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• Tickets Alert: Walk along the bottom of an empty canal

  28-01-2022 21:38 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, one of East London’s canals will be drained for repairs to be carried out, and you can walk along the bottom of it.
  The Hertford Union Canal runs along the southern edge of Victoria Park linking Stratford with the Regent’s Canal, and at almost 200 years old, the walls which make up the side of the canal are in need of restoration and repair.
  Hertford Union Canal during the 2021 drainage
  Winter happens to be the quietest time for the canals, so that’s when major rest
  
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• Discounted tickets for Death Drop: A Dragatha Christie Murder-Mystery

  28-01-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Death Drop is serving you whodunnit, Agatha Christie-realness with a killer cast of drag queen favourites and endless belly laughs.
  It’s 1991 and a ‘ gang of guests flock to Shantay Manor on Tuck Island for a glamourous soirée to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Charles and Diana, and it’s absolutely to die for. The suspense begins to build up once they reveal their dodgy pasts, resulting in savage confrontation and ferociously&nb
  
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• Masayoshi Son and Marcelo Claure: inside the expensive divorce at SoftBank

  28-01-2022 18:37 via ft.com
  Bolivian billionaire’s demand for $1bn led to fall out with Japanese conglomerate’s founder — and substantial exit package
  
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• Soho’s Harry Potter emporium – the House of MinaLima

  28-01-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The two artists that were heavily responsible for the graphic style of the Harry Potter movies have a shop in Soho, and it’s a Harry Potter world come alive.It’s partly a shop selling Harry Potter branded goodies, and downstairs a big collection of limited edition prints. With so many of us shopping online these days, retail is increasingly about an experience, and this place is an experience. The design of the Harry Potter movies has been soaked into the walls and floors, with wizar
  
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• Google ploughs more money into India with $1 billion Bharti Airtel investment

  28-01-2022 15:12
  
  US technology giant Google will invest up to $1 billion in Indian telecoms giant Airtel as part of its Google for India Digitization Fund.
  The deal includes equity investment as well as a ‘corpus for potential commercial agreements, to be identified and agreed on mutually agreeable terms over the course of the next five years.’
  It comprises of a $700M equity investment in Airtel at a price per share of INR 734, and up to $300M that will go towards implementing commercial agreements s
  
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• One night only – electronic music at the London Coliseum

  28-01-2022 14:16 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For one night in March, the nightclub, Fabric and the English National Opera will be bringing live electronic music to the London Coliseum. Four acts from across the spectrum of electronic music will perform live in a venue more used to the fat lady singing.
  ‘fabric at the Opera’ brings together Frank Wiedemann, one half of electronic duo Âme and co-founder of the prolific label Innervisions, Erased Tapes mainstay Rival Consoles, along with LCY – who also presents her Liv
  
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• Scammers stole $770 million through social media in 2021, says FTC

  28-01-2022 13:34
  
  The Federal Trade Commission, which is currently involved in a lawsuit to breakup Facebook and Instagram parent Meta, has released some stats pointing to the extent of social media fraud.
  The top line stat from the FTC is that more than 95,000 people reported about $770 million in losses to fraud initiated on social media platforms in 2021. This apparently represents 25% of all reported losses to fraud for that year, and an eighteenfold increase over 2017. Presumably this exclusive to the US, al
  
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• Global smartphone recovery hampered by component shortages

  28-01-2022 11:50
  
  The Q4 21 global smartphone shipment numbers show the recovery from the Covid slump of 2020 has been hampered by the chip crisis.
  Strategy Analytics was first out of the block this time, so we’re using their numbers. We use whoever offers numbers first so previous quarter, and thus full-year, tallies in the table we present below may differ from SA’s. It doesn’t really matter, though, since all analyst numbers are educated guesses anyway, and the variation isn’t that grea
  
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• Camden Market offering unlimited meals for £5 each

  28-01-2022 11:03 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For the next couple of weeks, it’s possible to eat at Camden Market’s many food outlets for £5 per dish.
  To get the deal, you need to sign up to the Munch Club to dine for a fiver at participating traders across all of Camden’s Markets; Lock, Stables, Hawley Wharf and Buck Street, simply by showing a voucher.
  Not all meals are available for £5, so you need to check at the vendors — there’s over 80 of them participating though, so there’s bound to b
  
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• TIA touts supply chain security standard

  28-01-2022 10:00
  
  The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is on a mission to turn the phrase ‘securing the telecoms equipment supply chain’ from a soundbite into something a little more tangible.
  TIA’s QuEST Forum this week unveiled a new standard designed to measure and verify the end-to-end cyber and physical security of ICT network infrastructure, including hardware, software and services.
  Called SCS 9001, it aims to crystallise various internationally-recognised guidelines and best
  
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• Crown Castle looks to a brighter future for small cells

  28-01-2022 09:30
  
  Crown Castle has posted a strong set of financials for last year and is already upping its 2022 guidance. But the big news is around small cells; after years of hype, we are finally starting to see some traction.
  Well, probably. The infrastructure specialist is much more bullish on small cells than it was just six months ago, but its predicted uptick in the market is still a year away. And given that this industry has had a lot of false starts on small cells, it would be unwise to fully bank on
  
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• Marcelo Claure leaves SoftBank after dispute with Masayoshi Son

  28-01-2022 07:10 via ft.com
  His exit is the latest high-profile resignation from the Japanese technology conglomerate
  
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• Telia and Polarium partner to optimise network energy usage

  28-01-2022 01:00
  As part of Telia Company’s purpose to reinvent better connected living, the company is looking at how to reinvent its energy consumption and strengthen its network infrastructure. During 2022, Telia will conduct several pilots of Smart Battery Energy Storage Systems with selected partners with the aim to optimize its network energy usage and contribute to balance the electricity grid…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Google lines up $1bn investment in Bharti Airtel

  28-01-2022 01:00
  Back in 2020, Google announced plans to invest $10 billion in India over the next five-to-seven years, via the newly created the Google for India Digitization Fund. At the time, Google noted that the investments would be a mix of equity acquisitions, partnerships, and operational and infrastructure deals, with a focus on helping provide Indian customers with services meeting their unique needs.Just a few months after launch, the India Digitization Fund made its first major investment&helli
  
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• Christel Heydemann to replace Stephane Richard as Orange CEO

  28-01-2022 01:00
  Late last year, Orange CEO Stephane Richard was convicted of misuse of public funds following a legal dispute dating all the way back to 2008, when he served as the chief of staff to then French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde. Though Richard maintains his innocence, he nonetheless immediately offered his resignation to Orange’s Board of Directors, which the Board accepted.  Richard was scheduled to step down from the role of CEO by the end of January…read more on
  
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• China Unicom loses licence to operate in the US

  28-01-2022 01:00
  When Joe Biden first took over the US Presidency from Donald Trump, some Chinese onlookers were hopeful that the new administration would act more favourably towards the activities of Chinese enterprise in the US. The reality, however, has been much starker, with Biden largely continuing with his predecessor’s tough stance on China. Today, in the latest of a long line of blows related to national security…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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