In case you haven’t heard, AT&T has announced they will buy T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. This deal would make AT&T the largest wireless carrier in the United States. Reaction to the news has been nuts already. Sprint’s stock (ticker symbol: S) is getting hammered in the stock market with a 13% drop [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Legislation'
Knee-Jerk Reaction On Sprint’s Future After AT&T and T-Mobile Announcement
March 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Business, Deals, Legislation, market share, Mergers/Acquisitions, mobile phones, Wireless
Tags: AT&T·AT&T T-Mobile buyout·buyout·Dan Hesse·FCC regulation·LBS·location based services·M2M·mergers·Sprint·Sprint success·T-Mobile·Verizon
Wishing the U.S. Patent Office Wasn’t So Slow
August 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Business, Business Practices, emerging markets, entrepreneurs, Inventions, Inventions, Legislation, Other, Other, Rant, Rant, start-ups, Technology
We’ve heard over and over again how painfully slow the U.S. Patent Office is. I was reminded again today as I was copied on an email to a patent attorney regarding an application we sent in THREE YEARS AGO. What the hell? This wasn’t even a very complex product that we are dealing with here. [...]
Tags: competitive advantage·Inventions·losing competitive advantage·patent·Patent Office·patent reform·USPTO
RIAA Wants to Expand Fines for CD Copying
January 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Legislation
Good freakin’ googly. As if the RIAA wasn’t already out of control, they want to expand the provisions for which they can sue the living crap out of anyone who copies a CD. Now they want to count each individual song as a separate infringement, thus making the fine for copying a 10-song CD to [...]
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