Deals

The FCC has released a report attacking AT&T's proposal to buy T-Mobile as a damper on competition. The 157-page report was released on Wednesday, after the FCC accepted AT&T's move to withdraw its request for approval of the $39 billion deal. The report evaluates the impact the merger would...

AT&T threw in the towel on its planned $39 billion T-Mobile merger over the holiday weekend. On Thursday, it posted a blog entry saying the deal was off. The announcement came two days after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said he would oppose the deal. This is the ...

AT&T threw in the towel on its planned $39 billion T-Mobile merger over the holiday weekend. On Thursday, it posted a blog entry saying the deal was off. The announcement came two days after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said he would oppose the deal. This is the ...

The proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger hit another obstacle Tuesday when the chairman of the FCC called the deal harmful to consumers. AT&T will have to prove otherwise if FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski gets his way. He's asked that the other commissioners approve an administrative hearing on th...

The proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger hit another obstacle Tuesday when the chairman of the FCC called the deal harmful to consumers. AT&T will have to prove otherwise if FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski gets his way. He's asked that the other commissioners approve an administrative hearing on th...

Citigroup has reached an agreement to sell its music label, EMI Group, in two parts for a total of $4.1 billion. Universal Music Group has announced it is buying EMI's recorded music division for $1.9 billion. Sony/ATV, according to news reports, has nabbed -- or is poised to nab shortly -- EMI's pu...

Google has acquired a startup called Apture that provides a new type of search functionality beneficial to publishers -- or anyone, that is, who hates to see Web users leave a page's content to search out related information. Apture has developed technology that displays links to related information...

Oracle's recent acquisition of RightNow raises a question: Can multiple cloud companies be merged together to form a tightly coupled suite of solutions like those which were promised but never delivered during the client-server era? On the face of things, it would appear that merging cloud companies...

Amazon has purchased Yap, a voice recognition startup, according to an SEC filing. The move added to speculation that Amazon is preparing a voice-command service similar to Apple's Siri or Google Android's Voice Actions. The transaction was apparently completed in September, but a public statement h...

AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo are joining forces to sell unused online ads to each other, a position designed to combat the growing market dominance of Google and Facebook. The partnership will allow the companies to buy and sell each other's online inventory of ads. The companies are interested in uppin...

Best Buy said Monday it would buy out Carphone Warehouse's interest in its North American Best Buy Mobile business for $1.3 billion. By purchasing the CPW stake, Best Buy is trying to shift more of its focus to mobile devices. Best Buy has asked CPW to stay on in a consultancy capacity for up to fiv...

Yahoo may have shelved the prospect of a company sale, or at the very least pushed the idea to its back burner. Instead, it is reportedly giving serious thought to selling its Asian assets and redistributing the proceeds to shareholders via a special dividend or buyback shares. It has been widely as...

Sony is cutting itself loose from its European partner in smartphones. The company announced Thursday that it will acquire Ericsson's 50 percent share in their Sony Ericsson venture, making the mobile handset business a fully owned subsidiary of Sony. Ericsson will receive cash compensation of $1.5 ...

What will T-Mobile do if the merger with AT&T does not work out? On the outside, both AT&T and T-Mobile are pushing as hard as they can to get the deal done. However, behind the scenes, T-Mobile is working even harder on the path it will take in the event the deal does not get done. And it m...

Looks like a couple of disparate groups are forming to bid for Yahoo. Microsoft reportedly is working with Silver Lake and one of Silver Lake's investors, the Canada Pension Plan, to put together a proposal that would include several billion dollars from Microsoft, with additional financing arranged...