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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline The U.K. government on Friday announced a fresh wave of sanctions targeting the friends and family of Vladimir Putin, who Westminster claims are funding the Russian president’s “lavish lifestyle,” as countries continue to crack down on Russia’s elite over its invasion of Ukraine. Key Facts The sanctions mean asset freezes and travel bans will be imposed on seven family members and five “confidants and loyal supporters” that function as a “wallet… funding Putin’s lavish lifestyle,” the Foreign Office said in a statement. Members of Putin’s family sanctioned include his ex-wife Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, a series of cousins in prominent business positions and Alina Kabaeva, a former Olympic gymnast turned media executive widely presumed to be his clandestine partner. Kabaeva’s grandmother, Anna Zatseplina, has also been targeted. Bank executive Mikhail Klishin, oil executive Yuri Shamalov and … [Read more...] about U.K. Sanctions Putin’s ‘Shady’ Network Of Family And Friends—Including Rumored Girlfriend

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The pandemic has exposed inequality of those who lack broadband, connected devices and digital skills to work, learn, and receive healthcare online. Policy research has emerged to study why broadband infrastructure and adoption shortfalls remain in a multi-trillion market. The short answer is a lack of business models. More largely, broadband policy has been slow to evolve, and the largest and richest internet platforms have lobbied to insulate themselves from financial obligations for universal access. Admittedly the notions of universal access differ across time and country and can be addressed in different ways. Presently the costs of connectivity are borne by end users and broadband providers, and yet, a class of companies profit disproportionately from the internet but do not contribute to the cost recovery of middle and last mile networks. Notably tech companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and … [Read more...] about The Growing Global Movement For Fair Cost Recovery On Broadband Networks

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin If you are networking company, a cloud network, or a content delivery network (CDN), you are probably watching Cloudflare very carefully. The rapid expansion of the company’s business model shows how fast traditional networking and technology functions are being subsumed into the cloud. In a recent earnings release, the company completed another solid quarter of growth driving its stock price back toward new highs. Revenue in the three months ended in March rose 51%, year over year, to $138.1 million. The company is almost at the breakeven line on profits, as it continues to invest in new growth. The company’s network is located in 200+ cities and it has more than four million free and paying customers. From 2018 through 2020, it had a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 50%, reaching $431 million in revenue in 2020. This should serve as a vision, or a warning, for what is to come. Cloudflare has taken the CDN model, … [Read more...] about Cloudflare’s Manic Growth Hints at The Future of Cloud Networks

Wisconsin beating Minnesota 71-69 Sunday night set a Big Ten Network TV viewership record. According to a Tuesday afternoon release from the network, 693,272 people watched the Badgers beat the Gophers in Madison. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football) It’s officially the most watched game in the history of the Big Ten Network. It was a record breaking March 1 for men’s basketball ratings on BTN ???? Details: https://t.co/aQiCI0HNDR pic.twitter.com/4Bdzhf8QBe — Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) March 3, 2020 Do we think people like their college basketball ? I think the answer to that is an overwhelming yes. The game Sunday night had huge March Madness implications, and people tuned in. The fact that just under 700,000 people watched a Sunday night game on BTN just goes to show that people love basketball, especially in March. It also goes to show that people have stuck with this Wisconsin … [Read more...] about Wisconsin Beating Minnesota Sets A Big Ten Network TV Viewership Record

Success, we're often told, is largely about whom you know. Make the right connections and you're halfway to getting wherever it is you want to go. That's why so many ambitious professionals spend so much time networking , building relationships, and collecting online connections. But what if all the effort you put into meeting and staying in touch with people is actually making you less likely to be successful? That's what the Community Company's CEO, Scott Gerber, argues in a thought-provoking recent HBR blog post . Why 5 Beats 50 It's not that Gerber disagrees about the importance of relationships. If anything, he is even more convinced of their centrality to success than the average person. It's just that Gerber believes most of us go about cultivating and leveraging relationships all wrong. "We live in a time when 'bigger is better' is the prevailing assumption when it comes to, well, just about anything. So it's only natural for us to want to … [Read more...] about Why You Should Worry Less About Your Network and More About Your Inner Circle

- A + A (May 18): Last month, after Elon Musk said he would acquire Twitter Inc, a Finnish cryptocurrency developer named Stani Kulechov tweeted a joke saying he was selected as Twitter’s interim chief executive officer. Then Twitter briefly suspended his account. On Wednesday, Kulechov will deliver his response: He built a rival social network based on blockchain technology, which will become available for anyone to access for the first time. The network, Lens Protocol, allows people to post and follow but differs from Twitter in a major way: Each piece of content is associated with nonfungible token, giving the creator ownership over their posts, said Kulechov, the founder and CEO of the London-based startup Aave. Musk and the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey have expressed interest in creating a more decentralized Twitter and open-sourcing its algorithm. Musk has also raised doubts about whether he will even go through with the acquisition, citing concerns about … [Read more...] about Twitter suspended his account. Then he launched a rival network

Demonstrating emotions of sadness, distress or even anguish on social networks is enabling some influencers to lure viewers to their content and even to attract new followers. This trend has been given the term 'sadfishing,' and the phenomenon is such that it has given birth to a new filter on Snapchat: the crying face. Bella Hadid made news last November after posting a lengthy post on Instagram about her unhappiness, accompanied by several selfies featuring her eyes reddened with tears. The objective? To remind her community that "social networks are not reality," in other words that her supposed dream life does not exempt her, like everyone else, from feeling bad. Reactions came in fast: 2.5 million likes, and nearly 23,000 comments. If the influencer with 50 million subscribers was probably not looking for such engagement – because she doesn't need it – it's interesting to note that this post had much more success than her previous ones - and the ones that followed. Seeking a … [Read more...] about What is sadfishing, the trend flooding social networks with tears?

KUALA LUMPUR: The rollout of the fifth-generation mobile network (5G) via single wholesale network (SWN) through Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) will enable the people to enjoy cheaper 5G service. Communications and Multimedia Minister (MenKOMM) Tan Sri Annuar Musa (pic) said this is because only one company would be involved in providing infrastructure while telecommunications companies would focus on providing the service. "The 5G service needs many towers...imagine if each company builds its own towers in Kuala Lumpur, the city will be full of towers when we only need a single highway which is more efficient with no overlapping and better managed while the concept of SWN, DNB is not to create a monopoly. "The government also agreed to make a 70 per cent modification (DNB equity holding by telecommunication companies). However there is only one platform which is DNB managing infrastructure to keep the cost low and we hope the people would receive 5G service at a lower … [Read more...] about 5G rollout with single wholesale network will keep rate lower, says Annuar

KUALA LUMPUR: Mobile network operators (MNOs) are still at the discussion stage with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) regarding the 5G reference access offer (RAO), which dictates the contractual terms for 5G technology. In a joint statement today, Celcom Axiata Bhd, Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd, Maxis Bhd and U Mobile Sdn Bhd said they have yet to agree to key terms in the RAO recently published by Digital Nasional Bhd (DNB). The MNOs added that reaching an agreement with DNB and MCMC on the matter is key before discussions on commercial access agreements can begin. "To that end, the MNOs remain in discussion with MCMC to seek more clarity on some of the details in the published RAO. "The MNOs are of the view that a majority of concerns and issues previously raised and discussed with MCMC and DNB have not yet been adequately addressed in the current document, including key principles proposed for the RAO to be consistent with industry best … [Read more...] about Network operators still in talks with MCMC over 5G contractual terms

- A + A (May 20): Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government joined Canada’s closest intelligence allies in banning Huawei Technologies Co. from fifth-generation wireless networks. The Chinese state-championed telecommunications firm poses a threat to Canada’s national security, Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said Thursday, confirming an earlier Bloomberg News report. ZTE Corp. equipment will also be prohibited. Firms that already have Huawei or ZTE gear installed will have to remove it by the end of 2027, Champagne’s department said in a statement. Trudeau’s government had delayed the decision for more than three years, as relations between Canada and China deteriorated, and a ban would almost certainly stoke tensions. The long-awaited announcement will be welcomed by President Joe Biden’s administration, which has sought to steer countries away from Huawei. American officials allege its gear could allow the Chinese government to interfere with 5G … [Read more...] about Canada bans China’s Huawei, ZTE from 5G wireless networks