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...Anschutz Entertainment Group, which owns London’s O2 Arena, and German ticketing group CTS Eventim, with which AEG co-owns London’s Hammersmith Apollo, were among them, they added....
...The company is working with O2 in the UK, Deutsche Telekom in Germany and Flipkart in India to distribute the phone when it launches, with ambitions to eventually launch in the US if Phone (1) sells well...
...The ruling by the General Court overturned Brussels’ decision four years ago to block the £10.25bn takeover of Telefonica’s O2 network in the UK by Three, owned by Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison....
...AEG, which also owns and operates the O2 Arena in London and the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin, ultimately decided to buy out Staples’ lifetime rights in early 2019, according to Todd Goldstein, chief revenue...
...Virgin-O2 deal cleared to take on BTThe UK competition watchdog has provisionally cleared Virgin Media’s £31bn tie-up with mobile operator O2 after finding it was unlikely to lead to reduced competition...
...Airwave, which was traded between BT, O2 and Macquarie before it was sold to Motorola, generates about £200m a year in pre-tax profit....
...BT will also face additional competition from newly combined Virgin Media O2, says its chief executive Lutz Schüler. 5....
...A rebuffed Stephenson cast an eye toward Europe where Vodafone, Telefónica and the UK network O2 were considered targets. But instead he opted to buy DirecTV for $67bn in 2015, including debt....
...The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority is set to ask Brussels for full control over the review of the proposed £31bn merger between Virgin Media and O2, US consumers are expected to spend $710bn online...
...BT, which acquired EE five years ago, is hoping to stake a claim in that converged product category, ahead of its arch-rival Virgin Media's merger with O2 allowing it to do a similar thing....
...Not so great for Liberty Global and Telefónica, Virgin Media and O2’s respective parent companies....
...Barclays, Hermes and O2 all route their customer conversations through IMImobile’s cloud servers. Cisco’s knockout bid will have been delightful for its shareholders....
...operator O2, kicking off what is expected to be a fierce battle over which authority gets the ultimate say on the transaction....
...Telefónica, Spain’s largest telecoms company and the owner of O2 in the UK and Germany, has teamed up with the ecommerce group to foster the development of “open RAN” (radio access network), developed by...
...Brendan O’Reilly, O2’s chief technology officer, said he had visited Rakuten in Tokyo and that OpenRAN would play a “vital role” in future networks. O2 is running trials in two locations in the UK....
...Project Pink, the merger that brought together Telefonica’s O2 and Liberty Global’s Virgin Media, was completed using Webex, but much of the wooing was done in-person ahead of the lockdown....
...O2, owned by Telefónica, has just agreed to merge its UK business with Virgin Media, so it looks to be a case of opportunity lost....
...The health department said that mobile network operators, including Vodafone, Three, EE and O2, Sky and Virgin, had agreed that “in-app activity” would not come out of customers’ data allowance....
...It is the latest in a string of deals in the sector bringing together broadband and mobile assets, including this year’s merger of Liberty Global’s Virgin Media cable company with Telefónica’s O2 in Britain...
...Álvarez-Pallete says he’s confident that the O2-Virgin merger will be approved by regulators. Read the full interview here....
...One thing to start: Liberty Global and Telefónica have reached an agreement to combine their British operations O2 and Virgin Media, in a tie-up worth more than £24bn that is set to reshape the UK’s telecoms...
...Vodafone staying out of UK convergenceVodafone said it had no plans to gatecrash the £31bn merger of rivals Virgin Media and O2 in the UK, as it reported strong full-year results and maintained its dividend...
...(New York Times) News round-up Anil Agarwal launches $2bn buyout bid for Vedanta (FT) Elliott urges Alexion to put itself up for sale (FT) Vodafone rules out gatecrashing Virgin-O2 deal (FT) Shirtmaker...
...That was with limited coverage in traditional media, and with the boxing world paying more attention to a contest the same night at London’s O2 Arena....
...I recently replaced my worn old iPhone with a new model, a ritual I seem to have gone through every few years since childhood — for so long, in fact, that O2 recently mailed me a bottle of champagne in an...
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