Biden follows Trump’s protectionist lead
The foreign policy of the Biden Presidency has a distinctly familiar feel to it, with a new executive order designed to boost domestic industry.
The foreign policy of the Biden Presidency has a distinctly familiar feel to it, with a new executive order designed to boost domestic industry.
Size matters in the latest iteration of Brand Finance’s 2021 ranking of the world’s most valuable telecoms brands.
The guys are delighted to have a new Bribe of the Week to announce on this week’s pod, which helps the conversation flow. They start by reviewing the growing menace of US tech giants, who operate near monopolies in many markets. That leads them on to the state of the European tech industry, especially from a cloudy perspective, before a review of the latest shenanigans from Huawei.
Cheap taxi alternative app Uber has lost its final appeal over the classification of its drivers as ‘workers’, but it’s still not clear what the wider implications will be.
Barely a day goes by without some evidence being presented that one of Facebook, Apple, Amazon or Google has used their power to distort the market.
The most likely future relationship between the two superpowers will neither go back to the hyper-globalised world nor revert to the earlier model of business conducted on national level entirely insulated from one another.
Africa’s leading mobile operator MTN has partnered with payment platform Mastercard to add online payment functions to its mobile wallet for user across its fintech footprint.
The social media platform that offers itself as an alternative to the dominant oligopoly has managed to restore itself a month after AWS cut it off.
When Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi held the first meeting of his new Council of Ministers there was a very familiar name on the list of attendees.
In a recent interview BT CEO Philip Jansen offered some insights into his thinking about the near-term strategy for the UK telecoms group.
With the Biden administration keen to turn back the clock on many policy fronts, it is worth examining what this may mean for the next episode of the USA China rivalry, especially in the technology domains.
Telstra is taking back control of its network of retail outlets, many of which are currently operated under licence by third parties.
There is apparently a trust problem around digital identities and no wonder, with talk of vaccine passports being required for previously unrestricted activities.
UK telecoms group BT reckons there might be something in this digital transformation thing, so it’s setting up a special silo to focus on it.
Orange has spun off its investment fund arm into a separate legal entity renamed as Orange Ventures with €350 million worth of start-up investments.
Location-based services company HERE Technologies has managed to entice the first telecoms client to its Marketplace in the form of A1 Telekom Austria Group.
In the final pod of a remarkable year the guys get straight into appropriately dystopian subject matter. They start by looking at plans for 6G to create a hive mind that anticipates your every need, before moving on to mulling how sensible it is to move all your technology into the public cloud and concluding with the US government’s absurd attempt to sue Facebook for being too successful.
While there’s no doubt that AWS and Toyota may enjoy some success going it alone, there are several reasons why telecoms service providers can play an integral role in the building of these mobility services platforms.
The Swiss Stock Exchange is buying into Custodigit, a digital assets storage facility set up by Swisscom and digital bank Sygnum a couple of years ago.
As social media platforms exercise increasing editorial control over their users, the protections granted to them in US become increasingly obsolete.
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