Yup, that T-Mobile/MetroPCS deal is officially happening.
Softbank remains unfazed by Dish's higher competing offer to acquire Sprint.
Metro Mobile here we come. The FCC has approved the $1.5 billion merger between MetroPCS and T-Mobile USA.
Verizon no longer wants its wireless destiny tied to the European carrier Vodafone.
Practice Fusion has acquired 100Plus, a startup that provides personalized health predictions to consumers, for a combination of stock and cash.
Private company research firm Privco has ranked the top 20 merger and acquisitions of the top 20 technology VC firms of 2012, including Ancestry.com's $1.6 billion sale to private equity firm Permira and other top tech acquisitions such as Yammer, Meebo, Instagram, and NextG networks.
HP's failed acquisition of Autonomy is arguably even worse than the AOL-Time Warner merger in 2000. What's more, the company ignored a long list of warning signs about Autonomy ahead of the acquisition.
Autonomy founder Michael Lynch and HP, which acquired the company last year, are trading public statements over alleged financial improprieties at Autonomy that led HP to write off $8.8 billion recently.
Softbank will rescue Sprint from potential bankruptcy, but will it be enough?
T-Mobile and MetroPCS are officially merging.
Solar energy software companies Draker and Solar Power Technologies Inc. successfully completed a merger this week as well as closed a new $8 million round of funding.
Apres Facebook, le deluge?
Not exactly, although there was a five-week initial public offering drought for venture-capital-backed companies until late last week. Facebook’s IPO was famously bad, almost the worst in a decade. At least one of the results, among …
T-Mobile is acting tough with its edgy new marketing campaigns, but the fourth-place U.S. wireless carrier is still in a vulnerable position after its acquisition by AT&T fell apart, and it’s losing subscribers like crazy.
So what is T-Mobile’s parent …
Republicans in the U.S. government are seeking to limit the Federal Communication Commission’s power to oversee mergers in the tech and telecommunications arena.
The Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act passed in the House of Representatives last night, 274-174, with …
Like an obnoxious school child that can’t help but point out when it thinks it’s right (note: this is never cute), AT&T said earlier today that T-Mobile’s massive layoffs wouldn’t have happened if the FCC allowed it to purchase the …
AT&T has abandoned its plans to take over T-Mobile due to too much opposition from the FCC and the Department of Justice, the company announced this afternoon.
AT&T sought to buy T-Mobile from its parent, Deutsche Telekom, for $39 billion, …
T-Mobile certainly won’t be lacking in suitors if AT&T’s $39 billion acquisition falls through. Dish Network is interested in partnering with T-Mobile for a wireless network of its own, if AT&T can’t seal the deal, Dish CEO Joseph Clayton said …
The Federal Communications Commission last night released a damning 157-page report (PDF) against AT&T’s proposed $39 billion T-Mobile takeover, which concludes that the merger would ultimately hurt US consumers and the wireless market.
AT&T, not surprisingly, is none too pleased. …
AT&T is hoping that a new deal with Leap Wireless will save its plans of merging with Deutsche Telekom-owned T-Mobile USA.
The deal would see Leap purchasing both T-Mobile’s customer base and most of its wireless spectrum, while AT&T would …
Question: What costs over $4 billion and a coveted slice of wireless spectrum? Answer: The stipulation included in AT&T’s bid to purchase rival carrier T-Mobile USA in the event the sale doesn’t go through.
Today, AT&T and current T-Mobile USA …
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