Technology Report: AT&T-DirecTV merger may hinge on NFL agreement

	Click to View in Browser 05/19/2014 AT&T-DirecTV merger may hinge on NFL agreement (Reuters) - If DirecTV is unable to strike a deal with the National Football League to renew the satellite TV operator's contract to offer the popular NFL Sunday Ticket football package, AT&T Inc can pull out of the merger, according to a regulatory filing. France's Publicis wins $500 million deal with Facebook: Ad Age (Reuters) - France's Publicis Groupe SA has won a digital marketing deal with Facebook Inc worth about $500 million including spending, website Ad Age reported citing an executive familiar with the matter. AT&T deal opens era of competition with Mexico's Slim MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - For a generation, AT&T and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's telephone business stood side by side and grew to become giants of the industry north and south of the Rio Grande. Google acquires mobile service company Divide SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc said it has acquired Divide, a company whose software allows corporations to manage the personal smartphones that consumers increasingly use on the job. Alibaba: the new face of finance in China BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - For Yuan Yue, a Chinese graduate student in international trade, moving all of her spare cash to an online investment fund called Yu'e Bao was a no brainer. U.S. accuses China of cyber spying on American companies WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. grand jury has indicted five Chinese military officers on charges of hacking into American companies for information on nuclear plant design, solar manufacturing and other secrets in the toughest action taken by Washington to address cyber spying. Google's YouTube to buy streaming-video site Twitch for $1 billion: Variety (Reuters) - Google Inc's YouTube unit has reached a deal to acquire videogame-streaming service Twitch for more than $1 billion, according to a report in Variety, the entertainment news publication. Yahoo Japan drops $3.2 billion plan to buy eAccess from SoftBank TOKYO (Reuters) - Yahoo Japan Corp has dropped its plan to buy mobile network operator eAccess Ltd from SoftBank Corp in a 324 billion yen ($3.2 billion) deal that was part of a reorganization of SoftBank group assets. Authorities detain 80 in international cyber crime operation AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Police in 16 countries across the United States, western Europe and in Chile have seized cash, firearms and drugs and arrested 80 people suspected of peddling virus software believed to have infected hundreds of thousands of computers, according to European legal authorities. Post-Snowden, the NSA's future rests on Admiral Rogers' shoulders WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers seeks to repair the damage to the agency caused by leaks about its electronic spying programs, the abuses of government revealed in the wake of the Watergate scandal are very much on his mind. Related Video Mystery fish stumps scientists US Navy turns seawater into fuel Mediafile A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today   The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today   » MORE NEWSLETTERS - 3 Times Square New York, NY 10036 USA © Copyright 2010 Thomson Reuters Ensure delivery of Reuters Newsmails, add mail@nl.reuters.com to your address book. Details Subscribe to other Reuters newsletters. Unsubscribe from this newsletter. Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Forward to a friend