Customers avoid Sprint in 1Q as suitors circle
(AP)—The flow of new customers to Sprint stopped in the latest quarter, even as the company weighs the offers of two corporate suitors.
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Apr 24, 2013
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Softbank says its bid for Sprint Nextel superior
SoftBank Corp. says it believes its bid for U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel is a better choice than the $25.5 billion counteroffer by Dish Network Corp.
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Apr 16, 2013
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Dish Network offering to buy Sprint in $25.5B deal
Dish Network Corp. is trying to snag U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel away from Japan's Softbank Corp., the latest sign that satellite dishes are losing their relevance in the age of cellphones that play everything from ...
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Apr 16, 2013
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Sprint posts big 4Q loss, revenue rises
Sprint Nextel, the country's third largest wireless carrier, says it lost $1.3 billion in its fourth quarter, about the same as a year ago, as it revamped its network for a comeback versus bigger competitors.
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Feb 7, 2013
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Sprint raises offer to buy Clearwire for $2.2B
Sprint, the third-largest U.S. cellphone company, said Monday that it will buy out the portion of wireless network operator Clearwire that it doesn't already own after raising its offer price to $2.2 billion.
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Dec 17, 2012
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Softbank to buy 70 percent of Sprint for $20 bln (Update)
Softbank Corp. has reached a deal to buy 70 percent of U.S. mobile carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. for $20.1 billion in the largest ever foreign acquisition by a Japanese company.
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Oct 15, 2012
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Sprint confirms talks with Softbank (Update)
Sprint Nextel Corp. on Thursday said Japanese cellphone company Softbank Corp. is in talks about making a potential substantial investment in the U.S. company.
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Oct 11, 2012
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Yahoo to sell half of its Alibaba stake for $7.1B (Update)
(AP) -- Struggling Internet company Yahoo Inc. has secured a lifeline after agreeing to sell half of its prized stake in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba for about $7.1 billion, with most of the cash going to shareholders.
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May 21, 2012
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Alibaba to reach out to Yahoo CEO on stalled deal
(AP) -- Alibaba Group and Japan's Softbank will go directly to Yahoo's chief executive, bypassing negotiators from the U.S. Internet company, after talks over the sale of Yahoo's Asian holdings broke down, a person familiar ...
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Feb 15, 2012
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New Yahoo CEO can't afford to dawdle on to-do list
(AP) -- When he takes over as Yahoo's CEO next week, Scott Thompson will be under more intense scrutiny than he faced the past three years while crafting PayPal's online payments service into one of the crown jewels in eBay ...
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Jan 5, 2012
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