I’m sure by now you’ve heard the rumor of T-Mobile looking into gobbling up Sprint. It’s certainly an interesting though…number four in the US buying up number three. However, given the additional info that T-Mobile is also wanting to merge with Orange over there in the UK, things become quite a bit more interesting. That [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Mergers/Acquisitions'
Sprint and T-Mobile
September 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Mergers/Acquisitions, Technology, Wireless, market share, mobile phones
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Think Small And Go Big
April 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Deals, Mergers/Acquisitions, Revenue Models, business ideas, emerging markets, entrepreneurs, start-ups
Many of us dream of going big. It was just announced that Oracle is buying Sun for $7.4 billion. Gee, wouldn’t it be nice to sell off your company for a few BILLION dollars? We keep seeing news blurb after news blurb about companies recording record profits (Exxon Mobile anyone?) or being bought for billions [...]
Tags: angel funding·Apple·entrepreneurs·Exxon Mobile·Facebook·funding·Mac·Microsoft·new business·new solutions·new ventures·Oracle·successful business·Sun·venture capital·Yahoo
The Wild World of Sprint
May 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Business, Business Practices, Mergers/Acquisitions
As you my readers have probably figured out by now, I am slightly intrigued by Sprint. I go nuts with some of their business decisions, I’m baffled that they continue losing customers even though I think they have the most amazing deal around (the Sprint SERO plan…look it up if you’re not familiar with it), [...]
Tags: business turnaround·Deutsche Telecom·DT·merger·Sprint·Sprint merger·T-Mobile
PageFlakes To Be Bought By Live Universe
April 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Business, Mergers/Acquisitions, Technology, Websites
TechCrunch is reporting that PageFlakes, a custom homepage-building site, is being bought by Live Universe. This is exciting news for startups abound as we see a company with a good product but not loads of money succeeding in the ever busy tech world of Silicon Valley. I’ve been using PageFlakes for well over a year [...]
Tags: buyouts·Live Universe·mergers·PageFlakes·PageFlakes acquisition
Delta Needs to Revise Its Inflight TV/Movie Proceedures
March 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Mergers/Acquisitions, Other
Returning from a trip recently I had the joys of experiencing Delta Airline’s ridiculous TV/movie viewing program. Here’s what you get…a screen on the headrest in front of you that allows you to choose from a number of “free” TV shows or pay $5 for a movie. Why do I have the word “free” in [...]
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More Microsoft Acquisitions and Changes
February 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Mergers/Acquisitions, Technology
I’m still trying to figure out what Microsoft is up to with their latest round of actions. If you haven’t heard of their bid to take over Yahoo (which Yahoo turned down btw) then you may have been out of town or in a coma. You’ll have no shortage of articles and opinions to read [...]
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Hasbro buys Cranium for $77.5 million
January 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Mergers/Acquisitions
It’s not the newest of news, but it still baffles my mind. Cranium, a privately held company, was bought by Hasbro for $77.5 million. Wow. I’m sure I’m not the only one that spends countless hours trying to devise ways to achieve financial independence. It seems in this day and age of digital everything, we [...]
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