Can AT & T absorb a giant like Telefónica?

AT & T entered 127.400 million dollars in 2012, and since the beginning of year repeated towards information that looks closely at the European market.

It is being the news of the day. AT & T giant American Telecom would have made an offer to buy Telefonica.

The sum that was the Edition in the El Mundo newspaper today spoke of 70 billion euros more 52 billion euros in debt absorption of the Spanish company.

As soon as the information has been known the competent authorities and the party involved have refused such proposals.

The Minister Soria has declared not to know the interests of the United States in the Spanish company. Telefónica has sent a statement to the National Commission of the stock market by denying any kind of interest from AT & T.

Reportedly holding the Spanish newspaper, the Executive of Mariano Rajoy would have exerted of retaining wall for which such offer is fraguase claiming that Telefónica is a strategic company for the interests of Spain.

You have carried out such an offer and have agreed to the operation, it would be the most important business movement of recent years. The most important in the history of Spain.

But can AT & T afford an acquisition of such weight?

The most important Telecom of United States he entered in 2012 a total of 127.400 million dollars (movement for the purchase of Telefonica would 93.000 million dollars). Only in the first three months of the year it reported consolidated 31,400 million revenues.

The giant has launched the largest United States 4 G network and is the leading provider of wireless, high speed internet and voice and cloud services.

The hypothetical acquisition of phone I would have allowed it to strengthen its presence in Latin America, market that is disputed with the Spanish teleco. The U.S. maintains a 9% stake in America Movil, important Mexican player of the phone with more than 230 million mobile subscribers.

The purchase had also favored the presence of the U.S. in the European market. As The Wall Street Journal, the CEO of AT & T, Randall Stephenson admitted recently that Europe was a complicated procurement market.

These statements made them shortly after rumours pointed to a possible agreement between AT & T and Verizon to launch a takeover bid for the British Vodafone.

CIOs speak of their budget priorities

Technology investments focus on priority issues such as the computing in the cloud via SaaS services and aimed at the mobile TI paradigm shift.

The consultancy Forrester said early year to TI business spending will grow in 2013 a 5.4%.

As detailed consultancy firm, this year will be transitional until 2014, when it is expected to global technology spending to increase by 6.7%.

But CIOs have already established their priorities for investment, as ZDNet in a meeting held with representatives of the industry alongside the body of professional services of the Australian Institute of management (AIM).

CIOs have given their points of view about preferences of TI in their companies, devoting significant budget items to priority as the cloud computing topics through software as a service (SaaS), information security and change mobile aimed at the TI paradigm.

CRM software (Customer Relationship Management) will also be one of the main focuses of the expenditure in enterprise applications around the world this year and the next, according to data presented recently by the Gartner research firm.

Companies are heading for the mass introduction of mobile devices, which require changes in its technology, investment strategy to make that many of its services are accessible without any problems from any device.

The Forrester report has seeded the arrival of mobile technologies companies need that they will accompany changes in corporate organization and new business processes and address.

'Tweet' is already an official word in English

From 2011 the 'retweet' concept was collected in the dictionary as the first technological terminology referring to the social network Twitter.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has just recognize 'tweet' as official word in English.

In the update of its June edition, scholar and most complete English language dictionary as well as the main reference point for the etymological studies of this language, incorporates this new terminor, as both noun and verb use.

The popular concept he has joined with a set of technological terms that has been collected in the latest edition of the dictionary, such as 'big data', 'crowdsourcing', 'mouseover', 'e-reader' and're-direct'.

As reports AllThingsD, an exception has been made in the case of 'tweet' for your RAID, since one basic rule to incorporate a new Word is that you wearing active at least 10 years before considering their inclusion.

John Simpson, Chief Editor of the OED, explained that this term has already permeated the population and hence its adoption.

On the other hand, the word 'tweet' was present in the dictionary since 1851 with another meaning, that of sound imitation of the singing of the birds. It has now expanded its meaning, by adding to the definition of "Act of making a publication on the social network Twitter service".

A curious question, however, is that the OED had already added the term 'retweet' in 2011, without knowing exactly why you picked up this concept first 'tweet'.

She resigned one of the founders of the startup Square

Tristan or ' Tierney, an entrepreneur who in 2009 founded Square mobile payments along with Executive service as the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, has decided to leave the company.

In the 4 years that has been in the company, or ' Tierney has been responsible for the technical part mainly for creating applications of Square which will operate in the iOS universe, while Dorsey is in charge of business operations.

Or ' Tierney's professional career is varied and includes work as an engineer expert in Mac computers for companies like Yahoo, Apple, or VMWare.

It is also responsible for Twinkle, one of the first customers for Twitter which appeared in the app store Apple's App Store.

In the case of Square, during these four years in which it had to or ' Tierney in your template, the startup has managed to raise 341 million dollars and has expanded to reach businesses of all sizes.

It has also introduced a software suite that allows businesses to perform online tasks such as the checkout of the products purchased by customers, and includes tools for management and analysis of data.

The progress of O'Tierney, which has not clarified which will be their future, join others lost recent for Square, and Keith Rabois, Chief Operating Officer of the company who had to leave her to be accused of having sexually abused an employee, or Alyssa Cutright, Vice President of the international business of the startup.

The EU moves ahead in the research of Android against Google

The agreements of the Internet giant with mobile telecom operators and mobile phone manufacturers are analyzed to find out if it has blocked competition.

European authorities, investigating Google since 2010 by practices antitrust, could be considering the option of force to change parts of the Android business.

A report of the Financial Times suggested recently that Google might be forced to make modificcaiones on its Android platform, without specifying what measures.

Now, regulators antitrust of the European Union (EU) are referring to the manufacturers of mobile phones and mobile telecommunications operators on their agreements with Google around Android.

The aim is to find out if they the Internet giant has locked to mobile rivals, which could lead to a second investigation of the company.

According to Reuters, the Commission has asked the suppliers if agreements on Android with Google "contained clauses that them they even or limiting release or distribute not Android devices".

The competition authorities also want to know if there have been restrictions for Android devices that do not comply with the requirements of compatibility of Google.

Respondents have until July 26 to respond to the list of 82 questions that could determine if the Commission will open a new investigation into Google, which currently tries to alleviate the consequences of the abuse of dominant position in the EU.

Microsoft Office Mobile for iOS is already in the United States.UU.

From today you can find in the store of Apple applications in the United States.UU. the new Office suite from Microsoft for iOS devices.

After a long time of speculation and rumors, it has finally happened. An official with all the benefits of Office application from Microsoft is available for iOS devices.

As reported by The Next Web, the so-called Mobile Office already operational for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, although at the moment only available for users of Office 365, that from today they can be found in the Apple App Store in the United States.UU.

For users of iOS with a subscription to Office 365 this means that you can access, view and edit any previously saved file in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint.

The application extracts all the files for the users of the cloud, allowing Office documents can be stored and downloaded from SkyDrive, SkyDrive Pro and SharePoint.

The suite also includes a system of synchronization, so the recent documents that have been edited or that have been accessed on a device - for example a desktop computer or a tablet of Microsoft - shown in the iOS application through a panel of documents.

The release significantly increases the value of the service of Office 365 with richer graphics and animation content.

As Microsoft has confirmed in a statement, the new application will reach 135 markets, including Spain, in brief, and will be translated into 29 languages.

Telefonica refused an offer of purchase of AT & T

The Spanish teleco denies any kind of offer.

The teleco American giant AT & T Spanish Telefonica has denied reports that this morning unveiled the newspaper El Mundo on the launch of a takeover bid by part.

First thing in the morning, the Spanish newspaper launched pump: the most important operator of United States would have interested the the Spanish teleco and would have offered $ 70 billion for purchasing. It also offered him the absorption of its debt, worth 52 billion dollars.

Reportedly, the Government of Mariano Rajoy through the competent ministries (economy and industry) has been who has stopped the operation, considering the company as a strategic value for the interests of the country.

The company has denied through a statement to the National Commission of the stock market any type of offer. "It has not received any approach, nor any indication of interest written or verbal, of no one," told from the Teleco.

César Alierta company listed on the rise since the information have been known. Currently listed 2.89% above the value in the opening of the markets.