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Om Malik / GigaOM:
In AT&T & T-Mobile Merger, Everybody Loses — The lull of my lazy, rainy weekend was broken by the news that AT&T plans to acquire T-Mobile USA for a whopping $39 billion in cash and stock. Who wins and who loses in this deal? It's hard to find winners, apart from AT&T and T-Mobile shareholders.
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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
AT&T Buying T-Mobile USA In $39 Billion Deal — AT&T just announced a deal to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in a cash and stock deal worth $39 billion. — The deal would make AT&T the nation's largest wireless carrier by a wide margin, so it will probably face significant government scrutiny …
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AT&T:
AT&T to Acquire T-Mobile USA From Deutsche Telekom — Provides fast, efficient and certain solution to impending spectrum exhaust challenges facing AT&T and T-Mobile USA in key markets due to explosive demand for mobile broadband — Enhances network capacity, output and quality in near term for both companies' customers
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T-Mobile Newsroom:
Q&A: More Information About AT&T Acquisition of T-Mobile USA — An agreement was announced under which AT&T will acquire T-Mobile USA. The agreement is the first step in a process that, including regulatory approvals, is expected to be completed in approximately 12 months.
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Sprint: AT&T's T-Mobile Buy Would “Dramatically Alter” Market — In its first comments on AT&T's proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA, Sprint said that the purchase would “dramatically alter” the market and suggested that regulators take a hard look at the deal.
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
AT&T's President on Why T-Mobile Deal Should Pass Muster and Won't be a Customer Nightmare
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VentureBeat, DSLreports, FierceWireless, FierceWireless and Sidecut Reports
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Exclusive: T-Mobile USA CEO to employees: Sale to AT&T the ‘best possible solution’
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paidContent, Mobilized, Xconomy, TechCrunch and Electronista, Thanks:rawmeet
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
T-Mobile: We Were Totally Kidding About AT&T's Crappy Network!
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Mobilized, Epicenter, CNET News, Fortune, techblog.dallasnews.com, Internet2Go and Screenwerk
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
AT&T-Mobile: Here Are The Biggest Winners And Losers
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Light Reading, Gizmodo and Mashable!
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
T-Mobile answers its customers' most Frequently Asked Question: no iPhone
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Fortune, TmoNews, @asymco and HowardForums
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile will test antitrust law
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Mobilized, GigaOM and @dangillmor
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Why the Quick Bar ("dickbar") is still so offensive — Twitter's official iPhone app, formerly Loren Brichter's Tweetie and an otherwise awesome client, got a lot of negative reactions from the recent addition of the Quick Bar, a mandatory trending-topics banner on top of the tweet list.
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Jeff Rock, Daring Fireball, @jeffitup, @fionasrotties and TechCrunch
Rupal Parekh / AdAge:
Groupon CEO: We Placed Too Much Trust in Agency for Super Bowl Ads — Andrew Mason Says Group-Buying Site ‘Turned Off Part of Its Brain’ When Working With CP&B in Aim to Be ‘Edgy’ — Talk about adding insult to injury. — As if CP&B's breakup last week with one of its biggest clients …
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Snaptu blog:
We've agreed to be acquired by Facebook! — The Snaptu team is excited to announce today that we recently agreed to be acquired by Facebook. — Our goal when we founded Snaptu in 2007 was to provide useful and innovative services to the 95 percent of mobile users that don't have access to advanced smart phones.
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ReadWriteWeb, Inside Facebook, All Facebook, Mashable!, VC Cafe, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Friending Facebook Blog, CNET News, mocoNews, MediaMemo, Yahoo! News and Electronista, Thanks:sidharthdassani
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Confirmed: Facebook Acquires Snaptu (For An Estimated $60 - $70 Million)
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Pulse2, SAI, GeekWire and The Next Web
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
Google accuses China of hacking Gmail — Chinese government's crackdown on activists thought to be behind what Google calls ‘politically motivated attacks’ — Google has accused the Chinese government of interfering with its popular Gmail email system. The move follows extensive attempts …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Times's Online Pay Model Was Years in the Making — The discussions played out over most of 2009 amid the hum of the third floor newsroom and in the executive suites high above Times Square, consuming what seemed like countless meetings and consultants' recommendations.
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Media Decoder, Guardian, GigaOM, @dangillmor and paidContent, more at Mediagazer »
Peter Sims / TechCrunch:
Don't Bet Big. Little Bets Are The Ones That Turn Into Billion-Dollar Ideas — Editor's note: The following guest post is by bestselling author and former venture capitalist Peter Sims. His next book, from which some of this article is exclusively drawn, is Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
An Illustrated Guide To Searching For Shared, Tweeted & “Realtime” Images — Looking for images that are being shared and posted in realtime? That image search space has gotten more competitive, as Nachofoto reenters the field. Below, what it offers, along with general realtime image searching tips using …
