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...Large utility, telecommunications, energy and technology groups are selling off assets to private buyers to bolster profits, fuelling what KKR expects to be trillions of dollars in investment opportunities...
...of telecommunications group Brightspeed....
...Barclays has named Morgan Stanley’s Pedro Costa as Americas vice-chair of technology, media and telecommunications M&A, based in New York. Alan Joyce is to step down early as CEO of Qantas....
...Telecommunications networks are one of the sectors over which Rome has the broadest oversight....
...Linklaters has hired Nick Roudev as technology, media and telecommunications counsel in Dubai. He joins from Simmons & Simmons....
...Brunswick Group has hired former Teneo managing director Paul Durman as a partner in its technology, media and telecommunications group and former head of Royal Dutch Shell’s communications team Alex Burnett...
...It includes telecommunications, robotics, software and financial technology as possibilities. Take that with a pinch of salt though....
...Carlyle has invested over $16bn in 193 technology, media and telecommunications assets since it was founded....
...He added that Jio could “fit well” into the sovereign wealth fund’s technology portfolio. Over the past month, Reliance has attracted almost $9bn of investment from a string of top US investors....
...It is considering plans to raise a $300m Technology, Media and Telecommunications fund for Asia, according to people familiar with the matter, supplementing its $9.3bn Asia buyout fund — one of the region...
...The US private equity group said on Wednesday that it beat its original target of $5bn, and will focus on the consumer and retail, financial services, telecommunications, media and technology, healthcare...
...In December 2016 it raised $711m for the KKR Next Generation Technology Growth Fund, which is focused on growth equity investments in the technology, media and telecommunications sector in North America,...
...The S&P 500 information technology index is up 33.5 per cent for the year to date....
...The continued turnround at its US wireless carrier Sprint was a bright spot for SoftBank in its first quarter earnings, although lower income from its Japanese telecommunications unit and a loss at processor-maker...
...Japan’s Topix index was 0.4 per cent lower as the telecommunications sector fell 0.9 per cent after SoftBank slipped 1.2 per cent after the company reported first quarter earnings in line with estimates....
World’s biggest PC maker has record market share, but faces ‘sizeable’ challenges
...Like the semiconductor and telecommunications industries, which have done… fine, we guess. And, um, the auto industry. But hey, look at this pretty chart! More in the usual place....
...The Silicon Valley-based company — which is in talks with buyers including telecommunications group Verizon — has created a new portfolio of patents called Excalibur LLC....
...He evoked Metcalfe’s law, which states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users in the system....
...Henrik Kraft, head of KKR Europe’s technology and telecommunications team, said: “Our investment in Versatel has been driven by the conviction that the data revolution creates a large structural investment...
...Global M&A activity has been dominated by the telecommunications, media and technology industry in 2014, with $174bn of transactions in the first three months of the year – about a third of the overall deal...
...This is one that has “exploded the notion that expansive communications technologies and economic interdependence were fostering a kind of grand bargain.”...
...The technology group under pressure from Dan Loeb said that it will sell its Vaio PC unit, spin off its TV division and shed 5,000 jobs....
...The sanctions, according to industry executives, would require US energy companies to apply for licences for exporting technology to Russia....
...“This would apply to businesses, communication networks and telecommunication companies that operate in Brazil.”...
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