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...exclusionary agreements and anticompetitive conduct, Google in recent years has accounted for nearly 90 percent of all general-search-engine queries in the United States, and almost 95 percent of queries on mobile...
...The money will support the Google News Showcase, a new mobile feature the US tech group will first roll out next Wednesday in Germany and Brazil. 3. SoftBank: tech evangelist or hedge fund?...
...Legislators are rightly discussing support for everything from greener forms of transport such as passenger rail, to highway and bridge repair....
...Our Integrated Rail Plan will be published soon, dramatically improving journey times between our towns and cities....
...Legend Legere leaves with happy legacy John Legere may not be going to WeWork as its new chief executive but the 61-year-old has called time on his stint as chief executive of T-Mobile USA, anointing longtime...
...They illustrate their argument by comparing the paths to success of the richest people in Mexico and the USA (p39)....
...(FT) WeWork courts T-Mobile chief WeWork held talks with T-Mobile USA boss John Legere as majority owner SoftBank looks to stabilise the office space company....
...Virgin’s filing also cited the hazards of using mobile phones while driving as another boost for train travel....
...to expand its nascent passenger rail service and value the lossmaking business at $3bn....
...SFR added a net 16,000 mobile subscribers in the quarter. In Portugal, adjusted earnings were down 1.3 per cent to €265m on a 3.1 per cent drop in revenue to €566m....
...Mr Son, the billionaire founder of the Japanese internet and telecoms group SoftBank, which controls Sprint, said in May that his “top choice” was to merge the business with rival T-Mobile USA, owned by...
...China Mobile, if it gets 64m Brazilian mobile subscribers, that’s probably the biggest step that’s been taken by China Mobile anywhere,” he says....
...Kids are on mobile devices, sharing stuff — that’s how an ad gets seen these days.”...
...Potential targets could include a content company, such as Time Warner, Lionsgate or Netflix, or a wireless provider such as T-Mobile US....
...The two companies will also co-produce new content — and sell advertising space across mobile, desktop and TV screens....
...“It’s a mobile-first medium: 70 per cent of our listening is on mobile devices....
...Mr Wheeler told customers to “stay tuned” for further action against mobile carriers....
...FURTHER FURTHER READING - Mobile is eating global attention. - Google cars: a first drive. - Why have Americans stopped moving? - How do economists try to figure out how the world works?...
...AT&T’s 2011 attempt to buy T-Mobile US, its smaller mobile rival, ended in costly failure after opposition from the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice, and the company could...
...Related reading: About those US-listed Chinese IPOs…, beyondbrics China’s answer to Craigslist surges on US debut, beyondbrics Chinese IPOs: back in the USA?...
...Sprint Nextel’s shareholders voted overwhelmingly today to approve SoftBank’s sweetened $21.6bn bid for a 78 per cent stake in the third-largest US mobile operator, ending a fierce eight-and-a-half month...
...T-Mobile USA has struggled to compete with its larger US rivals, losing customers to them in recent years....
...The rebound in the world’s second-largest economy was largely the result of government efforts to shore up growth with looser monetary policy and a “mini-stimulus” of investment in infrastructure such as rail...
...Gaining a greater portion of the $15bn audio advertising market will help to increase rates on mobile, which remain below the desktop, he adds....
...There are more than 320m mobile subscribers in the US and four major US mobile network operators, Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility, Sprint and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA unit....
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