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Mobile Minutes: Nokia's return; AT&T-Time Warner merger; Startup market slumps; Netflix cozies to carriers

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Feb. 28, 2017
With the 3310, Finnish startup HMD got a stunt to get people to notice its Nokia comeback story. Now comes the hard part.

The head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission does not expect to review AT&T Inc's (T.N) planned $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc (TWX.N), a spokesman for the agency said on Monday.

The post-election rally that?s lifting U.S. public markets has left at least one group by the wayside: private technology startups.

As he sat in his office in central Paris, Christian Bombrun, an executive at Orange, the French cellphone and cable operator, got an unexpected call. It was Netflix, the American streaming giant, proposing a deal.