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Dish Network makes $25.5-billion bid for Sprint
Satellite broadcaster Dish Network Corp. has made a $25.5-billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp. If consummated, the deal would combine one of the nation's biggest pay-TV providers with the third-largest wireless communications company. The unsolicited...
Tags: SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, The New York Times, Netflix Inc., SpaceX, Japan
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Taxpayers failing to get their fair share of wireless gold rush
Satellite TV provider Dish Network says it's thinking only of customers as it offers $25.5 billion to buy Sprint Nextel, the third-biggest U.S. wireless company. "A transformative Dish/Sprint merger will create the only company that can offer...Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Verizon Communications, Freedom of the Press, Deutsche Telekom AG
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Boston Marathon, Rocked by Deadly Blasts, Had Alaskan Runners
Channel 2 NewsSeveral Alaskans were in Massachusetts to run the Boston Marathon, where two people died and nearly two dozen others were injured Monday after two explosions at its finish line. Bloody spectators were being carried Monday to the medical tent that had...Tags: Road Running, Running, Boston Marathon, Verizon Wireless, Sports
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Media struggle to make sense of Boston. Stones get ready to roll.
Before the coffee. After saying a prayer for Boston. The Skinny: Not much to joke about today as another innocent pleasure is shattered forever. Tuesday's headlines include how the media handled and mishandled coverage of Monday's bombing in Boston....Tags: Mick Jagger, Blockbuster, G4 (tv network), The Wall Street Journal, Iron Man 3 (movie)
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'42' hits it out of the park. Dish makes a run at Sprint.
After the coffee. Before remembering how to drive in the rain. The Skinny: I guess I'm getting old, as I had no desire to watch the MTV Movie Awards -- and the tweets told me I wasn't missing too much. Monday's headlines include the weekend box office...
Tags: Al Jazeera (tv network), The Wall Street Journal, Scary Movie 5 (movie), The New York Times, Oblivion (movie)
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Dish Network offering $25.5 billion to buy Sprint Nextel
NEW YORK — Dish Network is offering to buy Sprint Nextel Corp. in a cash-and-stock deal it values at $25.5 billion, saying its bid is superior to that of Japanese phone company SoftBank. Sprint's stock jumped in premarket trading Monday. Dish,...
Tags: Satellite Technology, Japan
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Guide: Where to find help as a consumer
Daily PressWhen Crunch Fitness took over the Bally's Total Fitness gym location in Newport News, Mickey Marcella, of Newport News, wanted a refund on his contract since the new owners removed the swimming pool and sauna facilities. Joseph David, of Virginia Beach,...Tags: Business Institutions, Finance, T-Mobile, Services and Shopping, Real Estate
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Foosball isn't what it used to be
The memories are usually fuzzy, clouded by decades of other diversions or simply by the fact that, even back then, you'd already forgotten by the next day that you'd played. Once thought to be the beer pong of its time, foosball is now more hardcore...
Tags: FIFA World Cup, Soccer, Sports
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Is Softbank CEO the buyer of $117.5-million Silicon Valley estate?
SAN FRANCISCO -- Tongues are wagging that SoftBank's billionaire founder, Masayoshi Son, may be the buyer of a $117.5-million estate in Woodside. No one is willing to go on the record -- everyone involved signed non-disclosure agreements. But one real...
Tags: Steve Jobs, China, Japan
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Wendy Greuel subpoenas cellphone companies for billing records
L.A. NOWCity Controller Wendy Greuel said she has issued subpoenas to three cell phone companies that failed to provide billing records for cell phone use at Los Angeles City Hall.... -
Sprint to pay $2.2 billion to acquire rest of Clearwire
WASHINGTON -- Sprint Nextel Corp. said Monday it had reached a deal to acquire the rest of fellow wireless carrier Clearwire Corp. for $2.2 billion. The acquisition, which must be approved by federal regulators, would expand Sprint's holdings of...
Tags: Google+, Leveraged Buyouts, Verizon Wireless
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U.S. Cellular exiting Chicago market to signal strength elsewhere
Two years before U.S. Cellular's 2002 entry into Chicago's wireless carrier fray, Jack Rooney, then its chief executive, said his upstart enterprise would never "be a big gorilla" but rather "a little chimpanzee that runs around stealing bananas and...
Tags: Computer Hardware, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Marketing, Samsung Galaxy S III, Consumers
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