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• Stripe’s total payment volume increased to AUD 2.2T in 2024, up 38% year-on-year, and equivalent to around 1.3% of global GDP.
• Stripe is now used by half of the Fortune 100, 80% of the Forbes Cloud 100, and 78% of the Forbes AI 50.
• Stripe continues to invest heavily in R&D, including stablecoins and AI, to help companies navigate the evolving business landscape.

COMPANY NEWS: Stripe, the financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today shared that it processed AUD 2.2 trillion in total payment volume in 2024, up 38% from the prior year, and equivalent to around 1.3% of global GDP.

Rogers Communications announced it will partner with Philadelphia-based media and tech company Comcast to improve connectivity services across Canada.

American telecommunications company Comcast announced the expansion of its "Now" branding into two prepaid services: Now Internet and Now Mobile.

GUEST OPINION:  When an outage or disruption occurs, there’s immediate uncertainty as to what happened, where and why. Uncertainty is inevitable in the early stages of any outage while root cause analysis is underway.

Remote monitoring technology provider Kallipr is set to join the 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) in the United States.

American telecommunications company Comcast will use Finnish telecommunications vendor Nokia’s 5G software and support services to deliver connection to Xfinity Mobile and Comcast Business Mobile customers in its service areas across the US.

COMPANY NEWS: Federated Wireless, the leader in shared spectrum and CBRS technology, today announced that it has secured US$58 million in Series D funding. An affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. led the round, with existing investors Allied Minds and GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, also participating.

Comcast announced the successful test of a prototype 10G modem using the core technology that will deliver multigigabit speeds to tens of millions of homes.

Pay TV provider Sky’s launch of Sky Connect B2B gives the company the potential to become a force in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market, according to one analyst firm.

Comcast-owned media and entertainment company NBCUniversal has set in train a practice that could well mark an end to the hiatus between the release of a film in theatres and on digital media, with an announcement overnight that it would make its films available to home users on the same day as theatrical releases.

Internet users in the US have had privacy protections voted in by the Obama administration stripped away, with the House voting 215-205 to pass the measure.

All major phone carriers on the east coast of the United States experienced outages of up to 45 minutes beginning at 11am local time on Tuesday (1am AEDT Wednesday), according to information from the outage monitoring site, DownDetector.

Using current network infrastructure, US cable operator Comcast is trialling DOCSIS 3.1 tech to deliver speeds "up to 1 Gigabit per second" over lines already reaching millions of homes.

US cable and Internet provider Comcast has developed its own DOCSIS 3.1 modem which when combined with a DOCSIS 3.1 network can deliver 1Gbps+ speeds.

US telco giant Verizon is now the world’s most valuable telecoms brand, currently worth US$53.5 billion, following its acquisition last February of Vodafone’s 45% indirect interest in its Wireless subsidiary, according to a newly published report.

Apple is in talks with broadcasting and content giant Comcast, in a deal that would see that company provide streaming television content to the Apple TV set top box.

Fresh from its court victory over the FCC, US carrier Verizon is moving to charge more for certain types of Internet traffic.

In the past few minutes, the US Federal Appeals Court has ruled against the FCC in the emotion-charged Net Neutrality case against Comcast.