Nearshore Journal

By Andrew Parker in London and Paul Taylor in New York
Sprint Nextel, the troubled US mobile phone operator, is examining a technology shift that could pave the way to a merger with T-Mobile USA, Deutsche Telekom’s struggling US unit.
Dan Hesse, Sprint’s chief executive, told the Financial Times that the company was considering using a fourth [...]

by TELEVISA
MEXICO CITY, July 11 (Reuters) – Mexico’s leading broadcaster Televisa said on Sunday its second quarter earnings fell 1.2 percent from a year earlier as it paid more taxes and had higher financing costs.
Televisa said it earned 1.804 billion pesos ($139 million) between April and June, compared with 1.827 billion pesos in [...]

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By JENNA WORTHAM
Liza Colburn uses her cellphone constantly.
he taps out her grocery lists, records voice memos, listens to music at the gym, tracks her caloric intake and posts frequent updates to her Twitter and Facebook accounts.
The one thing she doesn’t use her cellphone for? Making calls.
“I probably only talk to someone verbally on it once [...]

The torrent of major IT acquisitions notched another milestone today when German business applications powerhouse SAP announced plans to buy fast-growing database and mobility vendor Sybase of California for $5.8 billion.
The news comes as the IT vendor space is witnessing an historic consolidation, via both acquisitions and partnerships. [...]

By Rupert Neate
Ivan Seidenberg said there is no compelling reason for a merger, but confirmed that the companies are constantly discussing strategic options. Vodafone owns 45pc of Verizon Wireless while Verizon Communications owns 55pc.
“There’s no compelling reason for investors to think this is an exciting thing to do,” he said of a possible merger. “In [...]

Colocation Equinix provider ctoday announced the opening of its 50th International Business Exchange (IBX) data center, a large facility in the London market. The milestone caps $2 billion investment by Equinix in expanding its data center infrastructure between 2007 and 2010.
“The opening of our 50th premier IBX data center is a massive achievement for the [...]