Liberty Global’s Virgin Media agrees US$3.4bn loan as Ziggo inks €100m facility
Cable giant Liberty Global’s UK and Ireland unit Virgin Media and Dutch unit Ziggo have secured loans of US$3.4bn and €100m ...
Month: December 2016
RCom sheds towers to achieve asset-light growth strategy
India’s Reliance Communications has agreed to sell a 51% stake in its tower company for US$1.6bn, helping the debt-strapped firm shore up ...
Altice sells Belgium and Luxembourg business to Telenet in rare disposal
French billionaire Patrick Drahi’s Altice has sold its telecoms business in Belgium and Luxembourg to local cableco Telenet in a €400m (US$418m) deal to ...
Swiss Space Systems declared bankrupt to become the latest smallsat launcher to hit financial difficulties
Swiss Space Systems has gone bust less than four years after opening its doors, derailing plans to provide smallsat launches ...
GomSpace Q&A: A global perspective
Newspace startups on the Pacific coast of the US are generally seen as leading the way in nanosatellite technology, but ...
Special Report: An intangible future
Huge volumes of IP and patents are generated within the space industry as the technology required to design the instruments ...
Vocus hires Mark Wratten as CFO
Australian ISP Vocus Communications has appointed Mark Wratten as its new CFO following Rick Correll’s resignation in September. Wratten, who was CFO of Recall ...
TDK snaps up InvenSense for US$1.33bn in latest chipmaker M&A deal
Japanese electronics maker TDK has agreed to buy US semiconductor firm InvenSense, which supplies sensors to smartphone makers including Apple and Samsung, ...
Orange in €6bn refi as Canal+ speculation continues
French incumbent telco Orange has signed a multi-currency €6bn (US$6.3bn) syndicated revolving credit facility with 24 international banks to refinance an existing ...
RUAG buys cyber security specialist Clearswift
Switzerland’s RUAG has acquired British software firm Clearswift in the latest cyber security investment by an aerospace and defence company. The acquisition from private equity firm Lyceum ...
