T-Mobile and Sprint finally, officially, say they definitely won’t merge

Enlarge / T-Mobile and Sprint stores in Herald Square in New York City in 2011. (credit: Getty Images | Richard Levine ) T-Mobile USA and Sprint today finally gave a definitive answer about whether they will merge. The telecomm giants said that they have stopped negotiating and will remain independent entities. The wireless carriers “were unable […]

Akzo Nobel is in talks to merge with a smaller US rival (AXTA)

Reuters/Toby Sterling and Bart H. Meijer Akzo Nobel is in talks to merge with US rival Axalta Coating Systems. A deal would create a $ 30 billion company.    (Reuters) – Dutch paints maker Akzo Nobel , under pressure after rejecting a lucrative takeover offer and two profit warnings, has confirmed merger talks with smaller U.S. rival […]

YouTube Red and Google Play Music may merge into one service

(credit: Flickr: Rego Korosi ) Google is notorious for having many services that do similar things, like its array of chat apps. Google’s music services have been fragmented for years, but the company may change that soon. According to a report from The Verge, YouTube’s head of music Lyor Cohen stated at the New Music Seminar conference in […]

Uber and Yandex merge their ridesharing services to form a new company targeting Russia and neighboring markets

Here’s a bolt out of the blue: Uber is partnering with Yandex, the Google of Russia, to launch a new standalone company that merges their respective ridesharing services to target Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, and Georgia. The new company, tentatively titled “NewCo,” will be 59.3 percent owned by Yandex, 36.6 percent owned by Uber, […]

Elon Musk wants to merge man and machine – here’s what he’ll need to do

AP Photo/Jack Plunkett Computers and brains already talk to each other daily in high-tech labs – and they do it better and better. For example, disabled people can now learn to govern robotic limbs by the sheer power of their mind. The hope is that we may one day be able to operate spaceships with […]

Elon Musk launches Neuralink, a venture to merge the human brain with AI

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is backing a brain-computer interface venture called Neuralink, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company, which is still in the earliest stages of existence and has no public presence whatsoever, is centered on creating devices that can be implanted in the human brain, with the eventual purpose of […]

Star Wars: WATCH Rogue One ending merge DIRECTLY into A New Hope

Gareth Edwards’ movie finished shortly before Episode IV began, showing Princess Leia receiving the Death Star plans. Now, a fan-made supercut links the two together, proving all the dots are in fact correctly joined. The nine-minute effort has been shared by Barre Fong on Vimeo, accumulating tens of thousands of views. Watch below. Over recent […]