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...Trains USA....
...Las Vegas to southern California as Virgin Trains USA....
...The company was set up three years ago by Amol Sarva, co-founder of Virgin Mobile USA....
...Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA last week agreed a takeover of close rival Sprint, owned by Japan’s SoftBank, while dominant US telecoms and cable operators AT&T and Comcast are pursuing huge acquisitions...
...Job moves WeWork has held talks with T-Mobile USA boss John Legere to become its new chief executive, as the lossmaking office leasing company’s majority owner SoftBank attempts to stabilise the company...
...But he displays the hyper-logic of a McKinsey consultant — which he once was before co-founding Virgin Mobile USA and then becoming a serial entrepreneur....
...Virgin’s filing also cited the hazards of using mobile phones while driving as another boost for train travel....
...Bao was previously a director at the mobile app company HotelTonight....
...Disappointment: Virgin trains Virgin Trains lost the UK west coast rail franchise last weekend after 22 years. We’d had a rough relationship over the years, but our final date was the worst ever....
...(FT) Virgin Trains’ US IPO hits the buffers Virgin Trains USA has abruptly halted its plans for an initial public offering, days away from the end of an investor roadshow that it hoped would raise $510m...
...Mr Sarva, also the founder of Virgin Mobile USA, argues flexible, inclusive leases will become standard for “normal companies that make up most of the economy”....
...company T-Mobile USA....
...Its Virgin Media subsidiary in the UK is performing well. But the chances of the big deal have faded....
...Sprint gained on reports that a merger deal with T-Mobile USA could be announced as early as next week....
...Last week, Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA agreed a takeover of close rival Sprint, owned by Japan’s SoftBank....
...Dexter Goei, who runs Altice USA, was reinstated to the role of group chief executive....
...USA as “poster children for us”....
...Mr Son has recently said he is open to all options for Sprint, the US wireless carrier SoftBank owns, including a merger with rival T-Mobile USA or other companies....
...The rugby-loving Mr Dunne has been greeted by the US press as being of the same ilk as the charismatic leaders of T-Mobile USA and Sprint, John Legere and Marcelo Claure, because of his love of Twitter....
...Mobile chat-up lines Messaging apps are being turned into a broader mobile platform, with businesses soon being able to interject in the stream as companies like Facebook try to build revenues from this...
...Virgin opposes state aid for broadband Virgin Media has criticised the UK government’s £1.6bn national broadband scheme for giving “hundreds of millions of pounds of excess returns” to BT from the taxpayer...
...(For example, Alphaville were Big in Japan, Madonna’s big hit was Like a Virgin, Michael Jackson was Thrilling the world, Bruce Springsteen was Born in the USA and Queen was using shots of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis...
...After Priceline, he joined Virgin Mobile USA as the eighth employee. He was chief executive for eight years, until the company was sold to Sprint for $420m in 2009....
...Like A Virgin, Madonna 4. Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen 5. Songs from the Big Chair, Tears for Fears 2015 (so far): 1. In the Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2. X, Ed Sheeran 3....
...In 2001 he helped found Virgin Mobile USA along with Sir Richard Branson, the British entrepreneur....
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