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For increasing numbers of Americans, a landline phone is a superfluous expense that they can do without. According to a survey released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...
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Reuters reports that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will launch the iPhone 5 in September. The news agency said consumers should expect a faster processor. It reported no important details beyond that. The...
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Almost no one mentions also- ran handset company Sony Ericsson anymore. The firm lost money and market share over the last two years. That trend may be in reverse now. Sony Ericsson sold 8.1 million...
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ZOOM Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZOOM) is surging this morning and what is interesting is that there could still be room above if the China syndrome of reverse mergers doesn’t act as a continued...
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The Bell System divestiture was the final act in an epic antitrust battle between the phone company and the federal government. It caused AT&T to shed its local phone companies in 1984. The legal...
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) launched two new smartphones based on the aged Symbian operating system. Symbian has been rejected by the developer market to the extent that Nokia will phase out its use when its...
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The world of M&A often takes strange turns. This morning comes news of a merger of two cult stocks in the communications world between two companies that have never really been able to regain...
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Taiwan handset maker HTC posted earnings which nearly tripled last quarter to $513 million. The firm owes a substantial share of its success to Google. A very large portion of the HTC smartphones are...
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Moody’s reports that it is concerned about the financial effects of the AT&T (NYSE: T) $39 billion buyout of T-Mobile. The US telecom will take on $20 billion in debt to close the deal....
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Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) has reported its earnings for its fourth quarter. The maker of the BlackBerry earned $1.78 EPS and $5.6 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters had estimates...
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There was an interesting IPO filing from a company called Sequans Communications S.A., a French fabless semiconductor company that makes chipsets for 4G communications such as wireless broadband...
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SK Telecom, one of the largest companies in South Korea, apparently tried to buy Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) in 2008. It was always hard to understand why an Asia firm would want to own a troubled...
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), the preeminent provider of smartphones to AT&T (NYSE: T) Wireless, may not get any new customers if its deal with Deutsche Telekom AG to acquire T-Mobile USA goes through....
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Just days after rumors that Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) and T-Mobile would merge, AT&T (NYSE: T) bought the Deutsche Telekcom US division of $39 billion. The deal dashes Sprint’s hopes to challenge...
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Russia is one of the great new investment frontiers which offers high rewards in a high risk-reward game. When VimpelCom Ltd. (NYSE: VIP) announced that it was acquiring Wind Telecom S.p.A. in...
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