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In business, one way to eliminate competition is to buy it out. SoftBank founder, Masayoshi Son and Sprint (NYSE: S) CEO, Dan Hesse, are in the midst of making just such a decision with regards to T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS), according to Bloomberg. Of course, Son and Hesse would strongly argue...

U.S. stocks were unable to keep yesterday's momentum and ended the day sharply lower. The Dow suffered yet another triple digit decline with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indices shedding more than one percent. In Ben Bernanke's final meeting as Fed chief, the FOMC tapered its monthly bond...

The earnings crunch is on this week. Highlights will include reports from Amazon.com, Apple, Boeing, Comcast, Facebook, Google and Yahoo! All of them are expected to report year-over-year growth in per-share earnings. But analysts are looking for declining profits from the likes of Caterpillar,...

In a report published Wednesday, FierceWireless confirmed that Sprint (NYSE: S) will not bring back the Nextel brand for enterprise following contrary rumors. FierceWireless interviewed Matt Carter, President of Sprint Enterprise Solutions, who commented that he did not hear anything about the...

Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ), which won a victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals last week in a case about whether the FCC had the authority to enforce net neutrality, is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results Tuesday, January 21, before the opening bell. Investors...

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke took to the podium today in what many consider to be his farewell speech. During his tenure, Bernanke developed the nickname "Helicopter Ben," which is likely to stick with him for some time. Bernanke noted, "The FOMC's decision to modestly reduce the pace of asset...

With the Dow Jones Industrials posting year-to-date gains over 26 percent investors and analysts are expecting markets to see a strong finish in 2013. Nevertheless, there have been a number of market clunkers that have had the misfortune of woefully underperforming to this point in the year....

T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS) is a takeover target. That much seems almost certain. Whether it will eventually be acquired by Sprint (NYSE: S), Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) or someone else is open to debate. As the various players position themselves, one entity stands ready to make or break any...

Setting a precedent for the telecom industry, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) said Thursday that beginning next year it would publish detailed reports on the number of government requests it receives for customer data, according to The Associated Press. Verizon said it would publish its first report online...

Cyber Monday and Black Friday may be over, but that doesn't mean the savings have come to an end. Target (NYSE: TGT) has a number of notable sales this week, including a temporary price cut on the Beats by Dr. Dre Solo HD On-Ear Headphones. Normally retailing for $179.99, the headphones now...

First, there were rumors that Sprint (NYSE: S) was flirting with the notion of acquiring T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS). Despite a pretty good case for a possible merger made by The Wall Street Journal, there was and is a catch: Should such a merger be approved, the market would end up dominated by...

The main question going in to Tuesday's trading session was whethere the Fed will decide to scale back its $85 billion monthly bond buying program. A budget deal in Congress and solid economic data make the case that tapering will begin sooner rather than later. Major indices were virtually...

On Friday, rumors began circulating that Sprint (NYSE: S) was preparing a bid for small rival T-Mobile (NYSE: TMUS). Even if the rumors are true, it doesn’t appear that Sprint would make an offer until sometime during the first half of 2014. But, a rumor that likely wouldn’t come to fruition...

AT&T(NYSE: T) CEO Randall Stephenson at an investor conference in New York Tuesday said wireless operators could no longer afford to subsidize the cost of constant smartphone upgrades for customers. Noting that smartphone penetration was more than 75 percent and would soon reach 90 percent...