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August 26, 2010

Gmail voice goes live

Google’s Gmail phone service – reported yesterday as in beta – has gone live, offering Skype-style voice and video calling. 
 
The service is activated out of the Gmail inbox, with free calls

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August 18, 2010

Hulu headed for IPO: report

Hulu is preparing for an IPO that could value the three-year-old commercial video site at more than $2 billion, New York Times has reported.

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August 16, 2010

Telstra pushing on with SouFun IPO

Telstra is going ahead with plans to list its Chinese online real estate business SouFun, and looks set to receive up to $413 million for its stake.
 
A consortium of two private equity firms and two existing SouFun shareholders on Friday agreed to effectively underwrite Telstra’s p

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August 12, 2010

SARFT gets $12b for national cable co.

Backed by at least 80 billion yuan ($11.8b) in state funds, China’s cable ministry plans to merge dozens of regional and local cable operations into a single national cable business.
 
The State Administration of Radio Film & TV (SARFT) last week set up a team headed by deputy chief Zhang Haitao to drive the scheme, 21cbh.com has

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August 10, 2010

Skype preps for $100m IPO

Skype, the world’s largest carrier of IDD minutes, has filed for an IPO, seeking to raise $100 million.
 
The Luxembourg-based company said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission it hoped to list on Na

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August 9, 2010

FASTTAKES: AIS, NXP, HP, Amdocs, NSN

Thailand’s AIS has revealed its net profit grew 16% to 4.88 billion baht ($152.4m) in Q2, due to strong gains in non-voice revenue. 
 
The auditor general of India will start a

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August 2, 2010

NSN seeks $1b in private equity

Nokia Siemens Networks is discussing the sale of a minority stake to private investors to fund its $1.2 billion acquisition of Motorola’s network business.
 
The vendor hopes to raise $1 billion, but is also keen to leverage the experience of a successful private equity firm in

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June 1, 2010

Banglalink plots IPO: report

Bangladeshi cellco Banglalink is mulling a floatation on the local bourse – but only if the government eases its notorious SIM card tax.
 
Shakil Rizvi, president of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, told the Financial Express that he discussed the IPO proposal recently with Banglalink’s chief executive officer Ahmed Abou Doma.
 
“The CEO

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May 16, 2010

Signs of a market recovery

Telecom IPOs and M&A deals picked up in the second half of 2009 after years of dormancy

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May 5, 2010

Telkom plans tower IPO: report

Indonesian cellco Telkom is planning to IPO its tower business, but first it will have to buy out tower partner SingTel in a deal which could cost it up to $1.2 billion.
 
Telkom has secured almost $400 million in loans from local banks to h

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