KCOM goes (for the final time) to Macquarie for £627m in Takeover Panel-managed auction
KCOM auction adds £123m to price on opening offer filed in April
Hull-based telecoms company KCOM has finally been sold for £627 million - a 24 per cent increase on the initial £504 million offered by Humber Bidco back in April. And that opening bid had represented...
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Tech CEOs call on US to stay in Paris climate pact
The President announced that the US was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement in 2017
Apple caves in to demands to show Crimea as part of Russia
Apple's concession to Russian government demands follows on from its cave-in to China over apps used by Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters
Google sued over alleged anti-competitive practices in online advertising
Inform claims Google used anti-competitive practices to shut it out of the online advertising market
Peter Cochrane: The General Election and the UK's full-fibre failures
The UK could have had full-fibre 20 years ago, but for government short-sightedness. But this election's fibre promises should be treated with scepticism, writes Professor Peter Cochrane
Europe's regional internet registry has no more IPv4 addresses to allocate
RIPE NCC made the final /22 IPv4 allocation on 25th November 2019