Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made a formal offer to purchase Twitter outright for $43 billion. Musk has filed an updated 13D with the SEC, offering $54.20 per share for 100 percent control of the social media platform.
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Cellhire has appointed Duncan Griffiths to the newly created position of Head of Sales – M2M & IoT Connectivity.
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In an agreement brokered Thursday evening, negotiators from the European Parliament and the Council reached a political agreement on the Digital Markets Act, which establishes a series of prohibitions and obligations for companies including Apple, Google, Meta and Amazon, and a number of smaller platforms.
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The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded Verizon Public Sector three Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) task order awards worth $966.5 million.
Cyberflashing will become a new criminal offence in England and Wales with perpetrators facing up to two years behind bars under new laws to be introduced by the Government.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is taking a closer look at Google and Meta’s conduct over concerns that they hampered competition in markets for online display advertising services.
Polygon, an Ethereum scaling platform onboarding millions to Web3, has partnered with NFT music platform Token||Traxx ahead of its Token Generation Event (TGE) this month.
Rapid Mobile has changed its company name to Rapid Meta, as the company set out new growth plans and an expansive slate of new international content.
Viral word game, ‘Wordle’, has been acquired by The New York Times. Wordle was acquired from its creator, Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, for a price “in the low seven figures,” The Times said. The company said the game would initially remain free to new and existing players.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted unanimously to revoke China Unicom's operator’s licence to do business in the US, citing concerns over national security.
The National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) has announced its program for this year’s Data Privacy Week 2022 (January 24-28, 2022).
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Girls Talk London and partners BT, Vodafone, Virgin Media O2 and HSBC UK are to launch a technology talent accelerator for female university students in the UK and Ghana who are currently pursuing a career in technology.
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