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Om Malik / GigaOM:
In AT&T & T-Mobile Merger, Everybody Loses — The lull of my lazy, rainy weekend was broken by the news that AT&T plans to acquire T-Mobile USA for a whopping $39 billion in cash and stock. Who wins and who loses in this deal? It's hard to find winners, apart from AT&T and T-Mobile shareholders.
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AT&T:
AT&T to Acquire T-Mobile USA From Deutsche Telekom — Provides fast, efficient and certain solution to impending spectrum exhaust challenges facing AT&T and T-Mobile USA in key markets due to explosive demand for mobile broadband — Enhances network capacity, output and quality in near term for both companies' customers
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T-Mobile Newsroom:
Q&A: More Information About AT&T Acquisition of T-Mobile USA — An agreement was announced under which AT&T will acquire T-Mobile USA. The agreement is the first step in a process that, including regulatory approvals, is expected to be completed in approximately 12 months.
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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
AT&T Buying T-Mobile USA In $39 Billion Deal — AT&T just announced a deal to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in a cash and stock deal worth $39 billion. — The deal would make AT&T the nation's largest wireless carrier by a wide margin, so it will probably face significant government scrutiny …
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Bruce Gottlieb / The Atlantic Online:
An Ex-Regulator's Take on AT&T Buying T-Mobile
An Ex-Regulator's Take on AT&T Buying T-Mobile
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Sprint: AT&T's T-Mobile Buy Would “Dramatically Alter” Market
Sprint: AT&T's T-Mobile Buy Would “Dramatically Alter” Market
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PR Newswire, SAI, Digital Daily, Engadget, CNET News, SlashGear, TmoNews, @dangillmor, Technologizer and Wall Street Journal
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Live Now: AT&T Makes its Case For the T-Mobile Deal
Live Now: AT&T Makes its Case For the T-Mobile Deal
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SAI, mocoNews and Electronista
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
T-Mobile answers its customers' most Frequently Asked Question: no iPhone
T-Mobile answers its customers' most Frequently Asked Question: no iPhone
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Fortune, VentureBeat, My Nokia Blog, @asymco, Android Tapp, TmoNews and Redmond Pie
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
AT&T's President on Why T-Mobile Deal Should Pass Muster and Won't be a Customer Nightmare
AT&T's President on Why T-Mobile Deal Should Pass Muster and Won't be a Customer Nightmare
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Exclusive: T-Mobile USA CEO to employees: Sale to AT&T the ‘best possible solution’
Exclusive: T-Mobile USA CEO to employees: Sale to AT&T the ‘best possible solution’
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Mobilized, Disruptors, Xconomy, TechCrunch, paidContent and Electronista, Thanks:rawmeet
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
T-Mobile: We Were Totally Kidding About AT&T's Crappy Network!
T-Mobile: We Were Totally Kidding About AT&T's Crappy Network!
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Epicenter, CNET News, Mobilized, Fortune, Internet2Go, techblog.dallasnews.com and Screenwerk
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
AT&T-Mobile: Here Are The Biggest Winners And Losers
AT&T-Mobile: Here Are The Biggest Winners And Losers
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Light Reading, Gizmodo and Mashable!
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile will test antitrust law
AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile will test antitrust law
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Mobilized, GigaOM and @dangillmor
Jacob Hesch / Google Voice Blog:
Sprint integrates Google Voice — Over time, we've worked to bring an integrated Google Voice experience to your mobile device by building mobile apps, introducing Google Voice Lite, and most recently Number Porting. But we felt that ultimately, the most simple solution would be to partner …
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Andy Rubin / Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing Nexus S 4G for Sprint — Recently, we introduced Nexus S from Google, the first phone to run Android 2.3, Gingerbread. In addition to the UMTS-capable Nexus S, today we're introducing Nexus S 4G from Google, available for Sprint. Nexus S 4G is part of the Nexus line of devices …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Complete Integration Of Google Voice And 50 Million Sprint Customers, Plus 4G Nexus S — This is the biggest news about Google Voice since the company behind it, previously called Grand Central, was acquired by Google in 2007. They've integrated with Sprint.
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Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, SAI, Gizmodo and Mashable!, Thanks:robinwauters
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Why the Quick Bar ("dickbar") is still so offensive — Twitter's official iPhone app, formerly Loren Brichter's Tweetie and an otherwise awesome client, got a lot of negative reactions from the recent addition of the Quick Bar, a mandatory trending-topics banner on top of the tweet list.
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Scripting News, Jeff Rock, @fionasrotties, @jeffitup and TechCrunch
Rob Waugh / Daily Mail:
How did a British polytechnic graduate become the design genius behind £200billion Apple? — Rob Waugh reports on the rise to near-mythical status of Jonathan Ive, the remarkable man from Chingford — Jonathan Ive (left) has helped turn Apple into the second biggest company in the world …
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AppleInsider, Fortune, Edible Apple, Gizmodo and 9 to 5 Mac
David Carr / New York Times:
The Evolving Mission of Google — Today's quiz: What company derives 96 percent of its revenue from advertising, has a video platform that is currently negotiating with the National Basketball Association, a movie studio and various celebrities, and is developing a subscription service …
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
Google accuses China of hacking Gmail — Chinese government's crackdown on activists thought to be behind what Google calls ‘politically motivated attacks’ — Google has accused the Chinese government of interfering with its popular Gmail email system. The move follows extensive attempts …
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Samsung Galaxy S II Mini leaks out for Three, plus Nokia X7, Flyer and PlayBook release dates in UK — No, not the Galaxy Mini, that low-end Android sprout — this is Samsung's smaller alternative to the upcoming Galaxy S II superphone. We just got handed UK carrier Three's entire spring-summer lineup …
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SlashGear, Android Community, PhoneArena, AndroidOS.in, thinq_, Electricpig, My Nokia Blog, Pocket-lint, Electronista and CrackBerry.com blogs, Thanks:mansurehmad
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Times's Online Pay Model Was Years in the Making — The discussions played out over most of 2009 amid the hum of the third floor newsroom and in the executive suites high above Times Square, consuming what seemed like countless meetings and consultants' recommendations.
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Michio Kaku / Salon:
What happens when computers stop shrinking? — By around 2020, the age of the ever-smaller chip will come to an end — and we'd better prepare for it — I remember vividly sitting in Mark Weiser's office in Silicon Valley almost twenty years ago as he explained to me his vision of the future.