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More than 80 environment ministers gathered in India on Thursday inched towards a global deal to increase the amount of cash set aside to protect the natural environment, delegates told AFP. http://phys.org/news269787123.html Biology Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:20:01 EST news269787123 Softbank Corp. has reached a deal to buy 70 percent of U.S. mobile carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. for $20.1 billion in the largest ever foreign acquisition by a Japanese company. http://phys.org/news269498133.html Technology Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:35:44 EST news269498133 Ecolab, the cleaning, food safety and pest-control services company, is buying the specialty chemical company Champion Technologies in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $2.2 billion. http://phys.org/news269253128.html Technology Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:32:14 EST news269253128 (AP)—Dish and Gannett say they have reached an agreement in a fee dispute that had threatened to leave more than 2 million Dish subscribers in 19 cities without access to local television stations owned by Gannett. http://phys.org/news268914526.html Technology Mon, 08 Oct 2012 11:28:50 EST news268914526 T-Mobile and MetroPCS have agreed to combine their struggling cellphone businesses in a deal aimed at letting them compete better with their three larger U.S. rivals. http://phys.org/news268478216.html Technology Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:18:27 EST news268478216 (AP)—The parent of cellphone company T-Mobile USA on Tuesday said it's in talks to buy smaller MetroPCS Communications Inc., a deal that could shore up two struggling smaller players in the U.S. wireless industry. http://phys.org/news268396143.html Technology Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:29:38 EST news268396143 (AP)—Deltek Inc. shares slid nearly 8 percent Monday after the business software company said that it was being bought by private equity firm Thoma Bravo LLC in a cash deal worth about $890.5 million. http://phys.org/news265298162.html Technology Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:56:21 EST news265298162 US regulators said Wednesday they closed an investigation into Facebook's billion-dollar deal to buy the startup behind photo-sharing smartphone application Instagram, taking no action. http://phys.org/news264915911.html Technology Thu, 23 Aug 2012 04:45:21 EST news264915911 Shares in Japan's Sharp, which slumped 28 percent at the end of last week after a poor earnings report, fell further Monday after Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision said it would renegotiate a deal to invest in it. http://phys.org/news263486292.html Technology Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:38:17 EST news263486292 (AP) — Settlement deals reached between federal prosecutors and three Internet poker companies call for more than a half billion dollars to be paid to the government, enabling U.S. poker players to recover more than $160 million lost when the companies shut down U.S. operations last year, authorities said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news262960242.html Technology Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:30:51 EST news262960242 Over the past year, some news reports have questioned the long-term viability and popularity of daily deal companies, but the industry shows no evidence of slowing down, according to a new study from Rice University. http://phys.org/news260705628.html Other Sciences Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:14:18 EST news260705628 A spectrum exchange between Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA would improve T-Mobile's service in some areas, enhance both carriers' national networks, and erase T-Mobile's objections to a controversial, earlier deal between Verizon and a consortium of cable companies. http://phys.org/news260126553.html Technology Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:30:01 EST news260126553 Internet search giant Google has reached a deal under legal mediation with French anti-racism groups which objected to the search engine suggesting users add "Jew" to searches for prominent names. http://phys.org/news260011049.html Technology Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:17:40 EST news260011049 Google has reached a deal with French publishers and authors on scanning books and putting them online, ending a six-year legal battle over copyrights, publishers' group SNE said Monday. http://phys.org/news258626609.html Technology Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:43:34 EST news258626609 (AP) -- Google is planning to complete its $12.5 billion acquisition of cell phone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings before Wednesday. http://phys.org/news256843176.html Technology Mon, 21 May 2012 18:19:50 EST news256843176 (AP) -- Struggling Internet company Yahoo Inc. has secured a lifeline after agreeing to sell half of its prized stake in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba for about $7.1 billion, with most of the cash going to shareholders. http://phys.org/news256750102.html Technology Mon, 21 May 2012 03:48:13 EST news256750102 (AP) -- I'm one of the millions of smartphone owners addicted to Instagram, the free camera app that makes tweaking and sharing photos miraculously easy. While it's wildly popular and the target of Facebook's $1 billion takeover deal, Instagram isn't the only camera app worth having. http://phys.org/news254591450.html Technology Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:51:04 EST news254591450 (AP) -- The European Union parliament on Thursday approved a new data agreement with the United States that tightens restrictions on sharing information about passengers flying from Europe to America. http://phys.org/news254052562.html Technology Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:30:01 EST news254052562 (AP) -- T-Mobile USA, which just had its acquisition by AT&T blocked by regulators, is now urging the federal government to block another deal in the wireless world: Verizon's planned purchase spectrum from cable companies for $3.9 billion. http://phys.org/news249125802.html Technology Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:10:01 EST news249125802 (AP) -- AT&T's board cut CEO Randall Stephenson's 2011 pay by $2.08 million because he engineered the failed deal to buy T-Mobile USA, according to a regulatory filing. http://phys.org/news249067892.html Technology Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:31:47 EST news249067892 (AP) -- Netflix has locked up the right to show "The Artist" and other movies from The Weinstein Co. on its Internet video service before the films are released to the leading pay-TV channels. http://phys.org/news249057158.html Technology Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:32:51 EST news249057158 Russia's top search engine Yandex said Tuesday it has teamed up with Twitter to allow the Russian firm to show the full feed of all public Twitter posts. http://phys.org/news249029976.html Technology Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:59:42 EST news249029976 (AP) -- Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker. For most people, that word means something malicious - shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains who cripple websites and break into email accounts. http://phys.org/news247642659.html Technology Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:37:53 EST news247642659 Consumers can have vastly different reactions to the same package deal, depending on the order the price and quantity are listed, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. http://phys.org/news246035252.html Other Sciences Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:30:01 EST news246035252 (AP) -- The Walt Disney Co. said Wednesday that it reached a long-term agreement with the nation's largest TV signal provider, Comcast Corp., that extends their partnership into the next decade. http://phys.org/news244925049.html Technology Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:44:21 EST news244925049 (AP) -- An all-encompassing climate deal "may be beyond our reach for now," the U.N. chief said Tuesday as China and India delivered a setback to European plans to negotiate a new treaty that would bind all parties to their pledges on greenhouse gas emissions. http://phys.org/news242394540.html Space & Earth Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:20:01 EST news242394540 China's top climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua on Sunday laid out conditions under which Beijing would accept a legally-binding climate deal that would go into force after 2020, when current voluntary pledges run out. http://phys.org/news242274724.html Space & Earth Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:50:01 EST news242274724 (AP) -- Smule, maker of apps such as Glee Karaoke, is hoping to make beautiful music with fellow app creator Khush through an acquisition announced Thursday. http://phys.org/news241965144.html Technology Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:20:01 EST news241965144 A European drive to forge a legally-binding deal on climate change by 2015 that would include all major carbon polluters is "too much", a senior Chinese negotiator said at UN talks here. http://phys.org/news241864876.html Space & Earth Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:41:30 EST news241864876 South Korea's top mobile carrier SK Telecom said Monday it signed a deal to buy a controlling stake in Hynix Semiconductor, the world's number two memory chip maker. http://phys.org/news240467212.html Technology Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:27:14 EST news240467212