TheGuardian

JANUARY 1, 2022

Our business writers pick their contenders for the headlines in 2022, from startups to venerable high street favourites In all likelihood, BT will be under new ownership, or at the least involved in a takeover battle, in June next year.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Digital revenue now accounts for 21 percent of its consumer business and is “trending at an annual rate of over $900 million,” Western Union said. Overall, stc — a wholly-owned subsidiary of Saudi Telecom Co. – Digital transactions grew even faster than revenue, Western Union said, rising 96 percent in the third quarter.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Communications service providers have a tremendous opportunity ahead of them to support businesses’ digital transformations at the network edge through both 5G connectivity and cloud-native applications and capabilities,” said George Nazi, Google Cloud’s vice president for telco, media and entertainment industry.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In an effort to assist small business owners in Britian on a greater scale, small business accounting software company FreshBooks has teamed with Barclays to offer joint offerings to customers in the country. The news comes after FreshBooks teamed with Three UK, the telecom and mobile service firm, in 2019. 25) announcement.

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JUNE 7, 2019

A ban on purchasing telecom equipment from Chinese companies including Huawei would add $62 billion to the expenses associated with Europe’s rollout of 5G networks. The White House blacklisted Huawei in May, preventing the Chinese telecom provider from doing business in the U.S.,

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

After a significant partnership last year that expanded its business, Vodacom Group Chief Executive Shameel Joosub announced on Tuesday (Feb. 4) that the company will collaborate with Liquid Telecom to bring 5G mobile services to South Africa. Starting this year, the two companies will offer customers joint 5G mobile services.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

The ministry gave telecom companies in the country a deadline of the end of November to get the technology in place, saying they could use “artificial intelligence or other technological means” to make sure that a person’s identity could be verified.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

21) report in the German monthly business magazine Manager Magazin, per Reuters. . Earlier this month, Uber announced it was partnering with the Korean firm SK Telecom to collaborate on a new venture as well as ride-hailing. The startup blamed third-party payors but did not confirm if the collapse of Wirecard was part of the reason.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

Reliance has a sizable retail presence, with its core business centered on oil refining. The company, which runs supermarkets and purchased the legendary toy merchant Hamleys, disrupted the telecom market in 2017 when it rolled out Jio. to open a line of stores.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

has agreed to take a minority stake in the financial-technology business of MTN Group Ltd., Africa’s biggest wireless carrier, sending the telecom company’s stock soaring by as much as 10%. Mastercard Inc.

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JULY 30, 2019

A third virtual banking license went to Next Commercial Bank, led by Taiwan telecom operator Chunghwa Telecom. According to reports , small businesses are set to be a major target for online banks as providers seek to roll out foreign exchange, online lending and business payment services. .

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JUNE 5, 2020

Jio is considered India’s biggest telecom and offers eCommerce and broadband service. Owned by Mukesh Ambani, who is known as India’s richest man, Jio Platforms is a niche business of his Reliance Industries businesses, which is focused on oil and petrochemicals, CNBC reported. telecom company and India’s Aditya Birla Group.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Axiata Group, a Malaysian telecom firm, has been in talks with as many as 11 different partners to bid for a digital banking license in the country, according to a report by Reuters. Axiata also said it wanted to acquire more assets for its telecom tower firm, edotco, and said it was in no rush to list the business publicly. “We

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MARCH 21, 2019

Bloomberg reported that the company revealed in a letter to investors that Ross stepped down from the role of CEO on March 18 after the company found evidence that it may have overvalued its investment in small-business lending platform QuarterSpot. The company reported the issue to the SEC, which is investigating the matter.

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APRIL 22, 2020

billion deal on Tuesday (April 21) for a minority stake in Indian telecom startup Reliance Jio, giving the social media giant a larger foothold in the region. The deal marks Facebook’s biggest minority stake investment in one company and also makes it the largest minority shareholder in the country’s most popular telecom firm.

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JULY 31, 2019

The country’s parliament passed a bill on Wednesday (July 31), which would allow the people included in the bill to start their own lending businesses and buy shares in Ethiopian banks. The initiative is one of many new financial reforms being pushed by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, whose term began last year.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

SoftBank Founder and CEO Masayoshi Son is trying to take the company from a telecom centered one into a global investment company with the $100 billion Vision Fund it created a few years back.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

Berlin's Mambu is partnering with New Zealand digital lending platform Ranqx , which will use Mambu's API-first digital banking platform to provide digital lending experiences, loan origination, decisioning and monitoring for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), according to a press release.

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MARCH 28, 2019

It’s big business – and about to get bigger, as the stats show, per our latest findings in the Payments and the Platform Economy. 490 billion: Projected value of the global telecom API market by the end of 2024. Underpinning it all? The glue boils down to one word: trust. . $1

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

Orange, the French telecom company, is gearing up to launch an online banking service in an effort to diversify its revenue. Orange Bank has a goal to bring on two million customers in 10 years and break even on the business in four or five years, reported Reuters. The commercial launch will take place on Nov.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

South Korea is taking an early lead in deployment of 5G , with three of the country’s telecoms recently deploying the service. China Unicom, the state-owned telecom, is reportedly on track to launch 5G pilots in 16 cities — Beijing, Hangzhou, Guiyang and others — and China Mobile “will reportedly deploy 10,000 5G base stations by 2020.”.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

Oppo and Vivo are vying to secure components for their devices, hoping to fill a void as Huawei’s mobile business shrinks under the weight of U.S. Swedish telecom equipment giant Ericsson said at the end of last year that the growth of 5G technology and uptake is accelerating beyond what anyone expected.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Tecnotree , a global provider of business support systems for the telecom industry, has launched a digital wallet, called Tecnotree Spark.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Under the terms of the deal that is subject to approval from telecom and antitrust regulators, Verizon said the TracFone purchase will include about $3.1 It’s a business we know well but it’s not one where we’ve been driving our own destiny,” Ronan Dunn, executive vice president and CEO of Verizon Consumer Group, told the newspaper.

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JULY 23, 2020

Roussel said in the release that the new project is the result of the collaboration with NSIA, the Ivorian banker-insurer that mostly works with business markets. He added that he isn’t ruling out expanding the mobile banking service to business customers or small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) later on.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Delivery Hero Acquires Glovo's LATAM Business. Delivery Hero said it has bought the Latin American business of delivery service Glovo for approximately $272 million. The telecom company is intending to have a sweeping rollout of the OpenRAN infrastructure after an intensive wave of testing in 2021.

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JUNE 25, 2020

The telecom group’s banking division has a partnership with Wirecard to process mobile payments with Google Pay and Apple Pay, the news service reported. We have not begun business integration work on the Wirecard partnership and we are pausing the partnership till further notice,” a Grab spokesperson said.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The new Workforce Spend Playbook explores the latest solutions that are enabling construction firms and other small to med ium-sized businesses (SMBs) to maximize their capital, pinpoint cost-saving opportunities and improve their cash flows. Inside The Playbook. About the Playbook.

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MAY 29, 2019

Huawei , the Chinese telecom company that landed on a blacklist in the U.S., The government blacklisted the Chinese telecom player — citing a risk to national security — through that bill. Earlier this month Huawei landed on the blacklist, which means it can’t do business in the U.S. has filed a motion in U.S.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

SolarWinds also works with 85 percent of Fortune 500 companies, all 10 of the largest telecom companies, the top five accounting firms and hundreds of colleges and universities worldwide. defense spending bill to a roundtable meeting of members earlier this month on how best to defend business from cyberthreats.

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JUNE 18, 2020

That makes it a big — and growing — business. But today, telcos and digital service providers are increasingly bundling digital goods directly into a consumer’s telecom subscription. After all, there’s a heck of a lot of content out there looking for distribution just as telecoms are aiming to draw more revenue from their assets.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

As a result, SoftBank will now be the largest stakeholder in Nvidia, which will add to the conglomerate’s holdings in minority stakes, including one in Alibaba and another in SoftBank’s listed Japanese telecom unit. And there’s also been a glut of wider scrutiny against the company’s forward-thinking bets on U.S.

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FICO

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Hyper-personalization points the path forward for telcos to acquire and win more fully risk-aware businesses to successfully increase growth. As a result, new offers go to market far faster, creating far superior customer experiences, enhancing customer lock-in and providing continuously improving service levels, while lowering telecom costs.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Andrew Watkins-Ball, the South African founder of JUMO, noted that the “next phase” of the firm will have it create new offerings and bring its business to Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria in 2020. The company already operates in Pakistan and plans to roll out in India later this year.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Industry verticals retail, hospitality, telecoms and oil have been hit with the most GDPR penalties. A GDPR report issued in June by the European Commission indicated that although GDPR is considered a success, there is still more work to be done, especially concerning small and mid-sized businesses.

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JUNE 17, 2020

billion deal for a minority stake in the telecom startup Reliance Jio , giving the social media giant a larger foothold in the region. India has more than 60 million small businesses, and millions of people rely on them for jobs,” Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. billion people.

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JULY 12, 2017

In tandem with new investments, Darktrace has also announced a new partnership with CITIC Telecom CPC, a Hong Kong-based telecom firm serving China and other areas of Asia. Together, Darktrace and CITIC CPC hope to spread “next-generation cyber defense to businesses across Asia Pacific.”. It is not an investor in Darktrace. “As

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