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AT&T Seen Selling DirecTV Assets In Latin America

AT&T (T) could be open to selling DirecTV’s Latin American assets rather than expanding further in the region, based on its comments Wednesday at its analysts day event in Dallas. AT&T closed its acquisition of satellite broadcaster DirecTV in late July. DirecTV has 20.4 million U.S. subscribers and 12.7 million subscribers in Latin America, not including 6.8 million Sky Mexico subscribers. DirecTV owns a 41% stake in Sky Mexico. Brazil, battered

Samsung debuts new phablets weeks before next iPhone

Hoping to regain ground it lost to Apple (AAPL) in big-screen smartphones, Samsung Electronics on Thursday debuted two new phablets. Samsung had the phone-tablet market largely to itself for three years until last September, when Apple responded with the iPhone 6 Plus. Samsung’s newest phablets feature 5.7-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED displays, compared with the 5.5-inch LED-backlit IPS LCD screen on Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus. “Bigger screens have gone

Apple Chipmaker Skyworks Expands Japanese Operations

Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) stock was up nearly 1% Thursday afternoon, after the Apple (AAPL) chip supplier announced it will expand operations in Osaka, Japan. Skyworks teamed up with Osaka-based Panasonic in April 2014 to design and develop high-performance filters for use in mobile devices and the emerging Internet Of Things markets. Skyworks expects its expansion — a two-story, 405,000-square-foot facility — to be complete by September,