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• The 19th century Brewers Buildings, Clerkenwell

  14-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A narrow side street in Clerkenwell lined with small houses is also home to a magnificent example of 19th-century philanthropic housing.The land around this part of London was acquired by Alice Owen, a thrice-married lady who in 1598 used her accumulated wealth to buy a plot of farmland for a hospital for poor widows, and vested the rest of the land in the Brewers Company.
  The choice of Brewers Company is probably because her first husband was a member of the Company, and the location due to a l
  
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• An authorised London Underground whisky goes on sale

  14-05-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A week after I wrote about a possibly unofficial London Underground whisky, along comes a bona-fide authorised London Underground whisky.
  And it’s sold in tubes, obviously.London based Bimber Distillery, which was founded in 2015 has an official license from TfL to release an initial range of “The Spirit of the Underground”, and each bottle in the collection features a different station on the London Underground network.
  The launch range features four tube stations, Waterloo, B
  
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• Korea aims to chip away at Taiwan’s semiconductor dominance

  14-05-2021 12:45
  
  South Korean electronics giant Samsung ha pledged to invest $150 billion in its chip business by 2030 and its government says it will get involved too.
  Nikkei Asia reports that the whole of South Korea has committed to invest 510 trillion won in the semiconductor sector, with Samsung alone accounting for a third of it. It should be noted, however, that Samsung had already committed to the bulk of that spend a couple of years ago, but it recently announced it was chucking another $34 billion into
  
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• Rakuten Mobile eyes ‘tremendous profitability’ ahead

  14-05-2021 11:30
  
  The cost of building out a new mobile operation from scratch was all too evident in Rakuten Mobile’s first quarter results, but the company is unconcerned.
  Japan’s newest mobile operator just turned one year old and marked the occasion by reporting a 94.1 billion yen (US$860 million) operating loss for the first quarter of 2021, almost three times the loss it posted in the year-ago quarter and more than 20 yen greater than its loss in Q4. The figures refer to its core mobile business
  
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• Google Cloud takes SpaceX to the edge

  14-05-2021 11:25
  
  US LEO satellite outfit SpaceX will use Google data centres for its cloud applications and services at the network edge.
  SpaceX will move its Starlink ground stations into the Google Cloud for the same reasons pretty much every other network operator is handing the keys to its infrastructure over to public cloud giants: it’s cheaper in the short term and they’re better at it. Cue the standard boilerplate banging on about agility, scalability, and that sort of thing.
  “Combining
  
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• Telefónica generates cash in Q1, but spends it on spectrum

  14-05-2021 10:47
  
  Telefónica’s first quarter results were all about flat earnings, cash generation and debt-reduction, which is as good a performance as the Spanish telco could have hoped for.
  Indeed, the operator declared that its Q1 figures put it on track to meet its targets for the full year, which essentially cover a stabilisation of revenues and earnings and a return to a normalised level of capex-to-revenues of 15%.
  Telefónica generated operating income before depreciation and amortisat
  
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• TIM strike deal with ERG for renewable energy

  14-05-2021 02:00
  ERG, primary independent producer of electricity from renewable sources, through its subsidiary ERG Power Generation, and TIM, leading Group in Italy and Brazil in the ICT sector, through its subsidiary Telenergia, have signed a ten-year corporate PPA (Power Purchase Agreement) for the supply of 3.4 Terawatt-hours (TWh) of green energy for the period 2022-2031The supply will be partly &lsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• TIM strike deal with ERG for 100% ‘green’ energy

  14-05-2021 02:00
  ERG, primary independent producer of electricity from renewable sources, through its subsidiary ERG Power Generation, and TIM, leading Group in Italy and Brazil in the ICT sector, through its subsidiary Telenergia, have signed a ten-year corporate PPA (Power Purchase Agreement) for the supply of 3.4 Terawatt-hours (TWh) of green energy for the period 2022-2031The supply will be partly &lsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Starlink terminals to be placed at Google Cloud data centres

  14-05-2021 02:00
  Last week saw SpaceX launch its latest batch of 60 low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites into orbit, join around 14,000 Starlink others currently circling the globe. This is just the beginning, however, with Musk ultimately planning around 30,000 satellites for the Starlink constellation to provide internet connectivity to customers worldwide. Preorders for the service are already being taken in a number of markets…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Singtel to rethink strategy as it prepares to book almost $1bn loss

  14-05-2021 02:00
  Singtel has today announced that it expects to announce a net loss of $907 million in its upcoming full-year results.The losses come primarily due to the severe impairment of two of its US-based units, digital advertising platform Amobee and cyber-security firm Trustwave. As a result, Singtel has announced a major strategic review that could see significant restructuring of product or business segments…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• “A watershed moment”: South Korea ramps up semiconductor industry funding

  14-05-2021 02:00
  Initiated by the coronavirus pandemic and galvanised by geopolitical tensions, the ongoing semiconductor shortage has seen various markets re-examine their supply chains and consider the future of their domestic tech industry. Under the weight of US sanctions, the Chinese semiconductor market is accelerating rapidly. Facilitated by favourable government policies, including various tax breaks, investment is soaring;  roughly $3.8 billion was invested in Q2 2020 alone…read more o
  
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