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T-Mobile Said to Hire TAP Advisors to Help Sell Wireless Towers
Bloomberg
T-Mobile USA (166783Q) hired TAP Advisors LLC to help sell wireless towers and raise cash for parent Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE), said people familiar with the matter. Deutsche Telekom (DTE) appointed the New York boutique bank to renew the search for a ...
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EU clamps down on mobile roaming fees
BusinessWeek
By GABRIELE STEINHAUSER The European Union is clamping down on mobile network operators charging consumers high prices for using their phones and tablet computers abroad. The European Parliament said Wednesday that its negotiators had reached a deal ...
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Death Of Best Buy's Big Box Store? Company Will Shift To New Model, Close 50 ...
Forbes
Best Buy will shift toward mobile sales and smaller stores in an effort to boost sagging revenue and compete with rivals like Amazon and Wal-Mart. Best Buy's signature big box stores will be dialed back, and 50 will close in 2012, the company said this ...
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Chinese Mobile Phone Market Booming; Guohong Shuidi Competes with Low Cost
MarketWatch (press release)
BEIJING, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- China's domestic mobile phone market has constantly seen fierce competition for market share with high cost-performance products over the last two years. Recently, the country's Chongqing Guohong ...
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Best Buy to cut costs, open and close stores
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Best Buy Co. said it plans to close 50 big box stores and open 100 smallmobile locations in the US in fiscal 2013 and cut $800 million in costs by fiscal 2015. The news came Thursday as the biggest US specialty electronics retailer ...
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eBay Inc. Names Mobile Payments Entrepreneur and Product Innovator David ...
MarketWatch (press release)
A member of PayPal's executive management team, Marcus, has been leading PayPal's rapidly growing mobile payments business and has driven important mobile product innovations. Reporting to eBay Inc. President and CEO John Donahoe, Marcus succeeds Scott ...
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T-Mobile Helping to Advance Mobile Learning and Digital Education for K-12 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
WASHINGTON, Mar 29, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, T-Mobile USA, Inc. underscored its commitment to make widespread mobile learning a reality as T-Mobile President and CEO Philipp Humm participates in an executive digital learning summit hosted by the ...
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Glu Mobile's stock surges, fueling takeover talk
San Francisco Chronicle
Glu Mobile, the maker of "Contract Killer: Zombies" and "Gun Bros" games for smart phones, is offering potential buyers the fastest sales growth among US mobile gaming competitors. Shares of Glu Mobile rose 21 percent last week on speculation it's a ...
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