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...DD can also reveal that SKDKnickerbocker, the politically connected public affairs group led by Josh Isay, has bought financial communications group Sloane & Company from MDC Partners....
...Matthew Benson has joined Silver Lake as a managing director and head of communications after two decades at Sard Verbinnen....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...The company introduced all-you-can-eat data tariffs to better compete with its more aggressive rivals Sprint and T-Mobile US which added 817,000 users in the same quarter....
...Sales in its domestic communications segment eased 0.8 per cent year-on-year to ¥755.6bn, but income dropped 8.6 per cent as the company tried to retain and attract customers with discounts on mobile phone...
...Likely acquisition targets are smaller cable operators, such as Cox Communications – although it is unclear if family-owned Cox would sell – as well as the 3m or so subscribers that will probably be jettisoned...
...Verizon’s Lowell McAdam must hope that US wireless margins do not erode too fast as smartphone usage reaches saturation, 4G networks are widely deployed and competitors such as Sprint raise their game....
...Its largest shareholders are led by Dodge & Cox, the mutual find company, with an 11.61 per cent stake, and Paulson & Co, the hedge fund run by John Paulson with a 7.66 per cent holding....
...(Bloomberg, Financial Times) The NSA has also logged phone-call data from the US networks of AT&T and Sprint, in addition to Verizon....
...The deal may involve Sprint first issuing new shares equivalent to about 20% of the company to Softbank. It would give Sprint much-needed help competing with bigger rivals AT&T and Verizon....
...(Reuters)(Financial Times)(Bloomberg) Sprint Nextel is in the early stages of evaluating a bid for MetroPCS Communications that would counter an offer by Deutsche Telekom, according to three people familiar...
...The agreement between Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable was announced as the US cable industry’s annual NCTA show opened in Boston and will enable their...
...and rural markets, was not linked to its difficulties winning Federal Communications Commission approval for the deal with the cable companies and an associated spectrum purchase from Leap Wireless....
...The opponents, which include Sprint Nextel, Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA unit and DirectTV and the Rural Telecommunications Group on Tuesday asked the Federal Communications Commission to “stop the clock...
...Dex One, the former Sprint directories publisher, also went through bankruptcy in 2009, and Yell, which owns UK and US directory brands, had to renegotiate its £2.6bn net debt last December....
...(Financial Times) - The Google v Oracle case could have big implications for the software industry....
...Then a few weeks later it unveiled a deal to buy additional spectrum from Cox Communications for $315m after Cox decided to abandon its own wireless phone initiative....
...AT&T’s biggest competitor continued to mop up spectrum last week, striking another deal to buy 20MHz from Cox Communications....
...and one cable company...
...Shares in Clearwire jumped 30 per cent amid reports that the company’s existing shareholders, which include Sprint Nextel and leading cable television companies, are considering a new round of investment...
...Mr Hesse, who has led the ongoing turnround at Sprint Nextel in recent years, was speaking as the company announced its first-quarter financial results and reiterated its 2011 guidance....
...The estimated value of the investments was detailed in a report dated May 28 sent to investors in the TPG Partners V fund....
...Losing customers and luring new ones is costly and difficult for a smaller, financially strained company such as Sprint. It gets worse....
...Meanwhile, the company remains vulnerable to price cuts....
...In the other auction, for Travel Channel, which is owned by Cox Communications, bids from Providence Equity Partners and others are pushing the expected price towards $800m....
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