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Mobile Minutes: Nokia’s return; AT&T-Time Warner merger; Startup market slumps; Netflix cozies to carriers

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Feb. 28, 2017

Nokia’s nostalgia trap: The hot old-is-new-again 3310
With the 3310, Finnish startup HMD got a stunt to get people to notice its Nokia comeback story. Now comes the hard part.
Read more at CNET

No AT&T-Time Warner merger review expected: U.S. regulator’s chairman
The head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission does not expect to review AT&T Inc’s (T.N) planned $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc (TWX.N), a spokesman for the agency said on Monday.
Read more at Reuters

Tech startup market sinks to lowest point in three years
The post-election rally that’s lifting U.S. public markets has left at least one group by the wayside: private technology startups.
Read more at Bloomberg

In global expansion, Netflix makes friends with carriers
As he sat in his office in central Paris, Christian Bombrun, an executive at Orange, the French cellphone and cable operator, got an unexpected call. It was Netflix, the American streaming giant, proposing a deal.
Read more at New York Times