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Lenovo is once again restructuring its operations, this time to create two new business groups devoted to its enterprise products and to developing a software ecosystem.
A few days after announcing its plan to buy IBM's x86 server business, the Chinese company is dividing its operations into four business groups, with the other two centered around its PCs and mobile products, Lenovo said on Tuesday.
The restructuring aims to create "new businesses and new pillars" for a company that makes most of its revenue from PCs. The new enterprise group is intended to become a profit engine for the company, Lenovo added. In addition, the company's new "Ecosystem and Cloud Services" group will develop strategies to monetize company services.
The changes go into effect on April 1.
Lenovo has risen to become the world's largest PC maker, riding high from sales in its home market. But as PC demand continues to decline, the company has been developing mobile products, becoming a major smartphone vendor in China, and is bolstering its enterprise business.
Last Thursday, the company announced it would spend US$2.3 billion to buy IBM's x86 server business. If completed, the deal will boost Lenovo's credibility in the enterprise market, according to analysts.
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Following on from reports earlier this week that claimed Vodafone Group is considering the acquisition of Grupo Corporativo ONO, Reuters reports that the UK-based company could face competition from Liberty Global in the race for the Spanish cableco.
Citing two unnamed people familiar with the situation, it has been claimed that Investment funds Providence Equity Partners, Thomas H. Lee Partners, CCMP Capital Advisors, and Quadrangle Capital, which together own a combined 54% stake in ONO, are holding ongoing talks with both Vodafone and Liberty Global.
However, with ONO still examining its options for an initial public offering (IPO), and with suggestions that the cableco has enterprise value of EUR7.1 billion (USD9.8 billon), one banking source was cited as saying that the suitors could have to come in with a bid between ten and twelve times that amount should they want to win out over the plan to list the company.
A1 Telekom Austria has announced that it has used its newly acquired 800MHz spectrum to extend its Long Term Evolution (LTE) coverage to 200 locations across the country, including a number of rural regions never previously covered by its 3G network. A1 says that the deployment programme means that around 45% of the population are now covered by its 4G network.
According to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database, A1 acquired 2×20MHz blocks of 800MHz spectrum in the Telekom Control Commission’s (TKK’s) ‘combinatory clock’ auction in October 2013. In addition, the telco snagged 2×15MHz blocks of 900MHz frequencies and 2×35MHz blocks of 1800MHz spectrum, paying a total of EUR1.03 billion (USD1.41 billion) for the bandwidth.
Facebook is a great utility if you want to stay in touch with friends and family, share photos, and see what other people are up to in their lives.
It’s free to use, of course, but that doesn’t mean it comes without a price. If you’re using Facebook, you’re giving the company a ton of information about yourself which it is selling to advertisers in one form or another.
And most people forget that when they download or sign up for an app or website using their Facebook login, that they’re giving those companies a direct look into their Facebook profiles and some of their personal data. That can often include your email address and phone number, but frequently also your current location.
If you’re worried about your privacy, you can do two things: Opt out of ad tracking and — and this is sometimes rather alarming if you haven’t done it in a while — look up the list of app companies that are logged in to your Facebook account.
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Asia is solidifying its place as the world's epicenter for top-speed Internet access, according to the latest research from Akamai Technologies expected to be published later today.
The top four places, ranked by their average peak connection speeds, were in Asia. Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Singapore had the speediest broadband, in that order, according to the study that looked at traffic flowing through Akamai's global network from July through September. With Taiwan ranking No. 8, regions or countries in Asia made up half of the top 10.
Nearly all of the major Asia-Pacific markets tracked by Akamai improved their peak connection speeds by at least 12 percent compared with the previous year. Indonesia was the only one that dropped — a 30 percent decrease year-over-year to 9.7 megabits per second, putting the country at 115th on the list. India is the only major market in Asia that came in behind Indonesia, with an average peak speed of 9 Mbps. China's 11.3 Mbps average wasn't enough to break into the top 100, either.
People in Asia are certainly taking advantage of the fast connections. Singapore, Japan and South Korea were among the top five countries with the highest mobile-broadband penetration in 2012, according to a report from the International Telecommunication Union, an agency of the United Nations. Each of those countries exceeded 100 mobile-data connections per 100 inhabitants, which suggests people are using multiple connected devices.
The concentration of high-speed Internet in Asia could have positive economic effects that reverberate throughout the region.
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Tesla Motor's network of fast-charging stations for its luxury all-electric sedans now covers a route from Los Angeles to New York.
CEO Elon Musk made the announcement via Twitter over the weekend, saying 80 percent of the U.S. population is covered by its so-called Superchargers. His message via Twitter:
Tesla Supercharger network now energized from New York to LA, both coast + Texas! Approx 80% of US population covered.
Musk later tweeted that he will complete the LA to New York trek as a family road trip over spring break.
Tesla's 120 kilowatt superchargers, which only work with the Tesla Model S, provide half a charge in as little as 20 minutes. The chargers work by delivering direct current power to the battery using special cables that bypass onboard charging equipment. And using them is free for all Tesla Model S owners.
In October, when a corridor of Tesla Supercharger DC fast-charging stations was completed along Interstate 5 and U.S. Highway 101, there were about 31 stations in North America. Today, there are 73 stations in North America, according to the company's website.
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We've mentioned in the past that, for all the focus on the NSA lately, the FBI may be equally, if not more, worrisome for its willingness to collect tons of data on everyone and use it. Back in August, it became pretty clear that the FBI had compromised the Tor Browser Bundle, and had effectively taken over Freedom Hosting -- a popular hosting provider for dark web tor sites -- in order to push out malware that identified Tor users. A month later, it was confirmed that it was the FBI behind the effort, which led to the closing of Freedom Hosting.
Now there are new reports, suggesting that along with Freedom Hosting, the FBI was able to get the full database of emails on TorMail, a popular tor-based email service that used Freedom Hosting and was shut down at the same time Freedom Hosting went down. The reports point to a new lawsuit, in which the FBI was able to get a search warrant to search TorMail using its own copy of the database -- which it clearly had obtained at an earlier date. This basically means that the FBI has a pretty easy time searching all those emails if it needs to:
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Tesla Motors Inc.’s Elon Musk said sales of electric Model S cars in China should match U.S. levels as early as next year, with demand from the world’s largest auto market eventually requiring a local plant.
The electric-car maker said yesterday the Model S will be priced from 734,000 yuan ($121,280) in China when deliveries begin. Musk, Tesla’s billionaire co-founder and chief executive officer, will travel to China in late March to inaugurate the company’s entry there, he said in a phone interview.
For Tesla, “it could be as big as the U.S. market, maybe bigger. I don’t want to get overexcited about it,” Musk said yesterday. “Even without building there locally, it’s always going to be the second-biggest market after the U.S.”
After a rocky start ramping up Model S assembly in 2012, Palo Alto, California-based Tesla surprised analysts and investors this month when it said fourth-quarter deliveries were 20 percent above its target. Musk, 42, has pinned his goal of selling hundreds of thousands of electric autos annually to a global strategy in which China, Europe, Japan and other markets bolster its U.S. business.
If all goes well, Model S shipments to China can match U.S. sales by 2015, Musk said. “It’s not my firm prediction -- it’s more like a low-fidelity guess.”
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Cape Town - Wi-Fi represents the most cost-effective means of connecting people to the internet, an NGO has said.
Unlike 3G mobile networks, Wi-Fi is cheap and easy to deploy, giving people access to the internet, Project Isizwe told delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
"If bandwidth is like water, then Africa is a desert with Perrier vending machines everywhere. If you have money, you're fine. If you don't have money, you're dying of thirst," said Alan Knott Craig jnr, the brains behind the project.
Knott Craig, serial entrepreneur and formerly CEO of social network Mxit, said that despite massive penetration of cellphones in Africa, fewer than 10% used the internet.
According to the GSM Association's Sub-Saharan Mobile Economy report of 2013, the deployment of 3G services is at 7.6% in the region, far below the global average for developing markets of 17.3%.
In SA though, the deployment of 3G is 39.3%, but Knott Craig said that relatively few subscribers would be able to afford the data traffic on these services.
"The problem is that 3G is expensive. Why? Because it's a proprietary technology that requires huge capital expenditure and detailed planning, which in turn requires deep pockets and significant human resources. Add a mark-up and you have amongst the most expensive data costs on the planet."
The GSMA said that even though mobile phone penetration in high on the basis of the number of SIM cards in circulation, the real rate of unique subscribers was much lower than the number suggested.
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UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has launched a public consultation relating to proposed charge controls for IPStream Connect Max and Max Premium in those areas of the country where there are two or less principle broadband operators.
This follows an earlier consultation, published in July last year, which among other things outlined suggested changes to market definitions, with the number of defined markets falling from four to three: Market A (only one or two broadband providers present – 9.6% of premises in the UK, predominantly rural areas); Market B (three or more ISPs present – 89.7% of premises); and the Hull area (KCOM is the sole provider – 0.7% of UK premises).
Ofcom says the whole of Market B would be unregulated as there is already effective competition which ensures that prices for end users are determined by market forces.
With the charge controls in the latest consultation relating to Market A, where Ofcom has also proposed that incumbent BT be labelled as having significant market power (SMP), the watchdog said the purpose of the latest call for feedback is to ‘seek stakeholders’ views on revised and new proposals on the charge control, which have come about following the publication of BT’s latest Regulatory Financial Statements (2013 RFS) and have resulted in a significant change to the range of X that we consulted upon in our 2013 WBA Consultation’.
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British supermarket giant Tesco is reportedly preparing to offer budget-priced fiber broadband service to shoppers, according to ISPreview, which discovered the offer on a hidden web page.
Customers will be offered unlimited use 38Mbps entry-level service for around $12.50 a month for the first six months, and $25 a month thereafter. A one time charge of $83 applies unless customers enroll in an 18-month contract. A fiber activation fee of $75 also applies. A wireless router is provided for free after a $8.25 shipping and handling fee.
Tesco frequent shopper Clubcard members will also earn points good for shopping discounts when subscribed to Tesco’s broadband service, which effectively further reduces its monthly cost.
Unfortunately, existing Tesco broadband and home phone customers will not be eligible for the fiber promotion.
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Ipswich is one of the best places to live in the UK, according to a highly-respected new report published today.
It has one of the highest employment rates in the country, is one of the fastest-growing and greenest towns in the country, and has some of the fastest broadband links in the country.
And, to top it all, people who live in Ipswich are becoming happier with their lot than those in any other place nationwide... apart from Aldershot!
The rosy picture is painted in the Cities Outlook report by the Centre for Cities think tank.
The report looks at the economic and social prospects of 64 cities and towns across the UK – and especially their relationships with London, which dominates the economic life of the country.
Ipswich is one of the smallest towns in the survey – and it doesn’t come out so well in every category.
It has one of the lowest rates in the country for GCSE results and one of the smallest manufacturing sectors, a far cry when the town was known for what it made during the heyday of Ransomes, Cranes, and Ransomes and Rapier.
However, altogether there is a very positive message for Ipswich in this report, a fact that was not missed by the two men who will be slugging it out during the next general election campaign.
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Less than a year after raising $1.5 million for his Bitcoin exchange start-up BitInstant, CEO Charlie Shrem has been charged with money laundering. A news release from U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan said that Shrem knowingly facilitated illegal purchases on the now-shuttered underground drug marketplace Silk Road.
Silk Road was a Web site that allowed users to buy everything from heroin to fake IDs. To help preserve users' anonymity, the site required all transactions to be conducted in bitcoins. According to the government, a man named Robert Faiella worked with Shrem to sell bitcoins to Silk Road users. The two men allegedly sold more than $1 million worth, with Shrem giving Faiella a volume discount on BitInstant's fees.
"Upon receiving orders for Bitcoins from Silk Road users," the government said, Faiella filled the orders through BitInstant, which "was designed to enable customers to exchange cash for Bitcoins anonymously, that is, without providing any personal identifying information, and it charged a fee for its service."
According to the government, that runs afoul of U.S. money laundering laws, which require payment companies like BitInstant to collect information about their customers, monitor their transactions, and report "suspicious" transactions to the government. Shrem failed to do this, the government says. Faiella is also facing charges.
Efforts to reach Shrem or his lawyer for comment were unsuccessful. The charges against Shrem represent the latest setback for BitInstant, which was once a high-flying start-up. Just nine months ago, BitInstant raised $1.5 million from a group led by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, brothers who have earned tens of millions of dollars in profits by investing in bitcoins.
But a few weeks after taking "Winklevii" cash, BitInstant announced it was suspending operations. That triggered a class action lawsuit from BitInstant customers.
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The "fastest ever" broadband speeds have been achieved in a test in London, raising hopes of more efficient data transfer via existing infrastructure.
Alcatel-Lucent and BT said speeds of 1.4 terabits per second were achieved during their joint test - enough to send 44 uncompressed HD films a second.
The test was conducted on a 410km (255-mile) link between the BT Tower in central London and Ipswich.
However, it may be many years before consumers notice any effect.
But the breakthrough is being seen as highly important for internet service providers (ISPs), as it means a greater amount of information can be sent through existing broadband infrastructure, reducing the need for costly upgrades.
"BT and Alcatel-Lucent are making more from what they've got," explained Oliver Johnson, chief executive of broadband analyst firm Point Topic.
"It allows them to increase their capacity without having to spend much more money."
Alcatel-Lucent told the BBC that the demand for higher bandwidth grew by around 35% every year, making the need for more efficient ways to transfer data a massively pressing issue for ISPs, particularly with the growing popularity of data-heavy online services, such as film-streaming website Netflix.
There are faster methods of transmitting data - such as the use of complex laser technology - but this is the first test to achieve such high speeds in "real world" conditions, outside testing labs.
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French telecoms watchdog Arcep has backed a recommendation aimed at strengthening fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network sharing, it has announced. The plans involve a reduction in the number of ‘very high density areas’ and also define appropriate solutions for small buildings (containing fewer than twelve residential or business premises) located within these areas.
With Decision No. 2013-1475, the regulator has decreased the number of very high density areas from 148 municipalities (representing around six million households) to 106 municipalities (or around five and a half million households); these properties are said to represent fewer than 17% of all French households.
The amendment ‘will help facilitate rollouts in the areas concerned, and to provide residential and business customers with a wider selection of services to choose from’.
Arcep adds that affected authorities and operators can sign agreements locally for the programming and monitoring of FTTH rollouts, based on the model drafted as part of France’s super-fast broadband plan. This in turn will allow them to secure investment and provide all public and private sector players with a clear view on upcoming deployments.
They are praying for rain in California. And facing drought. A drought emergency, Governor Jerry Brown declared last week. Worst in years. Winter weather so warm you’ve got a confused bear wandering through skiers on the slopes last week.
So dry that farmers are thinning herds and letting fields go fallow. Wondering which crops to lose. Up in the Sierra Nevada, only 20 percent of the normal snow pack. Less to melt, less to drink. It’s just dry.
This hour On Point: fire, food, climate and the drought emergency in California.
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Brazil’s sinking real and quickening inflation are helping the country’s biggest bitcoin brokerage drum up buyers for the virtual currency.
Rodrigo Batista, president of online brokerage Mercado Bitcoin, said trading volume climbed to 10.5 million reais ($4.4 million) in December from almost zero a year before, growth he attributed in part to the real’s selloff.
Brazil’s real has plunged 9.6 percent in the past three months against the dollar, making it difficult for policy makers to curb inflation despite the world’s biggest borrowing-cost increases. Inflation that accelerated to 5.91 percent in 2013, even after central bank President Alexandre Tombini said it would slow, is adding to Brazilians’ interest in bitcoin, a virtual currency that surged to $1,005 last week on trading platform Mt Gox, up from $15 about a year ago.
“Fear of inflation is a determining factor for some people to take risks on Bitcoin here,” Batista, a former program developer for Morgan Stanley in Brazil, said in a Jan. 22 interview in Sao Paulo. “There are no good investments here with inflation at 6 percent plus high tax rates. If the real continues to weaken a lot, it will also continue to benefit the market.”
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Two years ago, Techdirt reported on a couple of leading Dutch ISPs being ordered to block The Pirate Bay. To their huge credit, they did not take this lying down: they have been fighting it in the courts since, and have just won a major victory against the Dutch "anti-piracy" group BREIN. TorrentFreak has the details:
In its ruling the Court states that the Pirate Bay blockade is disproportionate and ineffective, citing TNO research and the Baywatch report of the University of Amsterdam. As a result, the blockade was found to hinder the Internet providers' entrepreneurial freedoms.
The court based its decision on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which both includes "freedom to conduct a business" and "right to property." In this case the entrepreneurial freedom outweighs property rights, because the blockades are disproportionate and ineffective.
Based on the above, the appeal court overturned the blocking order and ordered the Hollywood-funded anti-piracy group to pay 326,000 euros ($445,000) in legal fees.
That's a great result for a number of reasons.
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Back in November, we reported that the EU and Canada were claiming that "a political agreement" on the key elements of the Canada-EU trade agreement, CETA, had been reached.
One of the supposed reasons why the negotiations were being conducted in secret was that it was "obviously" not possible to release texts while talks were still going on -- even though that is precisely how WIPO operates.
So, now that key parts of the CETA have been agreed upon, presumably the public will finally get to see at least those sections of the text, right? Apparently not, as the Council of Canadians found when it put in a freedom of information request to the Canadian government:
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If it sounds counterintuitive that software giant Microsoft is contributing its server specifications to the Open Compute Project, it shouldn’t.
By doing so, the company hopes that big hardware makers will build servers just like the ones it runs in its huge data centers, and perhaps give it a more efficient supply chain.
A quick recap: Facebook launched the Open Computer Project in 2011, providing the specs for the servers that power its webscale data centers in hopes that the open-source innovation fervor that’s driven software innovation will feed similar breakthroughs in hardware. Subsequently it spun that work out into a multivendor Open Compute Foundation. Directors include executives from Facebook, Intel, Rackspace, Arista Networks and Goldman Sachs (weighing in for the user community.)
“What Facebook’s done is great, but Microsoft — with all its productivity applications, databases, its search engine, (and) its games — fields a broader set of workloads,” said Bill Laing, Microsoft’s corporate VP of server and cloud. “We now run more than a million servers across our data center footprint and learned how to optimizes for those workloads with a focus on saving costs.”
Microsoft’s view also differs from Facebook in that it builds facilities ranging from massive data centers to much smaller edge locations, so the specifications take those differences into account, said Kushagra Vaid, GM of cloud infrastructure server engineering. “The challenge is how to design a common spec that can scale from very big data centers with tens of thousands of servers to small locations with tens to hundreds of servers,” he said.
It behooves Microsoft to do this, even at the risk of irking hardware server vendors; I had visions of HP and Dell execs reacting to Microsoft telling them how to build their gear. But, as Laing reminded me: “we are the customer.” And a customer that buys tens of thousands of servers at a time can write its own ticket in this market.
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U.S. technology companies may give the public and their customers more detail about the court orders they receive related to surveillance under an agreement they reached on Monday with the Obama administration.
Companies such as Google Inc and Microsoft Corp have been prohibited from disclosing even an approximate number of orders they received from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. They could give only an aggregate number of U.S. demands that combined surveillance court orders, letters from the FBI, subpoenas in run-of-the-mill criminal cases and other requests.
The deal frees the companies to say, for example, approximately how many orders they received in a six-month period from the surveillance court.
Apple Inc quickly seized on the agreement to disclose that it had received fewer than 250 demands related to national security during the first six months of 2013 - a number the company previously was barred from giving and that it said was "infinitesimal relative to the hundreds of millions of accounts registered with Apple."
Tech companies have sought to clarify their relationships with U.S. law enforcement and spying agencies since June, when leaks to the news media by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden began to show the depth of U.S. spying capabilities.
President Barack Obama's administration, however, was wary of disclosing data it believed might help suspected militants in other countries avoid surveillance.
The dispute wound up in front of the surveillance court, a secret court in Washington, D.C., that oversees national security investigations. Five companies asked the court to grant them the authority to disclose data about the court orders they receive.
The agreement, which was filed on Monday with the surveillance court, brings an end to the litigation.
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Thanks, but no thanks.
That’s essentially what the operators of the Brayton Point power plant in Somerset said today to electric grid overseer ISO New England, in almost as few words.
EquiPower Resources last fall had told ISO that it was going to shut down New England’s largest coal plant as of mid-2017. ISO responded last month by rejecting that request, saying the roughly 1,500-megawatt plant would be necessary for grid reliability purposes in Southeastern Massachusetts.
It turns out that it’s really EquiPower doing the rejecting, though. ISO’s notice last month to Brayton entitled it to pursue two different forms of additional compensation to keep running. But the folks at EquiPower ran the numbers, and they decided there’s still no way to run a big old coal plant profitably, even with ISO-orchestrated market subsidies, in the face of cheap competition from natural gas.
Sure, coal plants like Brayton’s turbines run more frequently on particularly frigid days. (Of Brayton’s four main turbines, three run exclusively on coal and one runs on either natural gas or oil.) Gas pipeline constraints in New England can prevent the natural gas turbines here from running full tilt when heating customers use too much of the gas. But those wicked cold days don’t occur frequently enough to build a business model around them.
EquiPower was initially supposed to have until June to think this over. But ISO asked for a quicker decision, before ISO’s next auction for electricity capacity payments in February. The answer today was swift, and final: Thanks, but no thanks.
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If the name TransCanada is familiar to you, it may be because they are the corporation behind the as yet unapproved KeystoneXL Pipeline. But the technology is safer than ever, they keep telling us! Yaright. From ThinkProgress.org:
A natural gas pipeline operated by TransCanada Corp. exploded and caught fire in the Canadian province of Manitoba on Saturday, shutting off gas supplies for as many as 4,000 residents in sub-zero temperatures.
“We could see these massive 200- to 300-meter high flames just shooting out of the ground and it literally sounded like a jet plane,” resident Paul Rawluk told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
...in order to repair the line, they shut off the natural gas supply to several municipalities.
Temperatures dropped to -20 degrees Celsius overnight.
Niverville Deputy Mayor John Funk said that “service is expected to be lost for minimum of 24 hours to multiple days” in a statement on the town’s website..."
...a Wall Street Journal analysis released this week found that people discover pipeline spills far more often than the leak-detection technology touted by companies. Based on PHMSA data for 251 pipeline incidents over four years, the WSJ found that nearby residents or company employees were nearly three times as likely to detect a pipeline leak. Leak-detection software, special alarms and 24/7 control room monitoring, on the other hand, discovered leaks just 19.5 percent of the time.
Liberty Global ended months of speculation, agreeing to purchase the remaining interest in Dutch cable operator Ziggo in a cash and stock deal valued at about $13.7 billion.
Liberty , which already owns a 28.5% interest in the Dutch cable company, has been in talks with Ziggo since August. In October, Ziggo rejected a Liberty takeover proposal as “inadequate.”
Liberty will combine its existing Dutch operations – UPC Netherlands – with Ziggo, reaching a combined 7 million homes, with about 4 million unique customers. The deal is expected to close in the second half of this year.
As part of the agreement, which values the Dutch cabler at about 34.53 euros per share ($47.18), Ziggo shareholders will receive 11 euros ($15.03) in cash and the rest in Liberty Global stock.
“This transaction creates a nationwide cable champion that will drive investment and innovation for the benefit of Dutch consumers and businesses alike, said Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries in a statement. “Our combined operations will reach over 90% of all Dutch households allowing us to compete more effectively with the other national telecommunications and satellite platforms in the Netherlands, and at the same time generate significant revenue and operating efficiencies.”
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As public interest in Bitcoin rises, it can sometimes be hard to figure out exactly what local laws apply. Even in the United States, the regulatory structures around Bitcoin are still a matter of debate. But a recently launched Web site, BitLegal, makes it a little easier to navigate.
The site features an interactive map that uses color sorting to categorizing the legal and regulatory situation of Bitcoin -- and provides specific information about basic rights in over three dozen nations, "including every jurisdiction in which a regulatory body has issued guidance on Bitcoin or virtual currencies."
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