GigaomEight months and $16B later, Facebook now owns WhatsApp
WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum will keep his day job (in fact he’s being given 25 million restricted shares to stay put), but he’ll also take a spot of Facebook’s board. Read more »
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WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum will keep his day job (in fact he’s being given 25 million restricted shares to stay put), but he’ll also take a spot of Facebook’s board. Read more »
Huawei sees an opportunity in the industrial internet of things, so its buying a U.K. company specializing in sensor and meter networking for a reported $25 million. Read more »
Sprint-T-Mobile may be dead, but there are potentially many more companies that would like to hyphenate their names with T-Mo. France’s Iliad is preparing a new offer, while Dish Network lurks… Read more »
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… Read more »
With no merger possibilities on the horizon, Sprint and T-Mobile will have to look at a different acquisition target: spectrum. The 2015 incentive auction will be both carriers’ opportunity to get… Read more »
The Brightstar founder and CEO will take over Sprint on August 11. The leadership shakeup spells the end of the tumultuous Hesse era at Sprint, but it could be an equally… Read more »
Square is buying swish meal delivery service Caviar. The San Francisco startup could be what Square was missing to make its mark with independent restaurants. Read more »
T-Mobile added 1.5 million new mobile connections in 2nd quarter, beating out its three larger rivals in growth, but it didn’t come close to matching the blowout performance of Q1. Read more »
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… Read more »
AT&T and T-Mobile both claimed they were intent on preserving Cricket and MetroPCS’s services when they made their respective acquisitions. But it looks like T-Mobile was the only one serious about… Read more »