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• KKR set to make offer for Telecom Italia’s fixed-line business

  01-02-2023 22:55
  Possible deal could unlock stalemate over debt-laden company’s future
  
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• Self-driving bus trial to launch in Cambridge

  01-02-2023 18:22
  A new self-driving bus trial will kick off in Cambridge next year – though safety drivers will remain on board.
  The trial, called the Cambridge Connector project, will run next year and involve up to 13 automated electric vehicles serving routes around the city, backed by £8.7 million from government which is being matched by ‘industry’ of some description.
  The ‘on-demand’ self-driving shuttle service will run around Cambridge University’s West Cambridge
  
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• US and India vow to collaborate on telecoms and tech

  01-02-2023 17:56
  The US has moved to further isolate China by deepening its relationship with regional rival India.
  A broad-ranging collaboration was announced yesterday under the banner of ‘the initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET)’. It’s actually an expansion of that initiative, first unveiled in May of last year. The nature of this tech collaboration was revealed by the fact that the inaugural meeting of iCET was led by national security advisors from each country.
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• Vodafone/Elliott: activist seeks an opportunistic gain from tower sale

  01-02-2023 17:15
  US activist’s gambit depends on German securities law protecting minorities from premature squeeze-outs
  
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• London exhibitions to visit in February 2023

  01-02-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A selection of ten excellent exhibitions to visit in February, the Roman month of purification as you choose to purify by gladly reaching for a glass of wine after suffering dry January.Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt
  British Museum, Bloomsbury
  Adults: £18 | Children: Free | Concessions: £16
  A major exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
  (note: the exhibition closes on 19th Feb)
  Details here
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• Elizabeth line hits 100 million journeys milestone

  01-02-2023 15:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Over 100 million journeys have now been taken on the Elizabeth line (nee Crossrail) since it opened in May 2022.Transport for London (TfL) data also shows that ridership on the line is currently above expected levels with around 600,000 journeys made each day, meaning the railway is already one of the busiest in the UK and is on track to break even by the end of the 2023/24 financial year.
  The five most popular journeys made on the Elizabeth line all include Tottenham Court Road, with the most p
  
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• Tate Modern loses privacy court case from neighbouring flat owners

  01-02-2023 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Flat owners in the Neo Bankside development next to Tate Modern have won an appeal that could see the gallery having to close or redesign a public walkway around its extension building.The lawsuit was started back in 2017 when residents of the flats complained that people walking around the outdoor walkway that snakes around the Tate Modern extension building were looking into the flats, and sharing photos on social media.
  Their lawsuit against the Tate argued that this was “unreasonably i
  
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• More gloom at Vodafone as service revenue slides in Europe

  01-02-2023 13:06
  Vodafone’s interim CEO Margherita Della Valle had the unenviable task on Wednesday of delivering a disappointing set of quarterly financials.
  Organic service revenue growth slowed to 1.8% in fiscal Q3 from 2.5% in the prior quarter and from 2.7% a year earlier. Voda’s biggest market, Germany, reported a 1.8% fall in service revenue due to customer losses. Stiff competition in Italy and Spain resulted in service revenue declines of 3.3% and 8.7% respectively.
  It was offset slightly by
  
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• Proposal to extend the Northern line to Clapham Junction

  01-02-2023 12:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A plan to extend the London Underground’s Northern line to Clapham Junction is being investigated by Wandsworth Council.
  A paper being considered by Wandsworth Council’s transport committee is looking at the extension though, as part of a wider plan to improve the Clapham Junction town centre. They say that “a key element of improving public transport would be the further extension of the Northern Line from Battersea Power Station to Clapham Junction.”The original plan to
  
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• EE hooks up London Underground stations to 5G network

  01-02-2023 12:27
  UK operator EE is now piping in 5G to Archway and Tufnell Park on the Northern line, and Notting Hill Gate on the Central line.
  ‘Continuous 5G coverage’ from ticket halls to platforms is promised at Archway, Tufnell Park and Notting Hill Gate, while it is also available within the tunnel segment at Notting Hill Gate and this will be replicated in Archway and Tufnell Park shortly.
  These stations already have 4G coverage, and 4G and 5G is set to be switched on at various additional sta
  
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• US ecommerce sales topped $1 trillion for the first time last year

  01-02-2023 11:14
  Economic headwinds and a post-pandemic comedown haven’t stopped people from shopping online, according to ComScore.
  Quite the opposite, in fact. According to stats published this week by audience measurement firm ComScore, 2022 was a record year for ecommerce transactions in the US, with total value exceeding $1 trillion for the very first time.
  “At the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, digital commerce was at $705.4 billion. A year later, it hit $904.3 billion, and this year we&rsq
  
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• London Underground themed trainers from Mallet London

  01-02-2023 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Trainers embossed with the London Underground map and roundel have been launched today by Mallet London – a shoe company founded by the reality TV personality, Tommy Mallet.Both the black and white colour options feature the schematic illustration of the network, the black in reflective silver, and the white coming in a tonal whiteout upper. Each pair of shoes comes with Mallet and TfL branded keychains, embossed collaborative heels and a lace shroud that doubles as a cardholder.
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• BT cloud migration rumbles on with Kyndryl

  01-02-2023 10:00
  UK incumbent BT has kicked off its latest cloud-migration programme as part of its ongoing digital transformation.
  The telco is working with Kyndryl to move a number of applications servicing its legacy copper business and consumer broadband products from mainframe computers to the cloud. BT said these are critical applications that cannot be shut down in the short term. However, it would prefer not to have to maintain its creaking big iron either, so it is embarking on an ambitious plan to tran
  
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• Vodafone ‘can do better’, admits chief

  01-02-2023 09:33
  Margherita Della Valle says action taken to improve group’s performance
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Thornhill Gardens, N1

  01-02-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a nice pocket park in Islington cared for by an active local community group, but also a link to a grisly unsolved murder.The gardens and the land around them were originally owned by Thomas Thornhill in the 19th-century, who developed it for housing. The land where the garden is was at the time used as a commercial market garden nursery, and put up for sale by the freeholder, Thomas Thornhill in October 1887, being offered to the Islington Vestry for a “moderate price”.
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