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		<title>Now IBM is teaching Watson Japanese</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM has struck a deal SoftBank Telecom Corporation to bring the IBM Watson artificial intelligence (or, as IBM calls it, cognitive computing) system to Japan. The was announced on Tuesday. Watson&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter left a lot unanswered with new ad strategy, but Wall Street didn&#8217;t mind</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter left a lot of questions unanswered about its new syndicated ad network, but it looks like Wall Street didn't mind. The social company's stock closed up six percent after it&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>SoftBank backs high-altitude wind startup Altaeros</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese telecom giant SoftBank is investing $7 million in startup Altaeros Energies, which has developed a helium-filled wind turbine that looks like a small blimp and floats more than a thousand&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Korean drama streaming site DramaFever is being acquired by SoftBank</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janko Roettgers]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DramaFever is the latest niche video service snapped up by a major corporation. So why is everyone suddenly interested in Korean dramas?]]></description>
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		<title>Fon begins beta testing a business Wi-Fi network</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Fitchard]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fon hopes to expand beyond its residential hotspots into coffee shops, retail stores and dentist offices across the world. It's launching a new beta program and Fonera router for businesses starting&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>If Sprint ever wants to buy T-Mobile, one of them is going to have to fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Fitchard]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every quarter, T-Mobile refuted Sprint's basic argument for the merger by performing so well. Mobile industry analyst Chetan Sharma believes the two carriers will get together, but not while T-Mobile is&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The Hesse era at Sprint was a 7-year struggle with Nextel and bad network decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2014 18:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Fitchard]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[History isn't going to judge Dan Hesse's tenure kindly, but many of the problems Hesse faced weren't of his own making. And instead of fixing Sprint's cultural flaws when he took&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>France’s Iliad makes a surprise bid for T-Mobile. Would it be a better fit?</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/07/31/report-frances-iliad-makes-a-surprise-bid-for-t-mobile-would-it-be-a-better-fit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Fitchard]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iliad owns Free Mobile, an upstart carrier overturning France's mobile industry. Now it wants to do the same in the U.S. with T-Mobile's help, though it will have to get through&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s chief business officer Nikesh Arora leaves for Softbank</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of Google's most senior executives is leaving the company for a job at Softbank.]]></description>
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		<title>With spectrum partnership, Sprint and T-Mobile figure out a way to collude without colluding</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sprint and T-Mobile may be forced to bid independently in next year's spectrum incentive auction only to find themselves part of the same combined carrier shortly thereafter. A bidding joint venture&#8230;]]></description>
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