Data centre real estate investment trust (REIT) Cyrus One Inc. (NASDAQ: CONE) could be days away from being acquired by private equity houses in a deal said to be worth around US$10 billion. The operator is said to have two acquiring parties on the table, one being a joint venture between KKR (NYSE: KKR) and Global Infrastructure Partners, with Brookfield Asset Management I...

Data centre REIT Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX) has opened a Global Center of Excellence (GCoE) in Bengaluru, India, to develop automated and scalable digital technologies to improve digital infrastructure resilience of its customers and employees. This will include the development of emerging technologies, corporate applications, data engineering and analytics, among other IT doma...

Unlike unemployment that can be tied to a specific event – for instance, the financial meltdown of 2008 – structural unemployment is a different kettle of fish. One helpful definition tells us that structural unemployment occurs when certain industries decline because of long-term changes in market conditions. This definition should be setting off warning bells becau...