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T-Mobile And Sprint Merger Puts Spotlight On 5G At Retail

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Regardless of whether you think it’s a good idea for the market or a legal misstep, the T-Mobile and Sprint merger is going to put 5G on a faster track. Exactly how fast the technology will be a consumer factor depends on the prognosticator you subscribe to. But one thing is clear.

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Apple Asks Suppliers For Less iPhone Parts

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Additionally, demand for the iPhone X might have soured due to its price tag: It retails for around $1,000. One industry insider told the Nikkei Asian Review that, as a result, “Apple is quite conservative in terms of placing new orders for upcoming iPhones this year.”. Cook also noted that top seller status has been true in the U.S.

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Uber Ups Its Game With Scooters

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One of the biggest stories in retail continues to be Uber’s effort to move well beyond its core offering of automotive ridesharing. For instance, Chinese bikesharing company Mobike , which once attracted billions from big-name investors, said it is closing down all of its operations around the world, to focus solely on China.

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Alibaba Is Taking On Alexa, Google Home, DingDong and Little Fish With New Smart Speaker

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It’s not just the “Amazon of China.” Still, it has the potential to disrupt sales for American companies such as Apple, which sells its products in China and may have been planning to release its HomePod smart speaker there (though no such plan had yet been unveiled at the time of Alibaba’s announcement). Alibaba isn’t just a copycat.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

Barry Ritholtz

But the good news is you finish at one, you could go out surfing. One is we were securitizing the assets in the auto loan and selling them off to other asset managers because we weren’t able to buy them ourselves. ” Who are the number one users of TurboTax? Plus, the rules change every year. RITHOLTZ: Right?

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

Barry Ritholtz

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest. He is the founder of Operation HOPE and one of the leading voices for financial literacy. That’s my favorite one. I mean, no one’s ever taught me that. Sir, your business card, can I have one?”

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The Tepid Reaction To Apple’s New Products

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There were some unanticipated announcements and roll-outs; before yesterday no one on Earth had ever heard the word “slofie” before and as of today it seems to be Twitter’s favorite word. Apple also rolled out a new social sharing app called Clips, a first-of-a-kind move by Apple that no one forecast ahead of the event.