The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday sided with Qualcomm in an FTC antitrust lawsuit against the company. In the minutes after the ruling, the company's stock rose.
CTA will move CES 2021 to an all-virtual event on Jan. 6-9 from a physical show at the Las Vegas Convention Center, said the association Tuesday.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is eyeing additional duties on French products over France’s digital services tax. After determining in December the DST "is unreasonable or discriminatory and burdens or restricts U.S. commerce," USTR said Friday it plans the additional duties of 25%; it will suspend those levies' application for up to six months.
Its $1.4 billion purchase of Sprint's Boost Mobile complete, Dish Network is now in the retail wireless marketplace, it said Wednesday. It said it would keep the Boost brand, and reinstituted a shrinking payments plan. It said its "$hrink-It!" plan starts at $45 a month for 15 GB and goes down by $5 after three on-time payments and another $5 after six on-time payments. It said Boost's previous shrinking payments offering ended in July 2014.
Lacking California OK, T-Mobile completed the purchase of Sprint. The deal completion was announced Wednesday morning by T-Mobile, which earlier this week and as we previously reported signaled its intention to complete the multibillion-dollar deal without California Public Utilities Commission approval.
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COVID-19 caused CTA to cancel a raft of events through June, while moving another to a “virtual format,” said the association Wednesday.
NAB's annual show next month was canceled. CEO Gordon Smith cited the coronavirus.
Disney's board picked a successor for Bob Iger. Bob Chapek was elevated to CEO, effective immediately. He was chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products.
The U.S. accused Huawei of conspiring to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. DOJ said Thursday afternoon that "a superseding indictment was returned yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn, New York."