The Hong Kong conglomerate and a fund linked to Brevan Howard are challenging a decision to reject Hutchison’s €2bn bid for the telecoms operator
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The fourth-largest US mobile network operator has been struggling to stem the loss of valuable monthly contract customers to rivals
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The increasingly dirty business of building and selling smartphones has hit a new low with the news that US Customs is (knowingly or not) giving Apple an assist by holding up big shipments of HTC smarties for a mass pat-down. By Ian Scales.
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Delay in US sales of the Taiwanese group’s flagship smartphones dents hopes of a rebound in the second quarter
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Long ago during the Second World War there was in the UK a very popular weekly radio show called “It’s That Man Again (or ITMA – as it was universally known). It starred the fast-talking comedian Tommy Handley and was renowned for its catch phrases and the names of its characters, one of whom was Colonel Chinstrap, a retired Indian Army officer of the old school. By Martyn Warwick.
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So, Facebook is to up the size of its IPO because the original target issue is already oversubscribed whist investors are banging at the door demanding to be let in and pay cash down on the nail for a piece of the pie. And this on the same day that General Motors has pulled all its ads from the site because they don’t work. Meanwhile the bubble continues to inflate, as Martyn Warwick reports.
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Cisco announced that Chunghwa Telecom, a leading cloud service provider in Taiwan, enhanced its “hicloud” Cloud Server Service with the deployment of the Cisco Unified Data Center architecture.
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New ‘Evercor®’ solution integrates LTE mobile data capabilities with professional mobile radio enabling real-time video, collaboration and data services that improve operations and safety

Evercor will help network operators in public safety, transport and energy to save money by optimizing existing assets while providing an evolutionary path to LTE
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French mobile upstart says it has captured 4% of its domestic market as alarm spreads among the country’s big incumbent telecoms operators
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Shares in New York-listed Russian telecoms group firm after 12% year-on-year subscriber-base increase in Africa and Asia unit offsets weaker domestic market
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