One More Step In The Google/Motorola Merger: EU Approval Sought
The Federal Communications Commission in the U.S. may have dealt what might possibly be a fatal blow to AT&T (NYSE: T) in its bid to buy T-M… Read more »
One More Step In The Google/Motorola Merger: EU Approval Sought
The Federal Communications Commission in the U.S. may have dealt what might possibly be a fatal blow to AT&T (NYSE: T) in its bid to buy T-M… Read more »
AT&T Scrambling For Cover As T-Mobile Deal Wilts Under Government Scrutiny
photo: Flickr / NontrivialMatt
Nobody likes uncertainty heading into two of the most important months of the mobile calendar: the December holiday shopping season and the… Read more »
Power To The People: ISPs, Media, Users Face Off In EU Legal Triple-Whammy
Consumers in Europe may be feeling the smarting bite of the economic winter settling in around us, but when it comes to internet and mobile… Read more »
Thanksgiving Turkey: AT&T, T-Mobile Pull Merger Application From The FCC
Today, on a public holiday in the U.S., AT&T (NYSE: T) and Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) issued a statement saying they would be withdrawing t… Read more »
FCC Will Not Bless AT&T/T-Mobile, Asks For Hearing On Merger
photo: AP / Harry Hamburg
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission does not like what it sees in the proposed mega-merger between AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile. It ha… Read more »
Three Cries Foul To EU Regulators Over British Mobile Commerce JV
photo: www.three.co.uk
We have seen this one brewing for some time already, and now it appears to be bubbling over: the Hutchison-owned UK mobile operator Three is… Read more »
The Story Behind ShopCity And Its Antitrust Complaint Against Google
photo: Corbis
An “upstart competitor” is claiming Google (NSDQ: GOOG) punted it to the farthest reaches of its search results and is now fighting to level… Read more »
Regulator Tormenting Facebook Wants To Be Liked — On Facebook
Irony alert: The Federal Trade Commission may have just saddled Facebook with 20 years of privacy audits, but that’s not stopping it from ta… Read more »
Facebook Settlement Shows FTC Getting New Traction With Privacy Enforcement
Facebook is widely reported to be on the verge of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that will force it to tighten up its privac… Read more »
James Murdoch Insists Ex Editor And Lawyer Kept Full Horror From Him
photo: Parliament Live
James Murdoch said a trio of former News International executives had not briefed him fully enough, during his second questioning by MPs on… Read more »
China Says No Net Video Allowed On TV
China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has been on the warpath recently. First, they threw a haymaker at China’s… Read more »
Samsung Requests Depositions For Apple’s Jony Ive, Others By December
Another development in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) versus Android patent story as the various cases work their way through the courts. Samsung ha… Read more »
Europe Marches Its Airwaves Toward 4G By 2013
European countries must ensure they have auctioned their analogue TV spectrum for use by higher-speed mobile networks by January 1, 2013, ac… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-28-11
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» Emily Gould And The Rise Of The Indie E-Bookseller (paidContent)
» Mobile Ad Company 4INFO Raises $14 Million, Spin… Read more »
Amazon’s Acquisition Of The Book Depository Gets Official OK
Despite industry organizations’ fears that Amazon’s acquisition of UK online bookseller The Book Depository will create a de facto monopoly,… Read more »
Sprint Must Wear Its ‘Customer Hat’ To Stay In AT&T Case
Sprint’s lawsuit to stop the proposed merger between AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile went before a federal judge today. One antitrust expert exp… Read more »
Ticketmaster To Pay $10 To Fans It Redirected To Scalper Site
Fans who purchased resold tickets to Bruce Springsteen, Miley Cyrus and other shows are set to receive a payout under the terms of a new set… Read more »
Updated: Samsung Seeks Injunctions On iPhone 4S, Adds Japan, Australia
More artillery build-up in the battle between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung. Just days after Apple released its newest handset, the iPhone… Read more »
Microsoft Closes $8.5 Billion Skype Buy; Four Countries Yet To Approve Deal
photo: Getty Images / Justin Sullivan
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) today finally got the keys to Skype, so to speak: the deal for Microsoft to buy the internet telephony giant for $8.5… Read more »
Update: BlackBerry Outage Day Three, RIM Still Investigating, U.S. Impact?
Beleaguered BlackBerry maker Research In Motion’s bad week is not getting much better.
As the company entered its third day of service outa… Read more »
China Cripples Android With Fitful Blocks of Gmail, Market Apps
photo: Flickr / Laihiu
Google’s chronicle of woes in China has grown even larger, with the apparent Great Firewall block of Android’s Market and Gmail apps by auth… Read more »
UK Launches LTE Trial, But Is It Falling Behind In The 4G Race?
photo: Corbis
Frustrating news for those in the UK who have eagerly been awaiting the first 4G services. The country, home to some of the most mobile-savv… Read more »
Nearly There: EU Expected To OK Microsoft’s Deal To Buy Skype
photo: Getty Images / Justin Sullivan
It looks like Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) could be jumping its last major regulatory hurdle in its bid to buy Skype: it is expected to get cleara… Read more »
Premier League Fans Can Buy Cheap Foreign TV Coverage, EU Rules
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UK football fans will potentially be able to watch cut-price Premier League matches, after the European Union’s highest court ruled on Tuesd… Read more »
Symbian Now Officially No Longer Under The Wing Of Nokia, 2,300 Jobs Go
photo: Symbian
Another loose end being tied up by Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today. The company announced that Accenture has now fully taken over Symbian, the opera… Read more »
DOJ Puts Google/Motorola On Hold With Request For More Info
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will renew some old acquaintances at the U.S. Department of Justice before its Motorola (NYSE: MMI) deal is allowed to p… Read more »
Is Twitter Trying To Catch A Tax Leprechaun?
Twitter’s decision to open an office in Dublin has prompted an Irish government agency to crow about “Ireland’s dynamic digital media cluste… Read more »
Europe Probes Banks For E-Payments Monopoly
The European Commission has opened an anti-trust inquiry in to whether a group of banks has conspired to prevent new online payment facilita… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-23-11: Google Spain; Apple Stock, Apple In China; ZTE; HP
photo: Flickr / Supermac1961
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Google has started to quietly distribute its own SIM cards with Nexus S devi… Read more »
AT&T To Smaller Rivals: Buy Our Spectrum, Please
photo: Flckr
AT&T (NYSE: T) reportedly wants its deal with T-Mobile to go through so badly that it’s willing to reportedly undercut the arguments it has… Read more »
UK Mobile Payments JV Hits Rocks Before It’s Started: Three Appeals To EU
photo: Perras1d, Flickr
Operator partnerships for services are notoriously hard to get right: and it looks like the mobile payments and advertising joint venture be… Read more »
Google’s Android Attracts Anti-Trust Heat In South Korea
photo: Seoul: skinnylawyer // Android: Robert Andrews
Authorities in Seoul look like carrying out their own version of the antitrust inquiries currently being carried out by the European Commiss… Read more »
Sprint Joins DOJ In Filing Antitrust Lawsuit Against AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
Just in case the federal government fails to stop AT&T (NYSE: T) from acquiring T-Mobile, Sprint (NYSE: S) has decided to file its own antit… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-6-11: Apple vs. Nokia; 4G Spectrum; Telefonica; Intel
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) could overtake Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in smartphone shipments by the end… Read more »
Report: AT&T Prepping Backup Plan For T-Mobile Deal That Might Please DOJ
It’s time for Plan B with regards to AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile, now that the U.S. Department of Justice has vowed to fight the… Read more »
UK Gives Green Light To Fast Wireless Broadband Service, Free To All Comers
The UK is preparing to roll out a new, superfast mobile broadband service that would also more than double the amount of spectrum that is cu… Read more »
What The Justice Department’s Slapdown Of AT&T Really Means
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The Justice Department’s decision to sue AT&T over its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile is an unusual step and one that is likely to prove f… Read more »
Bloomberg TV Takes New Shot At Comcast Over Channel Placement
Bloomberg TV is making a renewed push to fight its way out of the nosebleed section of Comcast’s channel line-up. Tired of being stuck at 10… Read more »
Updated: DOJ Files Lawsuit To Block AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
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AT&T’s heavy lobbying of the U.S. government to allow its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile does not seem to have worked. The U.S. Departm… Read more »
