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Thanks to Amazon’s latest shareholder letter, we know its formidable Prime subscription service now has 100 million members who order more than 5 billion products a year. Competing retailers have rolled out comparable two-day (and faster) delivery options, but Prime sets a high bar with streaming movies, TV and music, as well as access to…

T-Mobile struck a $26 billion deal to buy Sprint in a combination that, if allowed by antitrust enforcers, would leave the U.S. wireless market dominated by three national players.

T-Mobile and Sprint have agreed to merge in what will reportedly be a $26 billion deal. The companies’ two CEOs, T-Mobile’s John Legere and Sprint’s Marcelo Claure, announced the impending merger with a seven-minute explainer video pitching the potential 5G capabilities and job growth the combined companies could bring. If the deal passes regulators, the…

The pace of pay-TV cord-cutting is quickening, and earnings for cable and telecom companies underscore how that fundamental shift in consumer behavior is giving even more power to tech giants like Netflix.

Sprint is nearing an agreement to combine with T-Mobile US, hoping that its third effort to unite the nation’s third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers will succeed

Parents now have a way to make sure their offspring aren’t sneaking peeks at Messenger Kids under their blankets while they’re supposed to be asleep. Product manager Tarunya Govindarajan announced in a Newsroom post that a sleep mode was added to the Messenger Kids application, enabling parents to set predetermined “off times” on the devices…

Maria Menounos is an Emmy-winning radio show host, producer and entrepreneur. Menounos, who recently survived surgery to remove a brain tumor, talked with Adweek about her AfterBuzz TV network and how it’s grown into a company with six state-of-the-art multicam studios, more than 100 weekly shows and over 150 countries reached, and how she juggles…

Facebook’s CTO, Mike Schroepfer, faced five hours of intense and technically savvy grilling by members of a parliamentary committee on Thursday. The takeaway: UK regulators don’t trust Facebook. To put it more pointedly in the words of British conservative MP Julian Knight: Facebook is a “morality-free zone” with no respect for consumer privacy or the… Continue reading »

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