Mergers On The Cards In Indian Telecom Sector

From an international point of view, when you think about India, one of the things that strike you is quality products and services at cheap prices. One of the pristine examples is the current scenario...
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Spice Mobiles Merges With Its Parent Company

In a significant move to consolidate its telecom business The Spice Group announced the merging of its mobile retail business Spice Televentures with the handset division Spice Mobiles.The merger would...
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Bharti-MTN Merger-beneficial in the long run

It was not so long ago when Bharti Airtel announced the acquisition of 100 millionth Subscriber in India. Now it has stunned everyone by announcing revival of merger talks with MTN Group,South African...
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And the Reliance – MTN Saga continues…

    It’s been touted as the mother of all deals in the Indian telecom industry. But it looks like mother Kokilaben might soon need to step in to calm the two warring factions. Yes people.....
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The Modi – (Telekom) Malaysia Lock Out for SPICE

Another Guest Post by ‘pretty boy‘ Abhinandan Nardekar   The buzz in the Indian telecom industry is just refusing to die down. Close on the heels of talks of Bharti-MTN merger [which eventually...
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HTC – Sony to Merge?

News Aggregation is definitely going social – Most bloggers who do news subscribe to RSS Feeds. That already is social. Twitter too is emerging as a source of news aggregation. Just picked up an interesting...
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Bharti – MTN Deal Off (My Take on Disclosures)

We briefly wrote about the Bharti – MTN Deal and were off the opinion that it would not go through primarily because Bharti would be Marrying Up. MTN has higher revenues, a wider reach, it too, is...
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Insights into Yahoo’s Opinion of the Microsoft Deal & More on Yahoo’s Monetization Strategies Coming up Today on WATShow

We recently caught up with Prashant, the VP & Head of the Advertiser and Partner Group for Emerging Markets at Yahoo! and quizzed him on a lot of things. With the Microsoft Yahoo Deal reaching an inflexion...
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Updates on Bharti – MTN Deal; Bharti Now Eyes Merger Option

Bharti Airtel yesterday said that it is holding discussions with South African telecom company MTN Group that are aimed at “combining the strengths of the two leading emerging markets players and,...
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Microsoft’s Deadline To Yahoo Passes. The Beginning?

      Following Yahoo’s statement that characterized the Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo as undervaluing the company, Microsoft has issued a deadline for Yahoo to act on the offer...
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Videocon Eyes Motorola Mobile Handsets

One of India’s oldest refrigerator company and most trusted electronic appliances company, Videocon has expressed an interest in bidding for Motorola’s mobile handset business. According to...
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The Deal : Will Microsoft Take Over Yahoo ?

  After the HP-Compaq merger and Reebok’s acquisition by Adidas in 2006, a Yahoo takeover by Microsoft is something that interests me more. The news of Microsoft’s possible takeover of...
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Travelguru Goes Shopping: Buys Out Desiya.com For $25 million

These days we hear a lot about company mergers, partnership and all. Few days back, we heard about Google partnering with HolidayIQ. This partnership simplified the local search for hotels, resorts and...
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