Mobile Minutes: T-mobile a target; Silicon Valley gives up on cars; AT&T streaming; Big numbers for ride hailing
T-Mobile seen as top target following AT&T-Time Warner
deal
T-Mobile
US Inc is the likeliest acquisition target as media companies seek a wireless
partner following AT&T Inc's proposed $85.4 billion takeover of Time Warner
Inc, analysts said.
Read more at Reuters
Silicon Valley decides it?s just too hard to build a car
Bill
Ford is tired of hearing the future of cars belongs to Silicon Valley. Yet for
years, the Apple and Google crowd have been telling him that only Big Tech can
make driverless vehicles.
Read more at Bloomberg
AT&T will launch $35-per-month streaming TV with 100+
channels
The whole point of
the $86 billion AT&T-Time Warner deal announced over the weekend is to plan for the future of television. Before
that?s complete, AT&T?s DirecTV unit will launch a big new service:
streaming over-the-top TV service.
Read more at Forbes
Huge numbers for ride-hailing companies
While
money is still bleeding in the ride-hailing industry, millions of dollars are
being generated from rides globally, as the companies look to become
profitable.
Read more at USA Today