 2017

Altice tries desperately to restore investor confidence

Embattled telecoms group Altice has been forced to issue a statement addressing recent market speculation as its shares have continued to dive.

• 20 Nov 2017

State-owned China Unicom unveils $11.7 billion of strategic investment

China’s third-largest mobile operator has unveiled the details of its ‘mixed ownership reform’, involving a bunch of new ‘strategic investment’.

• 16 Aug 2017

Play IPO values the Polish operator at €2 billion

Play Communications, owner of polish mobile brand P4, is on the IPO trail, with a value of roughly €2 billion.

• 17 Jul 2017

Altice USA IPO goes quite well – pockets a cool $1.9 billion

The results are in from the Altice IPO which has caused a stir recently, and they are some good ones; the team has raised roughly $1.9 billion through the sale of around 6.5% of shares.

• 22 Jun 2017

Orange thinks BT is a bad bet

French operator group Orange has decided to further reduce its stake in BT despite the shares being worth considerably less than when it acquired them.

• 20 Jun 2017

Polish Play plugs public push

Polish operator Play has announced its intention to to float on the Warsaw stock exchange, in what could be one of the largest telco IPOs in recent years.

• 19 Jun 2017