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...The Hong Kong Monetary Authority will co-host a central bankers’ conference this month as the local government attempts to repair its reputation as an international hub, which has been tarnished by harsh...
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...international regulators, as well as by the US Department of Justice....
...Sprint-T-Mobile merger awaits regulatory approval T-Mobile USA and Sprint agreed a deal at the third time of asking to create a company aimed at taking a much larger slice of the world’s most valuable mobile...
...John Curran, a global managing director at Accenture’s communications, media and technology group, also sees a “bit of an innovation interlude”....
...In a Special Report to coincide with the Davos debate, the FT chief economic commentator Martin Wolf weighs in, observing that communications technology such as the internet and mobile phones have so far...
...India, he added, represented “the biggest opportunity and biggest challenge” for international media groups....
...Going global The international market is another option for Mr Roberts....
...Defying convention catapulted Sony’s products to international recognition, starting with the pocket-sized transistor radio in 1955, followed by the portable transistor TV in 1960 and the Trinitron colour...
...John Legere, T-Mobile USA’s new chief executive, used the show to announce an accelerated rollout of LTE and a new partnership with Major League Baseball....
...Related reading: Reliance Communications’ profits plummet, FT Reliance – Ambani v Ambani, Lex Anil Ambani moves to reassure investors, FT CWC/Batelco – beauty at sunset, Lex CWC sells Monaco & Islands unit...
...FIH, Hon Hai’s handset division, was once kept busy manufacturing for Nokia, Motorola and Sony Ericsson....
...“Mobile is one of Sony’s core businesses, and this joint venture will help us strengthen our foundation in this important area, focusing specifically on machine-to-machine wireless technologies,” said Toshimoto...
...Shares in Foxconn International Holdings (FIH) plunged on Tuesday after it reported a record first-half net loss....
...Deutsche Telekom confirmed it was in talks to merge T-Mobile USA with MetroPCS. Deutsche’s board will meet tomorrow to discussing combining the two businesses in one unit (Bloomberg)....
...MetroPCS was down 9.8 per cent to $12.24 on reports that its board had approved a merger deal with T-Mobile USA, a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary....
...However, the company has faced opposition from rivals including Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS to its controversial $3.9bn deal with Spectrum Co – a joint venture of Comcast, Time Warner Cable...
...Deutsche Telekom is considering a deal that would combine its T-Mobile USA business with MetroPCS Communications, a US wireless provider, reports the FT, citing two people familiar with the matter....
...The 454,000 people now paying for online and mobile versions of the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune is 16 per cent higher than the 390,000 subscribers on December 31, when an advertiser...
...When Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s chief executive, announced the abandonment of the T-Mobile USA bid last month, he said: “The actions by the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice...
...The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week was awash with new smartphones from Samsung, LG, Motorola, Sony and Nokia designed to run on the new 4G mobile networks that the largest US mobile network...
...Federal regulators have told AT&T that they will co-ordinate their investigations of the telecommunications group’s proposed $39bn acquisition of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA unit and its planned $1.9bn...
...Months before AT&T unveiled its $39bn bid for T-Mobile USA, Deutsche Telekom’s US mobile arm, the biggest US telecoms operator sought to sweeten regulators by sending 1,500 cupcakes to the Federal Communications...
...However, Craig Moffett of Bernstein Research noted that Federal Aviation Administration findings on potential GPS interference released this week make it “almost inconceivable” that the Federal Communication...
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