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Finnish phone giant Nokia is paying £209m to acquire total control of handset software firm Symbian.

Alarms sounded all over Wall Street in March of last year when word leaked that BCE, parent of phone giant Bell Canada, was in buyout talks with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

The news that such a rich prize - BCE had a market cap of $25 billion - was in play set KKR competitors like Blackstone, Cerberus, and Carlyle scrambling to get in on the action.

Verizon says it intends to sell $8 billion of of stock and debt notes to help finance the company's recent $9.36 billion acquisition of federal airwave licenses, according to a filing Tuesday.

The New York phone giant hopes to build a fourth generation nationwide network using the swath of 700 megahertz radio frequencies.

Verizon says it intends to sell $8 billion of of stock and debt notes to help finance the company's recent $9.36 billion acquisition of federal airwave licenses, according to a filing Tuesday.

The New York phone giant hopes to build a fourth generation nationwide network using the swath of 700 megahertz radio frequencies.

AT&T is adding to its stable of online advertising properties, in a move to further diversify its ad business from phone books.

The phone giant said Monday that it will acquire privately held Ingenio, a provider of pay-per-call advertising technology, for an undisclosed sum.

AT&T said that it ...