Sprint Nextel Corporation

Dish Network makes $25.5-billion bid for Sprint Nextel

2013-04-16 08:00:00

Dish Network Corp. is taking a run at Sprint. The satellite television company made an unsolicited $25.5-billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp. on Monday in an attempt to marry one of the nation's biggest pay-TV providers with the third-largest U.S....

Dish's play for Sprint is about defense as much as it is offense

2013-04-16 09:53:00

Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen once compared his corporate strategy to an episode of "Seinfeld." “You initially didn’t know exactly where things were going, but it seemed to all come together in the end,” he said. “This is...

NASCAR's title sponsor, Sprint Nextel, is takeover target

2013-04-15 11:58:00

NASCAR's title sponsor, Sprint Nextel Corp. is in the middle of a takeover battle. Dish Network Corp. on Monday made an unsolicited $25.5-billion offer to buy Sprint, which already had agreed to merge with SoftBank Corp., a Japanese telecommunications...

SoftBank calls its offer for Sprint 'superior' to Dish Network's

2013-04-15 22:31:00

SoftBank Corp., whose bid for 70% of Sprint Nextel Corp. now faces an unexpected challenge from Dish Network Corp., isn't backing down. In a statement released late Monday, the Japanese telecommunications giant said its deal to invest $20.1 billion in...

Dish Network makes $25.5-billion bid for Sprint

2013-04-15 06:16:00

Satellite broadcaster Dish Network Corp. has made a $25.5-billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp. If consummated, the deal would combine one of the nation's biggest pay-TV providers with the third-largest wireless communications company. The unsolicited...

Taxpayers failing to get their fair share of wireless gold rush

2013-04-16 00:00:00

Satellite TV provider Dish Network says it's thinking only of customers as it offers $25.5 billion to buy Sprint Nextel, the third-biggest U.S. wireless company. "A transformative Dish/Sprint merger will create the only company that can offer...

Media struggle to make sense of Boston. Stones get ready to roll.

2013-04-16 07:20:00

Before the coffee. After saying a prayer for Boston. The Skinny: Not much to joke about today as another innocent pleasure is shattered forever. Tuesday's headlines include how the media handled and mishandled coverage of Monday's bombing in Boston....

'42' hits it out of the park. Dish makes a run at Sprint.

2013-04-15 07:19:00

After the coffee. Before remembering how to drive in the rain. The Skinny: I guess I'm getting old, as I had no desire to watch the MTV Movie Awards -- and the tweets told me I wasn't missing too much. Monday's headlines include the weekend box office...

Dish Network offering $25.5 billion to buy Sprint Nextel

2013-04-15 04:14:00

NEW YORK — Dish Network is offering to buy Sprint Nextel Corp. in a cash-and-stock deal it values at $25.5 billion, saying its bid is superior to that of Japanese phone company SoftBank. Sprint's stock jumped in premarket trading Monday. Dish,...

Is Softbank CEO the buyer of $117.5-million Silicon Valley estate?

2013-01-29 16:40:00

SAN FRANCISCO -- Tongues are wagging that SoftBank's billionaire founder, Masayoshi Son, may be the buyer of a $117.5-million estate in Woodside. No one is willing to go on the record -- everyone involved signed non-disclosure agreements. But one real...

Wendy Greuel subpoenas cellphone companies for billing records

2013-01-04 11:42:10

Sprint to pay $2.2 billion to acquire rest of Clearwire

2012-12-17 07:56:00

WASHINGTON -- Sprint Nextel Corp. said Monday it had reached a deal to acquire the rest of fellow wireless carrier Clearwire Corp. for $2.2 billion. The acquisition, which must be approved by federal regulators, would expand Sprint's holdings of...

New York residents walk past a shop offering Sprint Nextel mobile phone service in New York in 2008.

2012-12-17 07:36:26

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone, running Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, is displayed at a Sprint Nextel event during the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.

2012-01-10 00:00:00

Art Sanders has been promoted to Vice President, Human Resources for PLS Group. Sanders, 58, was previously Director of Human Resources for PLS. He will oversee all human resources, training, talent acquisition, payroll and benefits initiatives.

2012-01-09 00:00:00