Code Advisors Takes a $25 Million Investment From J.P. Morgan

Big and little investment banks join hands to take on Silicon Valley better.
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Optical Delusion? Fiber Booms Again, Despite Bust.

After years of licking its wounds, and with much of the fiber-optic cable capacity in the ground still unused, the telecom industry is going on another building spree.

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Notes From ArabNet

If debates rage about the meaning of the past year in the Middle East, one would not sense much doubt among the regional entrepreneurs and early stage investors gathered in Beirut.

Huawei’s John Roese on the Telecom Giant That Wants to Roar: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

The Chinese company is the world’s second-largest maker of telecommunications and networking gear — and you’re about to hear a lot more from it going forward.
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Google Ponders Pay-TV Business

Internet giant Google Inc. is considering a plan to offer paid cable-TV services to consumers, a move that could unleash a new wave of competition within the traditional TV business.

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Chinese Tech Giant Aids Iran

When Western companies pulled back from Iran after the government’s bloody crackdown on its citizens two years ago, a Chinese telecom giant filled the vacuum. Huawei Technologies Co. now dominates Iran’s government-controlled mobile-phone industry. In doing so, it plays a role in enabling Iran’s state security network.

John Roese on Redefining Huawei and the Democratization of Smartphones

Today, Huawei is a $29 billion company. Ten years from now, it hopes to be at $100 billion. The head of Huawei’s North American R&D team is one of the guys charged with making that happen.
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AT&T: T-Mobile Is Awful. Please Let Us Buy Them.

AT&T today answered the government’s lawsuit seeking to block the telecom company’s proposed takeover of T-Mobile USA. And one nugget of AT&T’s argument is rather odd: T-Mobile — that company we want to buy for $39 billion — is doing just awful.

More AsiaD Speakers: Sony, Google+, Microsoft, Hollywood, Huawei and Hot SV Start-Ups!

Here’s the latest list of speakers for the upcoming AsiaD conference, which will take place October 19 to 21 in Hong Kong.
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Verizon Pursues Tough Line on Labor

Verizon Communications Inc. is seeking some of the biggest concessions in years from its unions, stepping up pressure on organized labor as the telecom industry shifts to less labor-intensive wireless technology.