A recap of the six largest cybersecurity deals in the first half of the year; gender imbalances persist at MWC; and FTC files a monopoly complaint against Broadcom.

Google plans to activate 15 edge zones across the U.S.; HPE acquired Ampool; and analysts at MWC Barcelona say 5G hasn't lived up to its promise.

The first six months of 2021 saw CEO shakeups at Amazon, Intel, VMware, and Exabeam.

Ericsson’s private 5G offering now comes in basic and customizable options; 5G service pushes center on AI and security; and MWC's top three mobile threat takeaways.

Deutsche Telekom activated its “O-RAN Town;” Cisco closed its Kenna Security acquisition; and June’s hirings, firings, and retirings shook up industry exec teams.

Intel appointed Greg Lavender as CTO; Exabeam's valuation increased to $2.4 billion after hiring a new CEO; and StackPath appointed Keith Wilson as CFO.

Microsoft exec says the lack of carbon regulations represents a market failure; Facebook sees no silver bullet for its connectivity challenges; and Intel and Apple will use TSMC's 3-nanometer

The lack of carbon regulations represents a “fundamental market failure,” according to Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Officer Lucas Joppa.

AT&T sold its Network Cloud technology to Microsoft; Intel delayed its next-gen data center chips; and the Ransomware Task Force received a $450,000 donation.

Cisco hired Stephen Augustus as its first head of open source; CEOs of Nvidia and Arm discussed their merger; and Cisco released IoT edge routers.

IBM added Kestrel to the Open Cybersecurity Alliance; Nvidia and Google opened a 5G AI lab to unveil a new supercomputer; and AWS' incoming CEO made his debut at

5G and SASE can help managed service providers drive revenues; European telecom CEOs kicked off MWC Barcelona; and “tectonic forces” are shaping the future of telecom.

Amazon Web Services remained the largest infrastructure-as-a-service provider in 2020, but Microsoft, Alibaba, Google, and Huawei gained traction in the growing IaaS market.

Vodafone confirmed 100% renewable energy usage in Europe beginning July 1; Nutanix’s CEO eyes a $61B market opportunity; and Dell’s Omnia automates HPC.

Vodafone has met its goal of achieving 100% renewable energy sources for its European operations — a crucial move toward the carrier's goal of net-zero emissions by 2040.

Chip shortages may thwart the recovering campus switching market; Nokia releases massive MIMO 5G radios; and Rakuten links Cisco's Acacia pluggable optics to 5G SA core.

Arm announced technical specifications for its Confidential Compute Architecture; Illumio reached a $2.75 billion valuation; and ONF shared three branches of its private network project.

Carbon offsets help companies retroactively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but Cisco focuses on more preventative methods of carbon emissions reduction.

Cato launches its new managed detection and response platform; Red Hat reveals an open RAN bridge for 5G operators; and T-Mobile expands its 5G coverage to 150 million people.

Red Hat is using two variants of Intel’s Smart Edge in OpenShift; Ericsson teases late 2022 mid-band vRAN support; and Splunk security cloud adds threat intel and automated responses.

Dish plans to run Nokia’s 5G software on AWS; Nvidia, Arm CEOs talk about their troubled merger; and HPE buys Determined AI.

Rural carriers need time to replace Huawei, ZTE gear; Cisco unveils power-packed IoT edge routers; Google SLSA, Linux Foundation drops SBOM for supply chain security.

KDDI expects to yield a 70% reduction in baseband cooling system energy consumption compared to traditional gas coolant based air-cooling systems.

Are AWS, Google, and Microsoft's telco software flawed?; Oracle's Ellison keeps pressure on SAP; Dish buys into Dell’s full telecom kit.