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AT&T agrees to acquire DirecTV in stock-and-cash deal for $95 per share — AT&T to Acquire DIRECTV — Creates Content Distribution Leader Across Mobile, Video & Broadband Platforms — The premier pay TV brand with the best content relationships now poised to deliver video to multiple screens …
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AT&T and DirecTV vow to follow FCC's 2010 net neutrality guidelines for three years after deal closes — With Comcast-Time Warner merger looming, AT&T will acquire DirectTV — For now, new partners promise to follow FCC's Open Internet protections no matter what.
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AT&T Buys DirecTV For $67 Billion In Second Major Deal To Reshape TV Industry — The deal, announced Sunday night after roughly a month of negotiations, follows Comcast's impending acquisition of Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion. Both deals will face intense regulatory scrutiny. — AP| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion: Sources — Deal would be biggest ever for YouTube — Google's YouTube has reached a deal to buy Twitch, a popular videogame-streaming company, for more than $1 billion, according to sources familiar with the pact.
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Facebook is reportedly building a new Snapchat competitor — Facebook is taking Snapchat very seriously after its failed attempt to purchase the video and picture messaging app for $3 billion last year. Mark Zuckerberg is personally supervising an internal effort to build a competing … | Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Unified login and deep linking within top “app constellations” mean the rich get richer in mobile — App Constellations — I touched on the concept of App Constellations in my post on Friday about Swarm. I've been thinking about this concept for the past week …
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Moto E review: a solid smartphone for $129, with storage size and camera the biggest drawbacks — Review: Motorola's $129 Moto E is good and cheap (but mostly good) — Motorola's $129 Moto E isn't the cheapest phone there is, but it might be the nicest cheap phone there is.
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Will.i.am owns an equity stake in Beats, played a key role in its success — Behind the scenes, a frontman awaits a payday — Lost in the coverage of Apple's reported $3.2 billion bid for Beats is the fact that Dr. Dre isn't the only rapper who will make money in a sale.| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Patent reform hangs by a thread as Senate Democrats bottle up key bill — For a second there, it looked as if Congress was about to fix the country's dysfunctional patent system. The House passed a bipartisan bill in December, supported by the White House and a coalition of retail and tech giants … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Post-Merger, AT&T Takes Cricket Brand Nationwide With New Devices, Rate Plans and Network Technology — Two months after finalizing its purchase of low-cost brand Cricket, AT&T is relaunching the service as a combination of that brand and AT&T's own prepaid service, Aio Wireless.
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In Letter to Obama, Cisco CEO Complains About NSA Allegations — Warning of an erosion of confidence in the products of the U.S. technology industry, John Chambers, the CEO of networking giant Cisco Systems, has asked President Obama to intervene to curtail the surveillance activities of the National Security Agency.| Gabe Friedman / Currency: |
The Biggest Filer of Copyright Lawsuits? This Erotica Web Site — In 2006, Colette Pelissier was selling houses in Southern California, and her boyfriend, Brigham Field, was working as a photographer of nude models. Colette wanted to leave the real-estate business, so she convinced her boyfriend to start making adult films.
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How 3-D Printed Guns Evolved Into Serious Weapons in Just One Year — A burgeoning subculture of 3-D printed gun enthusiasts dreams of the day when a lethal firearm can be downloaded or copied by anyone, anywhere, as easily as a pirated episode of Game of Thrones.Sponsor Posts
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