The Financial Case Against AT&T Buyout Of T-Mobile
Moody’s reports that it is concerned about the financial effects of the AT&T (NYSE: T) $39 billion buyout of T-Mobile. The US telecom will take on $20 billion in debt to close the deal.…
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Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) has reported its earnings for its fourth quarter. The maker of the BlackBerry earned $1.78 EPS and $5.6 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters had estimates of $1.76 EPS…
IPO Daily: Sequans Communications, 4G Chips (SQNS, MSI)
There was an interesting IPO filing from a company called Sequans Communications S.A., a French fabless semiconductor company that makes chipsets for 4G communications such as wireless broadband applications. Its solutions incorporate baseband processor…
Will SK Telecom Try To Buy Sprint, Again?
SK Telecom, one of the largest companies in South Korea, apparently tried to buy Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) in 2008. It was always hard to understand why an Asia firm would want to own a…
AT&T/T-Mobile Deal May Not Help Apple
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), the preeminent provider of smartphones to AT&T (NYSE: T) Wireless, may not get any new customers if its deal with Deutsche Telekom AG to acquire T-Mobile USA goes through. Verizon Wireless…
AT&T Buys T-Mobile, Deprives Desperate Sprint
Just days after rumors that Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) and T-Mobile would merge, AT&T (NYSE: T) bought the Deutsche Telekcom US division of $39 billion. The deal dashes Sprint’s hopes to challenge AT&T Wireless and…
Daily M&A: The VimpelCom Surprise (VIP, MBT, VOD)
Russia is one of the great new investment frontiers which offers high rewards in a high risk-reward game. When VimpelCom Ltd. (NYSE: VIP) announced that it was acquiring Wind Telecom S.p.A. in Egypt, some…
ClearWire: Huge Opportunity, Huge Hurdles (CLWR, S, DTEGY, DRWI, CIEN, ALU)
ClearwireShares of Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWR) have fallen more than 30% in the past year, and there are plenty of signs that things are not going to get better any time soon. This is…
Sprint Tie-Up With T-Mobile Does Little To Help Either
Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) is apparently in talks with European telecom giant Deutsche Telekom about combining its US cellular division T-Mobile with the No.3 wireless provider. T-Mobile is No.4 in US cellular customers. The new…
Apple’s Primacy May Have To Move From Smartphones To Tablets
Steve Jobs said that the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad has 90% of the table PC market when he launched the new iPad 2. Industry experts confirmed the remarkable number. The iPad may become Apple’s…
Consumer Reports Sales Verizon iPhone Has Reception Problems
Consumer Reports issued a note about the reception problems of the AT&T (NYSE: T) iPhone 4 last July. Apple all but denied the trouble and offered free covers for the handsets that supposedly solved…
Will The iPad 2 Come Too Soon?
The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad was launched last April and sold three million units in 80 days. Apple sold 7.33 iPads in its fiscal first quarter. There are a number of reports that Apple…
Ten Hidden Gems in Intel’s Annual Report (INTC, MU, AMD, HPQ, DELL, NVDA, QCOM, BRCM, TXN)
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is among many of the established companies which has filed its annual report or 10-K with the SEC. These reports are almost always long and boring and unfortunately go unread…
Apple Working on Cheaper iPhone (AAPL, NOK, MSFT, GOOG)
Leave it to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) to grab a headline on the same day that Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) reveals a tie-up with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT). Bloomberg cites “people who have been…
Nokia’s Future And Microsoft’s Money
NokiaMicrosoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) won a huge victory today. Struggling handset company Nokia (NYSE: NOK), which is still the global leader in its industry, will use Redmond’s mobile OS in its smartphones. Nokia had considered…