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Telecoms Surge As Softbank Reportedly Plans T-Mobile-Sprint Merger

Telecoms Surge As Softbank Reportedly Plans T-Mobile-Sprint Merger

Japanese telecom giant Softbank - which owns Sprint - is reportedly looking at T-Mobile US for a merger. This would be the second attempt after 2014's approach was rebuffed by US regulators.

It appears the entire sector is bid on the news... even AT&T...

 

As Reuters details, SoftBank has not yet approached Deutsche Telekom to discuss any deal because the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has imposed strict anti-collusion rules that ban discussions between rivals during an ongoing auction of airwaves.

Scientists Plan To Resurrect The Woolly Mammoth

Harvard scientists say they are on the brink of resurrecting the woolly mammoth which became extinct 4,000 years ago. They say the ancient beast will be recreated using genetic engineering where the ice age mammal’s DNA is spliced with an Asian elephant to create a hybrid. The scientist leading the “de-extinction” effort said a Harvard team is just two years away from creating a hybrid embryo.

Youtube’s Biggest Personality, PewDiePie, Wrongly Defamed for Being an Anti-Semite

PewdiePie used to do videos about video games, luring 53 million youngsters to subscribe to his channel -- making it the biggest channel on Youtube ever, by a very large margin.

Recently, he's been dropping redpills on his subs, discussing media hypocrisy, with a slight conservative bent. He did a comedy video about Hitler and the result was manufactured outrage, spawned by a Wall Street Journal article and subsequent cancellation of a deal he had with Disney.

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