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Facebook Joins Amazon, Disney In India's Hot Cricket Streaming Market
Monday, November 30, 2020 - 4:07am | 348Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) has partnered with Sony Corporation’s (NYSE: SNE) Indian unit to bring video-on-demand content of India’s ongoing cricket tour of Australia. What Happened: The Mark Zuckerberg-led company’s digital content partnership with Sony Pictures Networks...
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Amazon Enters The Lucrative Disney-Dominated Cricket Streaming Market In India
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - 3:24am | 454Amazon.com, Inc’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Prime Video has acquired the rights to broadcast cricket matches between India and the New Zealand cricket teams in the cricket-crazy Indian market, Reuters reported Monday. What Happened: The Jeff Bezos-led company has entered into a deal with the New...
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Do You Recall These Call Recalls?
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 - 12:37pm | 445Recent reports of the hissing noise made by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s new iPhone 7 surfaced earlier this week. Source: Stephen Hackett, @ismh, the first to note the sound, according to 9to5mac. According to accounts, the hissing noise derives from the back of the phone, not the speaker...
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AT&T Wins FCC Approval - Acquires Leap And Cricket
Friday, March 14, 2014 - 1:25pm | 594AT&T (NYSE: T) announced Thursday that its $1.3 billion acquisition of Leap Wireless (NASDAQ: LEAP) and its Cricket brand was now complete. The announcement followed a statement by the Federal Communications Commission on its website that it had approved the deal, which had originally been...
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AT&T to Acquire Leap and Considering a Play in Europe (LEAP, T)
Monday, July 15, 2013 - 12:34pm | 656AT&T (NYSE: T) announced Friday it will pay about $1.2 billion in a deal to acquire Leap Wireless International (NASDAQ: LEAP), according to USA Today. The acquisition, which will give AT&T all of Leap’s assets, including stock, wireless properties, stores and nearly five million...
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Apple's iPhone Exposed to Nearly 10 Million Potential Customers
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 4:01pm | 556Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) popular trilogy of smartphones -- the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 -- is now available to nearly 10 million additional customers. According to AppleInsider, the expansion is due to the merger between T-Mobile (NYSE: TMUS) and MetroPCS (NYSE: PCS). While T-Mobile began to...
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$100 Million in Unsold iPhones Plague This Carrier
Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 1:27pm | 542When Leap Wireless' (NASDAQ: LEAP) prepaid network decided to offer the iPhone in 2012, the company expected big sales. This was an easy expectation to make. After all, Sprint (NYSE: S) has been boasting about its high iPhone sales for several quarters. AT&T (NYSE: T) sold 8.6 million...
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JP Morgan Comments on iPhone Releases from Leap Wireless
Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 8:54am | 158JP Morgan has published a research report on Leap Wireless (NASDAQ: LEAP) commenting on the company's announcement that it will be releasing two versions of the iPhone starting on June 22. In the report, JP Morgan writes, "We will watch with interest how the iPhone impacts Cricket sales. The $399...