Facebook to Invest Rs. 43,574 Crore in Jio Platforms for a 9.99% stake

Reliance Industries Limited, Jio Platforms Limited and Facebook, Inc. announced the signing of binding agreements for an investment of Rs. 43,574 crore by Facebook into Jio Platforms.

Germany And Apple In Conflict Over Smartphone COVID-19 Contact Tracing

Google and Apple recently announced their combined plan to facilitate contact tracing which involves tracking the people who came in contact with infected people...

CenturyLink helps slow OTT and gaming traffic in Europe during COVID

CenturyLink's Chief Technology Officer Andrew Dugan said that some European regulators asked two groups of internet content providers to slow traffic...

Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology

Across the world, governments and health authorities are working together to find solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, to protect people and get society back up and running. Software developers are contributing...

US threatens to block China Telecom from American market

The United States threatened Thursday to cut off Beijing-controlled China Telecom from serving the US market because of legal and security risks...

MENA prepared for telecommunications challenges amid COVID-19

The report touches on the initiatives launched by the UAE government to continue work and distance education, through infrastructure based on AI...

IBM Offers Watson Assistant for Citizens to Provide Responses to COVID-19 Questions

With COVID-19 affecting 206 countries, areas and territories, IBM is helping government agencies, healthcare organizations and academic institutions throughout the world use AI to put critical data...

Qatars telecom, utilities sectors remain immune to COVID-19 jitters

Utilities and telecom are the least affected sectors in Qatar in the COVID-19 pandemic impact. Consumer and health sectors were barely affected, according to KPMG.

UNICEF and MS launch global learning platform to help address COVID-19 education crisis

The report touches on the initiatives launched by the UAE government to continue work and distance education, through infrastructure based on AI...

Ericsson and U.S. Cellular increase mobile broadband capacity during pandemic

U.S. Cellular with Ericsson support, began boosting mobile broadband capacity to customers in parts of Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, New Hampshire, Maine and North Carolina, due to increased demand for data...

Frances Covid-19 Contact Tracing Strategy In The Hands Of Tech Giants

France's contact tracing strategy to combat the spread of Covid-19 has been thrown into question after the country admitted the impact of an under-development app...

Alibaba to invest $28bn in cloud amid Covid-19 tech boom

Alibaba Group has announced of one of the single largest expansion projects in the history of cloud with plans to invest 200 billion yuan in cloud infrastructure...