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India's Vodafone India and Idea Cellular have announced they have completed their $23 billion merger into Vodafone Idea Limited.

The combined company has appointed former Vodafone India COO Balesh Sharma as its first CEO. Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of the former Idea Cellular's majority owner the Aditya Birla Group, has meanwhile been named chairman of the new company.

With…

Global network-as-a-service provider Megaport has secured a contract to provide SDN-enabled, elastic interconnection and cloud exchange services for ST Telemedia Global Data Centres' STT Tai Seng 1 data center in Singapore.

Utilising Megaport, STT GDC plans to provide enterprise customers with networking capabilities with rapid provisioning on a pay-as-you-go basis. Customers will be…

This paper analyzes two business practices on the mobile internet market, paid prioritization and zero-rating. Both violate the principle of net neutrality by allowing the internet service provider to discriminate different content types. In recent years these practices have attracted considerable media attention and regulatory interest. The EU, and until recently the US have banned paid…

This paper is an attempt to examine the extent to which availability and quality of real estate information is influencing the working of real estate markets in Africa. It delves in the discourse of blockchains as applies to real estate market and makes case for the need to steer streamlined development of housing information systems in real estate markets. It is based on a contracted research…

One of the most relevant and exciting issues in the latest decades in economics had been the asymmetric information and uncertainty, and their effects on market processes and efficiency. Some studies show that markets where information problems or/and uncertainty arise tend to be “networked”, and some studies propose that use of social networks can mitigate adverse selection and moral hazard…