Telecom
UK’s Carphone Warehouse and Dixons Retail in £3.5-bn merger talks
24 Feb 2014
British mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse and specialist electrical products retailer Dixons Retail are in merger talks that could create an entity valued at around £3.5 billion
Nokia launches first Android range phones
24 Feb 2014
Google to expand 1-gigabit per second broadband speed to 34 US cities
21 Feb 2014
Google Inc yesterday announced that it plans to expand its Google Fibre high-speed broadband coverage to 34 cities across eight states in the US – a move that will eat into the subscribers of competitors like AT&T, Time Warner Cable and Comcast
Airtel to move Nigeria’s SC after losing $3-mn dispute in Lagos high court
21 Feb 2014
Bharti Airtel said the disputed shares are in an escrow account and the judgement would have no impact on the stake of Bharti Airtel or other Airtel Nigeria shareholders
Pointless to pursue Radia tapes probe, CBI to tell SC
21 Feb 2014
The CBI plns to seek closure of the Niira Radia tapes episode without filing any charges, as it has not found any element of criminality in the 14 preliminary enquiries instituted on the directions of the Supreme Court
Airtel becomes first telco to cross 200-mn subscriber mark in India
20 Feb 2014
Starting out in 1999, Airtel reached its 100-million subscriber mark in 2009, doubling it within five years in 2014
UK’s BT wins pricing appeal against BSkyB
18 Feb 2014
Airtel confirms takeover of Loop Mobile; avoids disclosing deal size
18 Feb 2014
Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile services company, today confirmed acquisition of Loop Mobile, for an undisclsed sum
Bharti to buy Loop Mobile in Rs700-cr deal: report
17 Feb 2014
Sunil Mittal-promoted telecom operator Bharti Airtel is close to acquiring debt-ridden Loop Mobile for around Rs700-crore, in a deal that would enable it to emerge the largest mobile firm in the Mumbai region
Mobile phone use does not cause cancer: Study
14 Feb 2014
900 MHz spectrum bidding turned too risky at 100% premium: RIL
14 Feb 2014
Reliance Jio Infocomm opted out of the bidding for the 900 MHz spectrum after the bidding turned risky with bids going up to 100-per cent of the reserve price of the spectrum
Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten to buy instant messaging app Viber for $900 mn
14 Feb 2014
Rakuten Inc, Japan’s largest e-commerce company, today struck a deal to buy Cyprus-based messaging and VoIP service operator Viber Media Ltd for $900 million, in a bid to expand in emerging markets
Global sales of smartphones surpassed feature phones in 2013: Gartner
14 Feb 2014
Sales of smartphones accounted for 53.6 per cent of overall global mobile phone sales in 2013, and exceeded annual sales of feature phones for the first time
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