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On his personal Twitter account, which has more than 6 million followers, Mr. Legere once described Sprint as “full of it” and “#alwayslate,” teased Sprint’s Kansas City hometown and took other unprintable jabs at the company. Sprint had some barbs of its own. In 2011, when AT&T was trying to take over T-Mobile, Sprint ran […]

U.S. regulators have approved T-Mobile’s $26.5 billion takeover of rival Sprint, despite fears of higher prices and job cuts, in a settlement that would create three giant U.S. cellphone companies. Interested in Technology? Add Technology as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Technology news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Friday’s

Episode 7: ‘Connecting the World’ Producer/Director Rolake Bamgbose A lonely Florida woman established a Facebook romance with a man she thought was an American soldier in Iraq. It wasn’t until she had sent him tens of thousands of dollars from her and her husband’s life savings that she learned her buff, blue-eyed friend was a

Photos transmitted from The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft orbiting Earth confirm that it successfully deployed its solar sail. The spacecraft was launched from Florida last month and images from this week’s deployment sequence were downlinked from the orbiter by flight controllers at California Polytechnic State University , San Luis Obispo. One image shows a

Twitter is reporting surprisingly strong user numbers and revenue even as it eliminates robotic and fake accounts on its platform. On that front, the company said instances of suspicious behavior and spam dropped by 18% during the second quarter when it posted financial results for the second quarter Friday. But Twitter‘s push to cut down

The police grabbed Mr. Cheung 11 days after the Telegram channel was created, accusing him of administering it. They also accused him of posting a guide on how to assassinate police officers. Mr. Cheung denies the allegations, and a New York Times search could not find posts matching what the police described. Mr. Cheung, a

BBC Click’s Nick Kwek looks at some of the week’s best technology news stories including; The US Justice Department launches a probe against tech giants it fears may have harmed competition and stunted innovation by being too big Facebook agrees to pay £4bn ($5bn) to settle privacy concerns, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal During SpaceX’s

Japanese internet company SoftBank Group Corp. has set up a new fund for investing in technologies such as artificial intelligence. Tokyo-based SoftBank said Friday its $108 billion Vision Fund 2 includes $38 billion from SoftBank. The rest is from Apple, FoxConn Technology Group, Microsoft Corp., Japanese banks and other companies. SoftBank’s earlier Vision Fund 1,

The study estimated that the corporate payoff — mainly to big tech companies — from collecting the personal data of Americans online was $76 billion in 2018, and that it would rise sharply in the future. If the government collected a 50 percent fee from companies using Americans’ personal data, Mr. Shapiro said, it could

A giant telescope planned for Hawaii‘s tallest mountain will enhance humanity’s knowledge of the universe and bring quality, high-paying jobs, supporters said as protesters blocked construction for a second week. An international consortium plans to build the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope at the top of Mauna Kea, which some Native Hawaiians believe is sacred.