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• Cisco, AppDynamics M&A emphasises value of data

  25-01-2017 18:29
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Michael Segal, Area Vice President, Strategic Marketing, at NETSCOUT, looks at the implications of Cisco’s proposed acquisition AppDynamics.
  Cisco is in the application and service business. It spent $1.4 billion on acquiring Jasper Wireless last year and is about to invest another $3.7bn in AppDynamics.
  Cisco’s acquisition strategy is indicativ
  
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• Qualcomm gets a piece of Ring connected doorbell investment

  25-01-2017 16:45
  
  What good is a connected fridge if you have to use a boring old analogue doorbell to even get into the house?
  That is the question Qualcomm Ventures is piecing together an answer to, via its investment in smart doorbell startup Ring. A consortium that includes multiple other VCs is handing over $109 million of funding in a bid to enter the market at the bottom. They are hoping to show that the sector’s reputation for pointless gimmickry is just a bum rap.
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• Calix Accelerates Service Delivery with AXOS Sandbox – World’s First Software Defined Access (SDA) Virtual Environment

  25-01-2017 15:56
  
  Real software instances of all Calix AXOS systems expedite back office integration to enable faster innovation and new service introductionPETALUMA, CA – January 25, 2017 – Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX), the world leader in Intelligent Access, today announced AXOS Sandbox, a virtual environment that dramatically improves the economics of new services introduction by eliminating the need for physical systems in service provider labs. With AXOS Sandbox, service providers can speed up servic
  
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• Italian prosecutors open probe into BT scandal

  25-01-2017 15:02
  Cost of unwinding BT Italia accounting irregularities estimated at more than £500m
  
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• Italian prosecutors open criminal probe into BT scandal

  25-01-2017 15:02
  Cost of unwinding BT Italia accounting irregularities estimated at more than £500m
  
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• Microsoft hopes to improve social skills with LinkedIn appointment

  25-01-2017 13:00
  
  Microsoft has named Kevin Scott, LinkedIn’s Senior VP of Infrastructure, as CTO for the tech giant reporting directly into CEO Satya Nadella.
  For the moment, Scott will continue his role on the executive board of LinkedIn, but will initially be responsible for the integration of the two companies cloud services. While the move does demonstrate Microsoft has been learning from the mistakes of others following major acquisitions, it does possibly indicate CRM and social media will play a mor
  
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• Cisco’s IoT drive continues with $3.7 billion AppDynamics acquisition

  25-01-2017 12:31
  
  Networking giant Cisco is betting $3.7 billion that helping businesses maintain and optimise their apps will be a key part of the IoT picture.
  Cisco has a long history of sometimes puzzling (Linksys, Pure Digital) acquisitions, but it seems to be shopping with more discipline these days. Its diversification into enterprise communications seems to have gone well and these days its focus seems to be on IoT cloud platforms, as indicated by the acquisition of Jasper.
  AppDynamics focuses on three mai
  
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• SAP shows the world how digital transformation is done

  25-01-2017 12:29
  
  While many traditional tech giants have been struggling to come to terms with the connected economy, SAP’s latest earnings indicate it is adapting well to the world of cloud computing.
  Admittedly progress is being made elsewhere, though when you look at companies like IBM or Intel or Oracle, these are all monsters of the 90s got beaten to the punch by the cloud native brands. Companies like Salesforce.com or Google fit perfectly in the cloud defined age, and it looks like SA
  
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• EasyJet delayed by currency disruption

  25-01-2017 01:01
  A 1 cent adverse movement in the sterling/dollar rate costs the budget carrier £2.4m
  
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• EE emergency services network faces delay

  25-01-2017 01:00
  EE's 4G-based emergency services network (ESN) is running behind schedule and the delay could cost the U.K. hundreds of millions of pounds per year, it emerged on Wednesday.The new infrastructure, which will be used by 105 police, fire and ambulance services, is due to be up and running by the end of 2019…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Cisco forks out $3.7bn for AppDynamics

  25-01-2017 01:00
  Cisco late on Tuesday agreed to acquire application monitoring specialist AppDynamics for $3.7 billion (€3.4 billion).Based in San Francisco, privately-held AppDynamics' cloud-based platform helps companies keep tabs on the performance of business applications…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Bharti Airtel fiscal Q3 profit plummets amid price war

  25-01-2017 01:00
  Bharti Airtel on Tuesday reported a 54.6% fall in fiscal third quarter profit, as the price war sparked by Reliance Jio Infocomm's aggressive tactics weighed on revenue.India's biggest operator generated group revenue of 233.36 billion rupees (€3.19 billion) during the three months to 31 December 2016…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Altan signs PPP deal for Mexican wholesale mobile network

  25-01-2017 01:00
  Altan Redes this week signed a public-private partnership (PPP) agreement with Mexico's Organismo Promotor de Inversiones en Telecomunicaciones (Promtel), formally kicking off the process of building a nationwide wholesale mobile network in the country…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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