Dish ups bid for Clearwire two days before shareholder meeting
Dish on Wednesday increased its bid to acquire wireless broadband wholesaler Clearwire. The company is now offering $4.40 per share, a 29% premium over Sprint’s …
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How China Mobile called Apple’s bluff
Apple and China Mobile have been locked in bitter contract negotiations for years. Apple wants the same kind of deal it has with Verizon or …
Android chief not worried about Samsung clout, vows not to forget Motorola
One potentially problematic aspect about Samsung’s rise as the world’s top Android vendor is that it has literally crowded out smaller competitors and is the …
Apple attracted to manufacturer Pegatron’s willingness to ‘accept thinner profits’
While Foxconn has been slowly lessening its dependence on Apple by building its own branded tablets, it seems that Apple has been simultaneously lessening its …
Despite her love of simplicity, Yahoo’s Mayer seen making company ‘more bloated’
When Marissa Mayer took over as CEO of Yahoo last year there was some hope that she would bring more focus to a company that …
Google wants to starve pirates of revenue instead of outright blocking them
Google is getting sick and tired of the entertainment industry stamping its feet and demanding that it do more to block pirates from its search …
Facebook reportedly no longer in talks to acquire Waze
It had been reported that Facebook was looking to acquire social navigation company Waze for between $800 million and $1 billion. The talks were said …
ITC to review rulings in Apple-Samsung patent spat
The U.S. International Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that it will take a second look at two recent rulings between Samsung and Apple, Reuters reported. …
Google Fiber called the potential ‘beginning of the end’ for cable companies
Although the idea of Google Fiber rolling into your neighborhood and obliterating incumbent cable providers may be a pipe dream in the short term, at …
Strange phenomena surround Nokia’s budget Windows Phone
The Lumia 520 is Nokia’s most important smartphone in 2013 — it’s the budget Windows Phone that is supposed to recapture low-end smartphone share in …
HTC says Samsung is constraining its component supply as a ‘competitive weapon’
HTC’s latest flagship Android phone, the HTC One, has been a big success for the struggling smartphone vendor. The company confirmed recently that it had …
Google seriously considered researching teleportation
Google’s secretive Google X laboratory is where some of the company’s brightest minds go to work so-called “moonshot” projects such as Google Glass and self-driving …
Sprint-SoftBank merger receives security clearance
Sprint on Wednesday confirmed that it has received the go-ahead from the U.S. government to merge with Japanese carrier SoftBank. The Committee on Foreign Investment …
Video: Tim Cook talks iOS 7, Android apps from Apple, TV and more in 81-minute interview
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday kicked off what is sure to be an action-packed show at the eleventh annual D: All Things Digital conference with …
Kim Dotcom has Hollywood studios begging Google to censor new Mega service
Kim Dotcom’s new Mega file hosting service has gotten the attention of Hollywood. Warner Bros. and NBC Universal have asked Google to remove Mega from …
Angry Birds soda gives vendor an 85% sales boost
A leading Nordic beverage company, Olvi, just reported an 85% increase in soft drink sales and its impressive growth is attributed almost entirely to the new range …
Researchers set world record for wireless data speeds at 40Gbps
Remember how exciting LTE-Advanced peak speeds of 1Gbps used to be? Well they still sound exciting but they’re nothing compared to what German researchers have …
Samsung steals smartphone revenue crown from Apple
Apple may have held onto the top spot in terms of smartphone industry profits in the first quarter this year, but there’s a new sheriff …
Why HTC may be doomed no matter how good its devices are
Although its HTC One has received across-the-board acclaim as one of the world’s best smartphones, HTC still finds itself in dire straits. Businessweek’s Joshua Brustein …
Just how flawed are Wall Street’s BlackBerry store checks?
Obviously, estimating smartphone sales volumes is fiendishly difficult. BlackBerry beat the Wall Street consensus on BlackBerry 10 device shipments by 100% in the February quarter. …
With Apple’s growth slowing, Foxconn looks to build its own devices
While it’s too soon to tell whether Foxconn will try to become the next Samsung, the company is certainly looking to diversify its product portfolio …
Yahoo reportedly bidding at least $600 million for Hulu
So how much will it take for Yahoo to buy itself a stake in Hulu? According to a new report from AllThingsD, at least $600 …
New antitrust investigation targets Google’s display ad business
Google is once again said to be at the center of an antitrust investigation over its business practices. According to a report from Bloomberg, the …
To hedge against future Apple suits, Samsung sets up its own patent firm in U.S.
Samsung is still trying to expand its patent portfolio as a way to combat intellectual property lawsuits filed by Apple, and the company has now …
Anti-piracy group says companies should mimic ransomware techniques to fight alleged pirates
A prominent anti-piracy commission, whose members include former Utah governor Jon Huntsman and former U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, has released a new report …
Apple’s iPhone sales tactics come under fire in Europe
The European Commission is reportedly investigating whether Apple is using “anti-competitive iPhone sales tactics and technical restrictions” to edge out rivals in the European market, …
Schmidt: If governments want Google to pay more taxes, they should change tax laws
Google chairman Eric Schmidt and Apple CEO Tim Cook may be rivals but they both agree that government officials need to look at themselves in …
Yahoo reportedly places bid to buy Hulu stake
Yahoo is apparently determined to show that it can do more than pay $1.1 billion for a bunch of teenage girls’ blogs. Unnamed sources tell …
Another patent suit bites the dust: Motorola can’t ban Xbox
The good news with patent suits is that even when they’re successful they very rarely result in outright sales bans of popular products. And now …
Verizon and AT&T grow fatter in America as mobile prices plunge in Europe
American consumers are sleepwalking into being permanently locked to ever-rising phone bills from monolithic incumbents. This is exactly the scenario that the government tried to …
