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...On Monday, the Virginia-based bank said it had agreed to acquire Discover Financial Services for $35bn, to be paid all in stock....
...The merger between Virginia-based Capital One and Illinois-based Discover would shake up the US credit card landscape and mark one of the industry’s biggest deals since the 2008 financial crisis....
...David Nemer, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, said Big Tech companies such as Google “are playing hardball because they know that the bill could pave the way for other...
...Virginia-based CapitalOne bank also showed serious interest in acquiring Frank, people with knowledge of the negotiations said. CapitalOne said it does not comment on deal speculation....
...A complaint filed on Tuesday by the DoJ and a group of US states in a Virginia federal court accuses Google of using “anti-competitive, exclusionary, and unlawful means to eliminate or severely diminish...
...Finback was considering buying a stake in Gideon Cyber Systems LLC, according to the term sheet....
...Rubenstein learned in December that Verizon was poised to hand over details of every call and text message sent to or from his iPhone over a 12-month period....
...Telco Verizon Communications and chipmaker Texas Instruments also report....
...The Midwest is bearing the brunt of the heatwave, just as a storm knocked out power for thousands of residents in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia....
...What else we’re reading Virginia’s gubernatorial race tests the president With Joe Biden’s approval ratings falling, election watchers say Virginia’s gubernatorial race is “too close to call”....
...Verizon’s struggles are not unique....
...Earlier this month John Whittingdale, minister for digital, led a conference call that included senior figures from the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Guardian, Verizon Media and Newsquest as well...
...The Virginia-based company has over the past decade taken on bigger competitors such as the Washington Post and upended the political press in Washington....
...Google was on the receiving end of its first federal antitrust complaint from a publisher earlier this year, when the Charleston Gazette-Mail filed a suit in West Virginia....
...highlight how Deutsche Telekom is focusing on the US market where the merger of T-Mobile US, in which it is already the biggest shareholder, with SoftBank-backed Sprint last year has helped it take on Verizon...
...AT&T and Verizon had planned to launch their 5G services on December 5, but delayed the launch a month to allow time for safety reviews....
...A wave of cash flooding bank balance sheets has prompted some US lenders to advise corporate clients to move money out of deposits, and Apollo has bought Verizon’s media assets including Yahoo for $5bn....
...And it is barely more than half what Verizon paid for Yahoo in 2017, combining it with the AOL business it had bought two years earlier....
...“We have been looking at Yahoo for years,” said Kleinman, referring to the unit of Verizon Communications that his firm agreed to buy earlier this month....
...Earlier this month, Amazon said it would bring 25,000 new roles to Bellevue, Washington, as well as building out its new headquarters in northern Virginia....
...Larry Sabato, the director of the non-partisan University of Virginia Center for Politics, adds: “They are not going to put themselves through it....
...“When there’s digital transformation that happens to an industry it’s really hard to revert back to the norm . . . education, I’m hoping, is no different,” said James Rhyu, chief executive of Stride, a Virginia-based...
...the fabric of local communities”, from providing opportunities for small businesses to supporting distance learning, Google said it would invest in new data centre capacity in Nebraska, South Carolina, Virginia...
...Meanwhile, the governor of West Virginia has filed a lawsuit accusing Greensill of fraud....
...It asserts that this constitutes an illegal barrier to entry for Google’s competitors in search, such as Microsoft’s Bing, Verizon’s Yahoo and DuckDuckGo....
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