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• Orange chief to step down after receiving suspended jail sentence

  24-11-2021 21:34 via ft.com
  Stéphane Richard convicted of complicity in misuse of public funds in long-running fraud case in France
  
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• London’s Butchers Hall resuming its Carvery Lunches

  24-11-2021 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you fancy a good lunch in one of the City of London’s ancient livery halls – it’s possible. Livery Halls are usually only open to members or hired out for events, but the Livery Hall of the Worshipful Company of Butchers, near the Barbican, holds monthly(ish) public lunches.
  They’ve confirmed dates for the first half of next year.
  Butchers Hall (c) Butchers Company
  Lunch starts with a drinks reception in the Foyer and the Carvery Lunch will be served in the recently re
  
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• M&S Oxford Street set to be demolished

  24-11-2021 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Westminster Council has granted permission for the 1930s building occupied by M&S next to Selfridges to be demolished and replaced with a modern glass and steel building.
  Proposed development (c) M&S / Pilbrow & Partners
  However, there’s a campaign to save the building, and it’s pending a decision at the Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport to grant the building a listing status as a heritage asset based on a report from Historic England. However, last night at
  
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• Telenor flogs $330 million worth of fibre assets

  24-11-2021 14:29
  
  Telenor has inked a deal to sell off a raft of fibre infrastructure assets in Sweden to GlobalConnect.
  Under the terms of the 3 billion kronor (US$330 million) deal, Telenor Sweden will hand over control of fibre wholesale business Open Universe, which connects 200,000 homes with fibre, and a further 14,000 premises it has hooked up directly.
  We are by now used to telecoms operators monetising their fibre assets by selling to or partnering with investment firms, but this deal is slightly differe
  
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• Apple joins the NSO pile-on

  24-11-2021 14:08
  
  US gadget giant Apple is suing Israeli smartphone spyware maker NSO Group on behalf of iPhone users it alleges had their phones hacked.
  NSO has been under increasing scrutiny this year, following the publication of a bunch of stories by a media alliance calling itself Forbidden Stories, which claimed some governments were using NSO’s Pegasus software to hack the phones of selected individuals. The precise motives for such acts can only be speculated about but, suffice it to say, there&rsqu
  
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• You can donate your unused Oyster credit to children’s charity

  24-11-2021 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s Rail Aid month, and there’s a reminder that if you have an old Oyster card knocking around, you can donate the unused credit to the Railway Children charity, which supports at risk children in India, East Africa and the UK.
  TfL has supported Railway Children for many years by enabling customers to donate Oyster cards which are no longer required in donation boxes located on the network, such as at Heathrow Airport.
  What you can do now though is use ticket machines in tube statio
  
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• Component shortages hit smartphone sales as Samsung spends big on chip plant

  24-11-2021 12:50
  
  Global smartphone sales were down by almost 24 million in the third quarter of this year compared with the same period last year, hit by the ongoing component shortage.
  Sales to end users came in at 342.3 million in the three months to the end of September, a decline of 6.8% on the year-earlier quarter, Gartner’s figures show.
  The analyst firm, which earlier this year predicted that the worldwide semiconductor shortage will last into next year, noted that component shortages hit production
  
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• Emtelle Appoints David Parsons as Chief Commercial Officer

  24-11-2021 12:10
  
  Hawick, Scotland, 24 November 2021 - Emtelle, the leading global manufacturer of blown fibre cable and ducted network solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of David Parsons as the company’s new Group Chief Commercial Officer. David has worked within the Emtelle group for more than 25 years, operating most recently as the Sales Director for the UK and Ireland. David will now oversee all group commercial activity as Emtelle continues to grow in response...Source: RealWire
  
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• Orange chief receives one-year suspended jail sentence

  24-11-2021 11:58 via ft.com
  Stéphane Richard convicted of complicity in misuse of public funds in long-running French fraud case
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: The Memorial Garden of Rest, W1

  24-11-2021 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This pocket park is 70 years old this year, and was created on the site of a former church that stood next to Marylebone High Street.There have been two churches on this spot. The first built in around 1400 and was later immortalised by William Hogarth in his Rake’s Progress, as this is the church where the spendthrift Tom Rakwell marries a much richer older woman to regain his fortune.
  That church was demolished and replaced in 1742 with a larger building, and numbered the likes of Lord N
  
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• WIOCC secures $200 million of debt and equity capital to fund expansion strategy

  24-11-2021 01:00
  WIOCC has announced that it has raised $200 million of capital which will be used to support the company’s expansion strategy and accelerate its investments in digital infrastructure. The company’s international strategy sees it making strategic investments in the Equiano and 2Africa submarine cable systems are being made…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Shooting for the Moon: A lunar LoRa achievement

  24-11-2021 01:00
  Today, a team of European scientists have announced that they have successfully sent a LoRa message to the Moon and back using an off-the-shelf small radiofrequency chip.  In the test, the LoRa signal was amplified to 350w using the 25…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Samsung confirms $17bn investment in Texan semiconductor fab

  24-11-2021 01:00
  Today, Samsung has finally announced the location of its long-awaited semiconductor fab, selecting the city of Taylor, Texas, for the $17 billion project.The company first outlined plans for the investment back in February, though at the time it was unclear where exactly the plant would be constructed, with Samsung reportedly in discussions with authorities in Arizona and New York as well as Texas.Taylor was selected, at least in part, due to its proximity to Samsung&rsquo…read more
  
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• CityFibre launches first six ‘super core’ sites on route to creating digital infrastructure for 8 million premises in the UK

  24-11-2021 01:00
  The projects initial 800 Gb/s wavelength ring serves 23 cities and towns and connects six ‘super core’ sites in Leicester, Peterborough Cambridge, Northampton, Milton Keynes and London two further rings to be added by the end of 2021…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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