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Dish Network makes $25.5-billion bid for Sprint Nextel
Dish Network Corp. is taking a run at Sprint. The satellite television company made an unsolicited $25.5-billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp. on Monday in an attempt to marry one of the nation's biggest pay-TV providers with the third-largest U.S....
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Television Industry, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Comcast Corporation, Companies and Corporations
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Dish's play for Sprint is about defense as much as it is offense
Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen once compared his corporate strategy to an episode of "Seinfeld." “You initially didn’t know exactly where things were going, but it seemed to all come together in the end,” he said. “This is...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, House of Cards (tv program), The Walt Disney Co., Comcast Corporation, Netflix Inc.
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NASCAR's title sponsor, Sprint Nextel, is takeover target
NASCAR's title sponsor, Sprint Nextel Corp. is in the middle of a takeover battle. Dish Network Corp. on Monday made an unsolicited $25.5-billion offer to buy Sprint, which already had agreed to merge with SoftBank Corp., a Japanese telecommunications...
Tags: NASCAR, Auto Racing, Adam Scott, Kobe Bryant
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SoftBank calls its offer for Sprint 'superior' to Dish Network's
SoftBank Corp., whose bid for 70% of Sprint Nextel Corp. now faces an unexpected challenge from Dish Network Corp., isn't backing down. In a statement released late Monday, the Japanese telecommunications giant said its deal to invest $20.1 billion in...
Tags: T-Mobile
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Dish Network makes $25.5-billion bid for Sprint
Satellite broadcaster Dish Network Corp. has made a $25.5-billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp. If consummated, the deal would combine one of the nation's biggest pay-TV providers with the third-largest wireless communications company. The unsolicited...
Tags: Japan, Netflix Inc., SpaceX, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival
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Taxpayers failing to get their fair share of wireless gold rush
Satellite TV provider Dish Network says it's thinking only of customers as it offers $25.5 billion to buy Sprint Nextel, the third-biggest U.S. wireless company. "A transformative Dish/Sprint merger will create the only company that can offer...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Marketing, Freedom of the Press, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Deutsche Telekom AG
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Media struggle to make sense of Boston. Stones get ready to roll.
Before the coffee. After saying a prayer for Boston. The Skinny: Not much to joke about today as another innocent pleasure is shattered forever. Tuesday's headlines include how the media handled and mishandled coverage of Monday's bombing in Boston....
Tags: David Lazarus, Satellite and Cable Service, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Sports, Movies
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'42' hits it out of the park. Dish makes a run at Sprint.
After the coffee. Before remembering how to drive in the rain. The Skinny: I guess I'm getting old, as I had no desire to watch the MTV Movie Awards -- and the tweets told me I wasn't missing too much. Monday's headlines include the weekend box office...
Tags: Lindsay Lohan, Japan, 42 (movie), ABC (tv network), Tom Cruise
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Dish Network offering $25.5 billion to buy Sprint Nextel
NEW YORK — Dish Network is offering to buy Sprint Nextel Corp. in a cash-and-stock deal it values at $25.5 billion, saying its bid is superior to that of Japanese phone company SoftBank. Sprint's stock jumped in premarket trading Monday. Dish,...
Tags: Japan, Satellite Technology
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Is Softbank CEO the buyer of $117.5-million Silicon Valley estate?
SAN FRANCISCO -- Tongues are wagging that SoftBank's billionaire founder, Masayoshi Son, may be the buyer of a $117.5-million estate in Woodside. No one is willing to go on the record -- everyone involved signed non-disclosure agreements. But one real...
Tags: Steve Jobs, Japan, China
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Wendy Greuel subpoenas cellphone companies for billing records
L.A. NOWCity Controller Wendy Greuel said she has issued subpoenas to three cell phone companies that failed to provide billing records for cell phone use at Los Angeles City Hall.... -
Will SoftBank buy other U.S. telecom firms after Sprint?
In a soda market completely dominated by Coke and Pepsi, it wouldn't make much business sense to purchase Royal Crown Cola unless you also had plans to get your hands on Mountain Dew or Dr Pepper. I'm guessing Japan's SoftBank has just such an idea in...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Leap Wireless International Incorporated, Japan, University of California, Berkeley, Verizon Communications
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