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• Samsung: Life after the ‘iPhone killer’

  14-10-2016 20:15 via ft.com
  Far from securing the South Korean group’s place in the market, the exploding Galaxy Note 7, threatens it
  
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• Verizon sounds like it’s cooling off on Yahoo

  14-10-2016 13:50
  
  It’s Friday and Verizon is breaking out its dancing shoes as it appears to be warming up for a moonwalk away from the Yahoo deal.
  Spare a thought for those poor Yahoo shareholders. For years they’ve been kicked and punched and pinched as the Yahoo brand slowly eroded away, and as soon as Verizon appears on the edge of the dancefloor, sauntering towards the former internet beauty queen, the telco hunk begins to slow down. Maybe it has noticed the wrinkles, or the padded bra, or the da
  
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• 5G connected car clique lets Vodafone join its gang

  14-10-2016 13:10
  
  After a bunch of important companies formed their own gang to work on making cars cleverer, Vodafone has infiltrated the ranks.
  Audi, BMW, Daimler, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, Intel, and Qualcomm created the 5G car club clique (AKA 5G Automotive Association) a couple of weeks ago, but someone forgot to put telcos on the invite list. That’s particularly funny, given it’ll be the telcos that actually deploy 5G – bit of an oversight that.
  So they took down the ‘no telcos allowe
  
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• Samsung will burn through an additional $3 billion from Note7 woes

  14-10-2016 12:29
  
  Having decided to consign the Note7 to a flame-proof dustbin Samsung has wasted little time in confessing to extent of its financial impact.
  Two days ago Samsung revised its Q3 2016 earnings guidance to knock off $2.3 billion thanks to discontinuing the flaming phablet. It’s share price wasn’t at all affected by this revelation so Samsung thought it might as well lay some more grim news on investors, just to see what they do.
  On top of the 2.3 bil on Q3 Samsung reckons it will take a
  
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• Hyped hybrid of AWS and VMWare unveiled

  14-10-2016 12:24
  
  AWS and VMWare have made an announcement which has largely not lived up to the hype, but could be seen as a useful little addition for enterprise customers.
  The new partnership will aim to deliver what is described as a ‘seamlessly integrated hybrid offering’ to combine the private and public cloud offerings from the two, leaning on the hybrid cloud hysteria which has overcome the industry in recent months.
  AWS has largely steered clear of the hybrid cloud market to date, though it w
  
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• Ericsson and Vodafone M-Pesa simplify safe water payments

  14-10-2016 11:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ericsson has announced that its M-Commerce Interconnect (EMI) service will simplify mobile money payments and cash collection between mobile wallet provider Vodafone M-Pesa and businesses. Click here for more.
  
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• SoftBank and Saudi Arabia plan $100bn tech fund

  14-10-2016 04:26 via ft.com
  Partnership to be based in London will be investing over 5 years
  
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• Vodafone joins 5G Automotive Association

  14-10-2016 02:00
  
  Telco's R&D head Luke Ibbetson to join industry group's board.
  
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• Telcos struggle to deliver on the digitalisation dream

  14-10-2016 02:00
  
  Operators promise simplicity and agility, but enterprises are actually becoming less satisfied with their service provider.
  
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• Sprint uses spectrum as collateral to raise $3.5bn

  14-10-2016 02:00
  
  U.S. mobile operator does another sale and leaseback in a bid to generate fresh capital.
  
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• Rcom to sell 51% of towers unit for INR110bn

  14-10-2016 02:00
  
  Asset manager Brookfield takes majority stake in Reliance Infratel; Indian telco will use proceeds to pay down debt.
  
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• Galaxy Note 7 fallout to wipe €2.4bn off Samsung's earnings over next two quarters

  14-10-2016 02:00
  
  Troubled electronics giant plans to fill the void by driving sales of S7, S7 Edge smartphones.
  
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