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Verizon to pay Vodafone $130B for stake in Verizon Wireless

After years of talks and speculation, Verizon Communications has reached a deal to acquire Vodafone’s stake in their Verizon Wireless joint venture for $130 billion. The deal is the third largest corporate acquisition ever, behind Vodafone’s $183 billion deal for Mannesmann AG in 1999 and AOL’s $164 billion deal for Time Warner the next year. Under the terms of the …

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Acer announces 10

Acer has announced a new 10-inch Android tablet, the Iconia A3, kicking off a week of big announcements from trade show IFA in Berlin. The iPad rival has a 1,280×800-pixel screen and Dolby Digital Plus speakers for beefing up movie sound and music. Inside the silver-trimmed 0.39-inch thick casing is a quad-core 1.2-GHz cortex A7 processor. It boasts a Micro-HDMI …

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