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Will SoftBank Raise its Offer to Buy Sprint?
Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 9:18am | 516Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) Chairman Charlie Ergen thinks that SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son was bluffing when he said that he would not raise the price of his offer for Sprint (NYSE: S). The two corporate leaders got into a war of words this week, but instead of tweeting back and forth like a bunch...
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Sprint, Dish Network Could Merge in Unexpected $25.5 Billion Deal
Monday, April 15, 2013 - 7:47am | 565Sprint (NYSE: S) has become one of the most attractive telecommunications companies in the world, having earned a $20.1 billion bid from Japan-based SoftBank last fall. Now the company has another suitor: DISH Network (NASDAQ: DISH). The satellite TV giant surprised the world Monday morning when...
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One Less Competitor for Netflix
Friday, October 5, 2012 - 2:04pm | 411Like a good TV series preparing for a season finale, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) -- along with its leading co-stars Hulu and Amazon Prime (NASDAQ: AMZN) -- is getting ready to kill off a supporting character. This character (which goes by the name of Blockbuster Video) has been around for some time,...