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AT&T Claims Softbank Will Have “Control of More U.S. Wireless Spectrum than any Other Company”

Eric October 18, 2012 33

This week, Softbank and Sprint reached a deal to hand over 70% of Sprint's stock for a cool $20.1 billion. AT&T, as one would expect after Sprint's critical response to their proposed acquisition of T-Mobile, is a litte weary of the whole situation,...

Japanese Carrier SoftBank Pays $20.1 Billion to take 70% Ownership of Sprint

Eric October 15, 2012 17

Discussions between SoftBank and Sprint were confirmed last week to be about a substantial investment by the Japanese company in the Now Network. To start the week the companies have announced that the deal has been finalized and that SoftBank now owns a...

Sprint Will Hold Off Counter Offer on MetroPCS, For Now

Eric October 10, 2012 11

Sprint was none too happy when they got the news that T-Mobile and MetroPCS had gotten together and planned a deal for a potential merger. After rumors that the Now Network was planning a counter-offer to MetroPCS, news today suggests that they might hold off...

Motorola Mobility Acquires Viewdle, Bolstering Image and Gesture Recognition

Eric October 4, 2012 23

Now that Google owns Motorola Mobility, Moto seems to have taken on the strategy of acquiring businesses to make their products amazing. Today Motorola has announced that they are taking on the Ukraine company Viewdle to make use of their awesome image and...

Google Revises Plans to Cut Jobs and Markets at Motorola, Will Cost $340 Million

Kellen October 4, 2012 41

Back in August, Motorola announced that they would be cutting 20% of their global workforce, a third of which would be from the U.S. They also planned to exit struggling Asian markets and focus on making fewer phones in favor of a select group of high-end...

T-Mobile and MetroPCS Will Officially Merge, Ink $1.5 Billion Deal

Eric October 3, 2012 37

Well it didn't take long for T-Mobile and MetroPCS to work out the differences in their deal, as the two companies have reached an agreement today. For the low price of $1.5 billion, the parent company of T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, gains 74% of the shares in...

Report: T-Mobile in Talks to Merge With MetroPCS

Kellen October 2, 2012 43

Reports out of both Bloomberg and Reuters this morning, speak of talks between Deutsche Telekom and MetroPCS, in hopes of merging T-Mobile with the smaller U.S. carrier. One source went as far as saying the "deal is close" while others were quick to point out...

Google Filing Shows that Motorola Was Worth $12.4 Billion in Total, $5.5 Billion of It in Patents

Eric July 25, 2012 30

Google and Motorola are now together for the foreseeable future after Google purchased the company last year. With the regulations and legal work is out of the way, the official paperwork has been filed and is giving us a bit more information on the whole deal...