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In a dramatic twist in the tale of Reliance Communications-MTN merger story [will give even the Saas-Bahu soap operas a run for their monies], Reliance Industries wrote to the MTN board pointing out that it has the right of first refusal over a sale of controlling stake in Reliance Communications.

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 turned out to be a damp squib], comes another killer punch. This one is from the much lesser talked about minnow – Spice Communications.
 
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There is a rumour floating around that HTC and Sony Ericsson Might Merge. Both Giants are losing Market Share. HTC has in fact lost some ground in the Smart Phone Market. Both bring unique strengths to the table.

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 in markets that are likely to grow (admittedly not as fast as the Indian Market).
 
The 2 firms had discussed merger [...]

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 point, we think it would be a great time to use WATShow and lend some insights to our readers. [...]

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, accordingly, is veering towards possible structures to achieve this objective”, Business Standard reports.
 
The company also made it clear in a statement today that this may [...]

Microsoft walking away from the deal might seems like an ideal situation that Yahoo might have dreamt of. But it’s actually a nightmare. Let me tell you why. If Microsoft walks away from the deal, thousands of shareholders of Yahoo will be furious since they failed to get a justified price for their holdings in Yahoo. (Yes, many of the shareholders think that at $31 per share, Microsoft is offering a fare price to Yahoo). This, as we discussed in our featured post Microsoft-Yahoo-Google : Kuchh Kuchh Hota Hai, could result in a shareholders’ rebellion

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 the sources, the discussions on the acquisition of the third largest mobile handset maker are on the cards within the Videocon stable.
 
With the current onslaught on increased spectrum allocation [...]

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 Yahoo has been surfacing in the media for time and again. And last Wednesday saw its head rising again. Fortune magazine and CNN Money carried reports [...]

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 so on. Travelguru, one of the India’s leading travel website conquered Desiya.com, your gateway to India for $25 million (approx Rs 100 [...]