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Alex Sherman

ARTICLES BY ALEX SHERMAN

A tie-up between Sprint and T-Mobile would cut the number of national wireless carriers to three from four in the United States. Photo: AP (AP)

Sprint, T-Mobile are said to be ironing out final merger details

2 min read . 06 Oct 2017

Apple, as the largest consumer of the type of chips that Toshiba produces, is aiming to get the best deal on price and volume for a key component. Photo: AFP

KKR said to be wooing Apple to switch sides in Toshiba bid

2 min read . 26 Sept 2017

HTC shares suspended from trading as of 21 September due to a pending announcement, according to the Taiwan stock exchange. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Google said close to buying HTC assets to bolster hardware

1 min read . 20 Sept 2017

After its founding in 2007, Dropbox gained a loyal following from people looking to store photos and other files in the cloud. Photo: Bloomberg

Dropbox expected to hire Goldman for IPO plans: report

1 min read . 28 Jul 2017

Uber, last valued at $69 billion, has faced a string of scandals so far this year. Photo: AP

Uber backers said to discuss stock sale to SoftBank, others

2 min read . 17 Jul 2017

SoftBank is investing $28 billion in the SoftBank Vision Fund and announced in May it has more than $93 billion in total commitments. Photo: Bloomberg

SoftBank Fund hires Michael Ronen away from Goldman Sachs

2 min read . 12 Jul 2017

File photo of Amazon robots transporting goods at an Amazon Fulfilment Center in Tracy, California. Photo: Reuters

Amazon robots poised to revamp how Whole Foods warehouses are run

4 min read . 26 Jun 2017

Slack raised $200 million in its latest funding round in 2016, valuing it at $3.8 billion. Photo: Preetha K./Mint

Amazon said to be interested in buying Slack

1 min read . 16 Jun 2017

Toshiba is selling off assets to plug a hole in its balance sheet after enormous losses in its Westinghouse nuclear subsidiary. Photo: Bloomberg

KKR in talks with Toshiba for pre-emptive chips unit bid

2 min read . 08 May 2017

Toshiba and Western Digital are joint owners of certain chip business facilities. Photo: Bloomberg

Toshiba said to put chip sale process on hold for now

2 min read . 18 Apr 2017

The exchange offer, which is worth about $7.8 billion in new debt, cash and stock, values the debt at an average of 74 cents on the dollar. Photo: Reuters

SoftBank to merge OneWeb with Intelsat, invest $1.7 billion

3 min read . 28 Feb 2017

Apple’s current M&A strategy works well for acquiring start-ups developing new technology that can be added to existing Apple products. Photo: Reuters

Apple struggles to make big deals, hampering strategy shifts

5 min read . 16 Feb 2017

SoftBank is aiming to close the 1st round of investment in its planned $100 billion technology fund by the end of this month. Photo: Reuters

SoftBank said to near first closing of $100 billion tech fund

4 min read . 09 Feb 2017

Graphic: Sarvesh Sharma/Mint

Cisco’s AppDynamics deal may pave way for unicorns

2 min read . 27 Jan 2017

A screen grab of Time Inc’s website

Time said to soon begin discussions with interested buyers

1 min read . 14 Jan 2017

Both companies have amassed giant networks to haul internet traffic through deals over the years.

CenturyLink to buy Level 3 Communications for $34 billion

3 min read . 31 Oct 2016

Executives met in Washington and Nashville to avoid getting noticed in New York. Photo: AFP

Peter Chernin, dinner at Martha’s Vineyard sparked AT&T’s Time Warner deal

5 min read . 24 Oct 2016

The talks, which at this stage are informal, have focused on building relations between the companies rather than establishing the terms of a specific transaction. Photo: Reuters

AT&T said to discuss takeover idea in Time Warner meetings

2 min read . 21 Oct 2016

The social media pioneer, creator of the 140-character tweet, is losing money and yet sports a market value of almost $12 billion. That would a big deal even for Disney, which has a market value 12 times that. Photo: AFP

Disney said to have dropped Twitter pursuit partly over image

2 min read . 18 Oct 2016

Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc. Photo: Bloomberg

Twitter seeks a new path as potential buyers back off

3 min read . 09 Oct 2016