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Dish Network Corp. took one step closer to arranging $9 billion in committed financing for its $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp., according to people familiar with the matter.

Telefonica and MTS talk about what comes after dumb pipes.

Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin say they don't pay much attention to rivals. But the search company increasingly appears to be following Amazon.com Inc.'s lead.

Tremor Video, a big video ad network that has long been eyeing a public offering, has finally decided to go ahead with one. The New York-based company just filed its S-1, and should be headed out on a road show within the next month. Here’s the summary of what they’ll be telling investors: Last year [...]

AT&T Inc. has added a new monthly administrative fee of 61 cents to the bills of all of its contract wireless lines as of May 1, a move that could bring in more than a half-billion dollars in annual revenue to the telecom giant.

"Who are those people? What is the opposite of a Genius Bar?"

After stabilizing the design culture at Yahoo amid much turmoil, the well-known user experience exec leaves the sketchbook to CEO Mayer.

Danish mobile games company Kiloo's most popular app, the runner game Subway Surfers, has racked up 175 million downloads since it launched one year ago. In that time, the game has been played 5.5 billion times, the company said in a press release today. Subway Surfers is often used as a reference point among free-to-play game developers seeking to monetize their games with in-app purchases. Kiloo's IAP store has kept the game in the top 50 of Apple's "top grossing" charts for the past nine months.

Can the City by the Bay finally get the newspaper it deserves?

It would be pretty amazing if the company said its first original show did as well as "The Walking Dead." But Netflix says it didn't say that.

After a poor reception in the U.S., Facebook has asked France Telecom and its British joint venture not to start selling the Facebook Home-equipped device, at least for now.

Cloud-services outfit Box announced today it had acquired the technology behind the Folders iOS app and brought aboard its developer, Martin Destagnol, to help integrate its features into Box's app. The IPO-bound Box also recently picked up document-sharing service Crocodoc, and you can expect to hear more about the company's strategy from CEO Aaron Levie on the D11 stage next week.

The former Google, Facebook and Badoo exec is the second high-profile Silicon Valley operating exec the VC firm has hired of late.

A massive amount of product to move in the first month after the device's commerical debut.

A new leader for the high-profile gadget maker.

Not surprisingly, Kutcher is a big fan of Flipboard, Path and Couple--all companies he has invested in.

Chinese personal-computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. said profit in its latest quarter rose 90 percent from a year earlier because of cost controls, stronger pricing and robust shipments.

Apple today said the keynote address for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference will occur on Monday June 10 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Details to follow.

Exec ho! A new big hire at Yahoo.

The peer-to-peer ride-sharing company brings down a huge round.

Twitter makes another play for TV ad money, with "TV ad targeting".

The key is not to blindly apply the strategies that have been made famous through popular books and movies.

TaskRabbit says it will have lower fees and much more transparency than a traditional temp agency.

Yahoo said it had bought PlayScale, a gaming infrastructure platform. Yahoo has been on a bit of a tear in buying up small startups for low prices, to strengthen its talent pool in a wide variety of arena, including mobile, productivity and gaming.

Twitter is stepping up its video ads plans, by adding a new list of advertisers to a program it has been tinkering with for the past few months, and giving the product a name: Twitter Amplify. New partners include Discovery, Time Inc., Major League Baseball; they join previously announced deals with distributors like the Fox and BBC Ameria.

Time is not on HP's side, analysts say.

What happens when you bring the "Wedding Crashers" dudes to the fictional -- but also non-fictional -- Googleplex.

The Isle of Man is the headquarters for PokerStars, the largest online poker company in the world by a wide margin. And it is from this unusual perch the company is playing a difficult hand: just two years after being shut down in the U.S., and with its founder living here with a warrant out for his arrest, it wants to return to the U.S.

Radios and neighborhood patrols are so last year.

Mailbox, the iPhone email app that some folks really love and Dropbox loves so much it paid many millions for, is now available for the iPad. The swipe-to-triage service still only works with Gmail, but it's been modified with panels to fit the larger screen. No Android, yet.