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Facebook's Wall Street tour kicks off - Total Telecom
Facebook executives including finance chief David Ebersman began a tour of Wall Street banks Friday morning, starting with a visit to Morgan Stanley's midtown headquarters in Manhattan at 8 am, people familiar with the matter said.
RIM hires law firm to explore restructuring - Total Telecom
... Ltd. has hired Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP to explore the companies restructuring options, including selling assets, licensing patents or seeking joint ventures, Reuters reported Friday, citing anonymous sources briefed on the matter.
Facebook will list shares on Nasdaq - Total Telecom
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. has scored the stock-market listing of Facebook Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, winning one of the most-coveted deals among the new crop of Internet companies and jockeying ahead in the race for social-media ...
Sharp's delivery of panels for Apple's new iPad reportedly delayed - Total Telecom
... electronics and its Aquos-based LCD TVs, hasn't yet started delivering the panels but it will likely do so as early as this month in an attempt to make the next batch of iPad shipments from Apple, the person, who declined to be named, said.
Palo Alto Networks seeking investment banks for IPO - Total Telecom
The company has put out a request for proposals to several investment banks that it is considering as bookrunners for its IPO, according to people familiar with the matter. The move means the company is going to begin formally interviewing and ...
LG nears deal to stream Verizon FiOS on smart TVs - Total Telecom
By Shara Tibken, Dow Jones Newswires LG Electronics Inc. is near a deal to stream Verizon Communications Inc.'s FiOS service through its televisions and other products, people familiar with the matter said Friday. The deal, which could be announced as ...
Reliance Communications in advanced talks with Carlyle, Blackstone for tower ... - Total Telecom
By Kenan Machado, Dow Jones Newswires US private equity firms Carlyle Group LP and Blackstone Group LP are in separate talks to buy a majority stake in the tower unit of Reliance Communications Ltd., people familiar with the matter say, in a potential ...
Seat Pagine likely to extend restructure vote deadline - Total Telecom
... company SEAT Pagine Gialle SpA looks unlikely to get unanimous consensus from all its lenders on the restructuring of its debt by Wednesday night and will have to extend the restructuring deadline, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday. ...
Telecom Argentina confident dividend safe from forex controls - Total Telecom
... according to the central bank. A government official dismissed speculation that the government might block those transfers. "There's nothing to that," said the official, speaking off the record."Don't give any credence to those reports."
Friday Review: Block party-pooper - Total Telecom
"It's a lot to digest," a person close to the situation told Total Telecom. The source insisted that the government's decision does carry implications for BT and the High Court ruling, but at the moment it is too soon to say with any certainty what ...
BSNL expects to be profitable this fiscal year - Total Telecom
The company is also considering other means of revenue generation: leasing out its seven manufacturing factories to private companies and monetizing its real estate assets, a top company official, who asked not to be named, separately said. ...
Insight prices too high for Time Warner Cable - Total Telecom
... Time Warner Cable Inc., the nation's second-largest cable operator, won't be involved in an auction process for Insight Communications Co., a smaller cable provider backed by private-equity firms, according to a person close to Time Warner Cable. ...
Telecom Italia exec investigated in fraud probe - Total Telecom
... Dow Jones Newswires The head of Telecom Italia SpA's Brazilian unit TIM Brazil, Luca Luciani, is under investigation by Milan prosecutors for alleged fraud, false statements and regulatory obstruction, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. ...
TOT starts 3G network auction after court case cleared - Total Telecom
TOT will now go ahead with the electronic auction, which was scheduled to start at 0200 GMT Friday, the official, who declined to be named, said. ...
Vodafone close to SFR stake sale - Total Telecom
... SFR for GBP7 billion, with the deal potentially taking place as early as this month, The Mail on Sunday reported, citing sources close to the matter. ...
Telenor against Wind Italy inclusion in Vimpelcom deal - Total Telecom
... in the Russian company's $6.8 billion deal to acquire the telecom assets of Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, a person close to Telenor said Tuesday. ...
Oak Pacific, other Chinese social networking firms eye US IPOs - Total Telecom
... Deutsche Bank AG to underwrite its initial public offering in the US in the first half of next year, sources close to the matter told Reuters on Friday. ...
France Telecom close to buying minority stake in Iraq's Korek - Total Telecom
France Telecom is close to signing an agreement to acquire a minority stake in Iraqi mobile phone operator Korek Telecom, a person familiar with the matter ...
India official says new telecom licences unlikely to be cancelled - Total Telecom
India is unlikely to cancel 2G telecom licenses awarded in 2008, a senior government official said ...
LG Electronics to launch 8.9-inch tablet in Q1 - Total Telecom
... 2 dual-core processor made by Nvidia Corp. and will be running on Google Inc.'s Honeycomb software platform, said an official who declined to be named. ...
PGE starts sale process for phone unit Exatel - Total Telecom
... to potential investors interested in acquiring its phone unit Exatel SA, state-owned PAP news agency reports Friday, citing an anonymous source. ...
Reliance's Infotel Broadband aims to raise $1bn - Total Telecom
... Resources was seeking to pay on its loan to help fund its bid to buy a majority stake in Cairn India Ltd. According to people familiar with the matter, ...
Time Warner Cable deal brings Disney into 'TV everywhere' fold - Total Telecom
Disney is holding talks with other pay-TV providers about similar arrangements, according to a person familiar with the matter. Disney won affiliate fee ...
ZTE to launch Android tablet this year - Total Telecom
The device will have both a touchscreen and a keyboard, said a ZTE branding department official who declined to be named. ZTE's plans for an Android tablet ...
Failed talks with Sun led Oracle to sue Google - Total Telecom
... Google following its acquisition of Sun, but the two sides were unable to reach an agreement on licensing fees, people familiar with the matter said. ...