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...Equinix and Digital Realty are some of the biggest real estate investment trusts in Europe....
...In December Equinix, a US data centre builder, announced a deal worth $320m to buy MainOne, a large west African operator founded in 2010....
...No wonder Equinix and Digital Realty are battling over the less developed European market....
...The scramble to find such space has benefited companies such as Equinix and Digital Realty Trust, the two largest independent co-located datacentre companies....
...The deal that is expected to close in mid-2017 will bring Equinix’s global footprint to 175 data centres. Shares of Verizon and Equinix were little changed in pre-market trading....
...Already 28 US companies have signed deals to buy wind and solar power, with Google, Amazon, Walmart and Equinix the most active....
...come into their own in cities that lack sizeable expat populations, and linking employee diasporas digitally can help lone secondees feel less isolated, says Tracy Figliola, who heads global mobility at Equinix...
...Still, Equinix shareholders seem underwhelmed by its Telecity play....
...UK data warehouse business Telecity Group has dumped Dutch sweetheart Interxion at the altar and is eloping with hunky US beau Equinix instead....
...Equinix, meanwhile, will enhance its position in the UK, Finland and Italy....
...Cavendish suggested that Equinix may itself look again at the Dutch group....
...Equinix’s hard-driving boss Steve Smith disapproves of that transaction. Well he might. As Milan Radia of Jefferies points out, the deal would confine Equinix to “a distant number two spot in Europe”....
...However, Equinix’s bid may face some antitrust questions, analysts warned....
...Ivan Fong at 3M, Brandi Galvin Morandi at data centre company Equinix and Tim Murphy at MasterCard are three of these lawyers of the future....
...By comparison, Equinix trades on the Nasdaq at about six times 2015 revenues, while Telecity trades on the London Stock Exchange at about six times revenues....
...In the past NYSE has looked to sell its data centres to Equinix, but the parties could not agree on price....
...Shares in Equinix dropped 5.5 per cent to $192.57, while Lamar lost 4.2 per cent to $43.62....
...Equinix, a US data centre provider, made a $125m offer for the site to NYSE Euronext last autumn, and although it was rebuffed, Equinix’s interest remains serious, two people with the situation have said...
...Mr Laffont led the pack by tipping two stocks, Equinix, a datacentre business and Virgin Media, a UK broadband provider that in February agreed to be bought by Liberty Global for $23.3bn....
...Shares in Equinix finished 7.5 per cent higher to $200.50....
...Among those that suffered setbacks at the site were larger companies such as Equinix, the data centre operator....
...Equinix , the global data centre company, climbed 7.5 per cent to $200.50 as its board approved plans to convert the company into a real estate investment trust....
...Around a fifth of Equinix’s $1.6bn revenues comes from financial services. It counts Direct Edge, ICAP, BATS Chi-X Europe and JPMorgan as customers....
...That said, most analysts believe Telecity, Interxion and Equinix will continue to retain an advantage over any upstarts....
...American Tower Corporation, which operates mobile phone towers, may save as much as $400m annually within five years via its conversion to a Reit, while Equinix, a data storage company, expects to save more...
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