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Business 2.0 :: Given all the bad news at AT&T (T), it may seem hard to make a case for Ma Bell as a great acquisition candidate. That’s true for SBC Communications (SBC) and pretty much any Baby Bell that would want to shell out the $20 billion or so that it would cost. [...]

Wall Street Journal sums it up pretty much in its profile of SBC Communications why it so desperately wants AT&T.
SBC has trouble being taken seriously by the phone industry’s most lucrative customers: big corporations who spend millions of dollars on phone and data services. SBC has a relatively small sales force. More importantly, it [...]

The mobile industry is growing fast, and there are just too many players in too many different sectors. Even guys like me who follow the business day in day out find it hard to figure out who’s doing what. Thankfully there is some help at hand. San Francisco based investment bank Rutberg & Company has [...]

Business 2.0 Blog points to new search feature over at Business.com which allows you to find people and create a virtual resume. Or not. Damon over at Business 2.0 typed in his name. Result. Title: Chief Executive Officer, Company: Manic, Date: 9/19/2002 8:01:56 PM. Following his lead, I typed my name and according to [...]

The WiMAX standards are not even close to being finalized, there is no silicon and the infighting between various backers of the technology continue, yet in-Stat believes this could be a market worth billions by 2008. (Okay we will hold them to it!) All you need is to stir some VoIP into the pot and [...]

The demand for VoIP related consumer gear is going to jump quite nicely in the first quarter, according to some reports from Taiwan. It doesn’t surprise me since most players are pushing fancy wifi VoIP phones and adapters to the consumers in the US.
Shipments of voice-over-IP (VoIP) customer-premises equipment (CPE) from Taiwan are expected [...]