Google fourth-quarter revenue misses Wall Street target
People are silhouetted as they pose with laptops in front of a screen projected with a Google logo, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica October 29, 2014.
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Amazon sales rise in holiday quarter, shares jump
A zoomed image of a computer screen showing the Amazon logo is seen in Vienna November 26, 2012. To match Special Report TAX-AMAZON/
Brazil has no favorites in possible telecom tie-up: source
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s government has no preferred model for consolidation of the country’s telecom market, a source told Reuters on Thursday, leaving behind the days when Brazilian telecom company Oi SA was held up as a “national champion”.
Politics, mobile overshadow Alibaba’s fairy-tale run
The logo of the Alibaba Group is seen inside the company’s headquarters in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province November 11, 2014.
U.S. wireless spectrum auction raises record $44.9 billion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission raised a record $44.9 billion in the auction of so-called AWS-3 airwaves that closed on Thursday, marking the highest point yet in the wireless industry’s appetite for more spectrum.
Need for speed: US regulators raise bar for broadband Internet
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. regulators on Thursday raised the standard for high-speed Internet, voting that only connections with download speeds of 25 megabits per second or faster will qualify as broadband, meaning fewer parts of the United States have broadband access.