Streamroot, a specialist in hybrid OTT video delivery, has entered into a global reseller agreement with GlobalDots, a web performance, cloud optimisation and cloud security system integrator. Through this agreement, GlobalDots becomes a worldwide reseller of Streamroot’s industry-leading peer-accelerated delivery technology. It allows existing and new GlobalDots customers to use Streamroot’s peer-to-peer solution as a […]

The boss of BT’s Continental European operation, Corrado Sciolla, is set to resign as the telco is forced to write down £530 million (€615m) after years of “inappropriate behaviour” in the Italian subsidiary. BT’s shares plunged 18 per cent – the biggest fall ever – after revealing the Italian scandal would cost far more than […]

Following the receipt of the necessary regulatory clearances and the approval of its shareholders, Liberty Media has completed its acquisition of Formula 1. F1 has appointed Chase Carey as Chief Executive Officer of F1, in addition to his existing role as Chairman, and Bernie Ecclestone as Chairman Emeritus of F1. Ecclestone, who has given valuable […]

A surgical dissection of SpaceX’s recent suggestions that it could be generating $30 billion (€27.9bn) in annual revenues flowing from its projected constellation of 4400 satellites are “too optimistic no matter what assumptions are made and could stoke unrealistic expectations undermining the industry’s credibility,” according to a blunt analysis by specialists at Northern Sky Research […]

Research commissioned by techUK – which represents 900 tech companies – reveals that British employers in digitally intensive industries are particularly reliant on overseas talent, with 45 per cent of recent vacancies filled by foreign-born workers. In software and computer services, nearly

SES’s senior management have been on a series of financial road shows these past few days and the results are now emerging in the form of advice to clients from equity analysts at the investment banks. One, Macquarie , in a very bullish report, says that last year’s addition of speciality satellite operator O3b fully […]

Toulouse, France-based Airbus Defence & Space is completing work on Eutelsat’s 172B satellite, which it says is Europe’s first-ever high-power all-electric satellite to be built in Europe. It will shortly be shipped to Kourou in French Guiana for launch in April. Eutelsat 172B breaks new ground for Europe as the first high-power satellite in the […]