Elon Musk’s $44 billion cash proposal to take over Twitter Inc. was approved on Monday, giving the world’s richest man control over the social-media network where he is also one of its most popular users. As part of the arrangement, Musk plans to take Twitter private. Tesla’s CEO promised additional features and reaffirmed his call for Twitter’s content moderation policy to be loosened. Free speech, according to Musk, is the backbone of a functional democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where important issues affecting humanity’s future are argued. If approved, the acquisition would be one of the largest in tech history, with worldwide ramifications for years to come, including the potential to shape how billions of people use social media. Elon Musk took a bite out of Twitter in early April, leaving with 9.2% of the firm and plans to exert control over it through…
Nokia to deliver additional networking scale and capacity to Microsoft Nokia’s 7250 IXR chassis-based interconnect routers have been selected to serve high-density 400GE applications in Microsoft’s tier-2 network…
Ribbon Communications Inc., a global provider of real-time communications software and IP Optical networking solutions, has joined Microsoft’s new Operator Connect Accelerator for Microsoft Teams as an ecosystem…
As part of its search for new technological and research collaborations, Viasat Inc., a global leader in satellite communications, has joined the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus’s Space…
S-NET Communications, a provider of cloud-based business communications and networking solutions, and Versa Networks, a supplier of secure access service edge (SASE), have decided to expand their partnership…
Onoff is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) that offers cloud-based phone services and is a licensed telecommunications provider in 21 countries. Onoff combines the flexibility of mobile…
T-Mobile US hacked and tried paying off the hackers Following a cyberattack last year in which the personal data of 30 million customers was stolen, US-based T-Mobile appears…
DIDWW, a leading provider of premium quality VoIP communications and two-way SIP trunking services, has announced that its team will be participating in the world’s largest wholesale telecommunications…
Ericsson has ceased operations in Russia in order to comply with international sanctions imposed in the weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Nokia, too, has announced its intention…
Enreach, the UCaaS and CCaaS company supported by the independent investment firm Waterland Private Equity, has rebranded Voiceworks and i4IP, two Dutch indirect cloud communications and IT startups,…