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Apple and Google are the subjects of an investigation under the UK competition watchdog’s new digital markets competition regime, with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) probing its dominance in the mobile market. -
First, there was deep learning, which was quickly replaced by generative AI. Then foundational or to some, frontier AI became THE buzzword. Then multimodal AI. Now, it’s the turn of agentic AI.
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Google has expanded its AI tools to all Workspace Business and Enterprise applications at no extra cost — though plan prices have increased.
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Google Cloud has appointed Maureen Costello as VP for the United Kingdom and Ireland (UKI) and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Intersect Power, a US-based clean energy provider, has penned partnerships with Google and TPG Rise Climate (TPG) to supply power and storage solutions for data centres.
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Google has unveiled its latest quantum computing chip, Willow, a next-generation hardware unit that dramatically reduces quantum computational errors and can perform complex calculations exponentially faster than classical supercomputers.
Forthcoming events
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As the demand for data and cloud services rises, major tech companies and infrastructure providers are reshaping the future of data centers via cutting-edge innovations.
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Google has hit the reset button on its US$200 million data centre project in Santiago, Chile, after environmental concerns, mainly around water usage.
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Google’s 2024 environment report revealed that the tech giant’s green house gas (GHG) emissions rose by 13% year over year in 2023, while scope 2 emissions rose by 37%.
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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Google Cloud have expanded their strategic alliance to accelerate Indosat’s transformation to an AI-native ‘TechCo’.
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Google has completed its fourth data centre in Singapore.
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Google is set to invest $2 billion in its first Malaysian data centre as South East Asia continues to see an influx of investment by tech giants.
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Google has announced the first ever fibre optic route to directly connect Africa with Australia.
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Plans for Google’s Honomoana cable, announced as part of its Pacific Connect initiative, have been expanded to connect New Zealand and add an additional landing station in Australia.
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Google has announced a $1billion investment to expand its Central Pacific Connect Initiative, which includes delivering two new subsea cables, Proa and Taihei.
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Lanre Kolade, the CEO of the company that manages the Equiano cable landing station in Lome, Togo, tells Capacity that his firm is providing an additional 300G since the faults to other cables serving West Africa.
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Four submarine cables running along the coast of West Africa have been damaged or are experiencing downtime, leading to internet outages in numerous countries across the region.
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Kyndryl has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to develop ‘responsible’ generative AI solutions and to accelerate adoption among customers.
Forthcoming events
Datacloud Asia 2025 co-located with ITW Asia
3 DECEMBER - 4 DECEMBER 2025 Singapore, Singapore
