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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
This week delivered a big corporate update, the kind that usually sets a precedent for many others across the world. In one of the biggest spin-offs in corporate history, telecoms giant AT&T said that it will split out WarnerMedia—which owns HBO, CNN, TBS, TNT and Warner Bros. Studio, among others—and merge it with Discovery to form a new media company.
This deal basically means that AT&T, which had acquired Time Warner (later renamed as WarnerMedia) three years ago in a $85 billion deal in the hopes of building a rival to the tech giants, is finally giving up on the …
A quarter with subscriber gains portends well for the telecom operator, but its underlying metrics tell a more cautious story.
Instead of going after scale like Jio, the Sunil Bharti Mittal-led telecom giant is chasing a smaller but higher-quality customer base to grow its home broadband segment. Will the bet pay off?
Mukesh Ambani wants investors to price Reliance Industries’ IPO-bound telecom arm like a technology business. In reality, Jio’s tech ambitions remain a work in progress.
