Telecom
Microsoft continues to take on US government over data disclosures from foreign server
11 Dec 2014
Microsoft has chosen to continue taking on the US government in a legal battle over whether US authorities could use a warrant to extract data from servers located abroad
I-T dept within its jurisdiction in Vodafone transfer pricing case: ITAT
10 Dec 2014
The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, however, sent the case back to the I-T department to decide afresh on the taxable income of Vodafone India and revise the Rs8,500 crore tax claim accordingly
Cable king Patrick Drahi’s Altice seals $9.1 bn buyout of Oi’s Portuguese assets
10 Dec 2014
Altice, a multinational cable and telecommunications company with a presence in France, Israel, Belgium and Luxembourg, Portugal, French West Indies / Indian Ocean Area and Dominican Republic and Switzerland beat a rival bid by PE firms Apax Partners and Bain Capital
Telenor and TeliaSonera to merge Danish operations into equal JV
03 Dec 2014
The merged entity will have a combined mobile subscriber base of around 3.5 million, market share of approximately 40 per cent, revenues of more than DKK 9 billion ($1.5 bn) and significant synergy potential
