A man talks on his phone walks past a Jio store in Mumbai, India, 22 March, 2023. Reliance Jio rolls Out 5G Services in 41 More Cities, Network Now Live in 406 Cities in India according to an Indian media report. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images India’s largest telecom operator and digital services company,…
A man uses his phone as he passes by a signage of Airtel at the India Mobile Congress 2025 in Delhi, India, on October 11, 2025. (Photo by Kabir Jhangiani/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images India’s second-largest telecom company, Bharti Airtel, is doubling down on its Africa and U.K. bets, joining…
The CEO of one of France’s biggest engineering groups told CNBC that Europe mustn’t rely on U.S. infrastructure, warning of “dangerous” over-reliance on infrastructure like Elon Musk‘s Starlink. “There [are] two things for the future where we need [Europe to] realize how big it is. This is AI, and this is satellite,” Bouygues CEO Olivier…
Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk Manuel Orbegozo | Chip Somodevilla | Reuters When SpaceX finally debuts on the Nasdaq, under the ticker symbol SPCX, it will almost certainly set a record for the largest offering ever. By a long shot. Elon Musk’s reusable rocket maker filed its long-awaited IPO…
A Bharti Airtel office building pictured in Gurugram, on the outskirts of New Delhi. Pacific Press | Lightrocket | Getty Images India’s telecom giant Bharti Airtel has raised $1 billion for its data center arm — Nxtra Data — from private equity firms Alpha Wave, Carlyle and Anchorage Capital, underscoring a growing global interest in…
There could be 20% upside for Reliance Industries’ shares, according to Shrikant Chouhan of Kotak Securities. Sheldon Cooper | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images India’s largest business group, Reliance Industries, has been battling geopolitical headwinds in its oil refining and, reportedly, in one of its new energy ventures. But those are not the…
Over 95% of international data and voice call traffic travels through nearly a million miles of underwater communication cables. These cables carry government communications, financial transactions, email, video calls and streaming around the world. The first commercial telecommunication subsea cable was used for telegraphs and was laid across the English Channel between Dover, England and…
Indian visitors talk on their mobile phones outside the Google stall at the India Mobile Congress in New Delhi on Sept. 27, 2017. Prakash Singh | AFP | Getty Images Artificial intelligence companies racing to expand in India are not just chasing customers — they are enlisting millions of users to help train AI models…
The Google AI Studio application is displayed on a mobile phone with Google in the background, in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on October 26, 2025. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Google will offer its Gemini AI service for free to over 500 million Reliance Jio users in India, as global artificial intelligence…
Dan Schulman speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2020. Adam Galica | CNBC Verizon announced on Monday that the board of directors has appointed former PayPal CEO Dan Schulman as the company’s new CEO. Schulman replaces Hans Vestberg, who had led the company since 2018. Shares of the company…
