It's official: Sigfox, the defunct French IoT venture, has been reborn as a UnaBiz company. We know this thanks to a LinkedIn post from UnaBiz boss Henri Bong, in which he confirms that Sigfox SAS and Sigfox SA will cease to be used as company names and that all "assets, IPs, teams and contracts with customers and operators will be owned by UnaBiz SAS and UnaBiz Networks SAS which are both French Entities under French Laws." All former Sigfox employees will be folded into the UnaBiz team. In April, UnaBiz beat off other tenders to secure ownership of Sigfox with an offer – it is thought – of €25 million (US$26.8 million). (See Sigfox takeover saddles UnaBiz with heavy baggage.)

Pan-African data center operator Open Access Data Centres has appointed Dr Ayotunde Coker as its new CEO. For the last eight years Coker has been CEO and managing director of Rack Centre, a rival data center brand; prior to that he enjoyed stints at Ford, Cap Gemini and BP, among others.

The European Commission has persuaded Amazon to make it easier for those wanting to unsubscribe to its Prime priority delivery/streaming service to do so. Previously, would-be leavers would be forced to navigate a labyrinthine exit route, involving fuzzy language, numerous web pages and umpteen clicks. Now, as the Commission trumpets in a statement, the platform will "will enable consumers from the EU and EEA to unsubscribe from Amazon Prime with just two clicks, using a prominent and clear 'cancel button.'" It's a shame that it takes pressure from Brussels bureaucrats to make this happen.

Telecom Italia (TIM) is heading into the so-called metaverse, doing so on the tattooed and frankly scrawny shoulders of Jovanotti, an ageing Italian rapper. Drawing on its proprietary eXtended Reality platform, TIM has helped created the "Jovaverse." The operator says: "The Jovaverse is a virtual, immersive and interactive environment, where Jovanotti fans can enjoy a unique multimedia experience using an Oculus model viewer." Eurobites says: Bring back Joe Dolce.

— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading