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...Hailed by the former Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai as a “record-breaking success”, the question now is whether the huge bet will pay off....
...Amazon, Alibaba, Ant Group, Facebook, Netflix, Spotify, Tesla and Zoom are among the A to Z of growth companies that have helped Baillie Gifford double its assets under management in less than five years...
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...He invested €100bn in Vodafone’s network and returned €120bn to investors. “We have taken a company that was mostly consumer, mostly wireless with minority stakes and holdings everywhere....
...C.banner will take 51 per cent of House of Fraser Group, the holding company that owns 89 per cent of the retailer, by acquiring existing Nanjing Xinjiekou shares and subscribing to new House of Fraser Group...
...The UK has proved a tough territory for Deutsche Telekom, which has moved its focus to the US where its T-Mobile USA network has turned into the company’s growth engine....
...Sprint has held exclusive talks with T-Mobile USA, which is controlled by Deutsche Telekom, as well as with Comcast and Charter Communications, the top two cable operators in the US, about possible deals...
...Mr Thohir is the younger brother of coal billionaire Garibaldi Thohir and owns Mahaka Group, a media conglomerate that runs TV networks, radio stations and newspapers....
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...Their business model is built on the so-called network effect, where a company looks to pull in as many users as possible by offering free access or content and selling advertising....
...As the largest US telecom group, Verizon was expected to be the most active participant, but it came away with just over $10bn of holdings....
...Cable channels owned by Comcast’s NBCUniversal are among those feeling the pinch: at NBCU’s cable channels, which include CNBC, USA Network and Bravo, revenues from advertising fell 5.6 per cent in the fourth...
...The appeal of cellular communications was unclear to many rivals....
...Buying a satellite television group is less likely to provoke antitrust objections, but public interest issues and overlap in the two groups’ video businesses will still attract attention....
...ENTHUSIASM From Network Briefing (September 16, 1999): Internet reward-point “bank” Beenz.com Inc yesterday revealed it has raised $20m in private cash in its third round of venture capital financing....
...David Sovie, managing director with Accenture’s communications group, said: “Sensors will step into the spotlight in 2014 like never before, enabling the digital transformation of people and companies and...
...Intel has had less success in making chips for mobile phones than Arm Holdings of the UK in designing them....
...But others familiar with Vodafone’s thinking believe the UK group wants $130bn....
...Mr Linquist said the deal, which would leave MetroPCS’s existing investors holding a 26 per cent stake in the combined company, was the best option for shareholders....
...Under the terms of the transaction, Deutsche Telekom would be left holding a 74 per cent stake in the combined group, which would operate under the T-Mobile USA name and focus on the low-cost segment of...
...Investors should constantly zoom out. And in mobile telecoms, the big picture is always about scale and the ability to invest....
...Next he backed an ambitious upgrade plan called ‘Network Vision” designed to enable Sprint Nextel to phase out the old Nextel iDen network which was very expensive to run, and position the company to compete...
...However, with MetroPCS recently launching a 4G network using LTE, integrating the two companies could prove easier than many experts had thought and their spectrum holdings are largely complementary....
...from a group of cable TV companies including Comcast....
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