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Digiweb Buys New Zealand Web Host Web Drive

Digiweb Group, an Irish telecom services and hosting provider, has acquired Web Drive, which is among New Zealand’s largest web hosts. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Continue reading

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DDoS Attack Causes Weekend Outages at New Zealand ISP Spark

Customers of New Zealand ISP Spark experienced significant outages over the weekend due to a DDoS attack that sent “extremely high traffic loads” to its Spark DNS servers. Continue reading

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WHIR Events Announces 2015 Schedule

After taking a break over the summer, WHIR Events are back in full-force with a jam-packed networking schedule. We are also thrilled to announce the dates and locations of our 2015 networking events! Continue reading

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5 Ways Service Providers Can Win (and Keep) Small Business Customers

On Thursday at the ePages Commerce Summit in Hamburg, Germany, Alyssa Jade McDonald-Bärtl gave a keynote presentation about the challenges of a starting a small business and how service providers can help. McDonald-Bärtl is the owner of Blyss Chocolate, an online single bean virgin chocolate and “social enterprise.” Continue reading

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CenturyLink Wants to Acquire Rackspace: Bloomberg Report

CenturyLink is in talks to acquire cloud provider Rackspace, according to a report by Bloomberg on Monday. Citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter, the report said that odds of the deal going through are “less than 50 percent unless Rackspace is willing to take payment in stock or enter a joint venture.” Continue reading

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