Check out our official website: http://us.tomonews.net/<br />Check out our Android app: http://goo.gl/PtT6VD<br />Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f<br /><br />------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />AT&T announced it plans to buy DirecTV, the top US satellite TV operator, for $48.5 billion in an attempt to grow beyond an increasingly hostile cellular market. <br /><br />The deal was announced on Sunday. AT&T said it is offering $95 per DirecTV share in a combination of cash and stock, a 10 percent premium over Friday's closing price of $86.18. The cash portion, $28.50 per share, will be financed by cash, asset sales, financing already lined up and other debt market transactions. <br /><br />If the deal is approved by US regulators, AT&T would add 20 million DirecTV customers to its paltry 5.7 million U-verse customers, plus another 18 million DirecTV customers in Latin America. <br /><br />With DirecTV, AT&T would become the No. 2 provider of television subscribers behind a combined Comcast-Time Warner Cable. AT&T and Comcast would control more than half the market for television packages. <br /><br />The problem for AT&T is that satellite TV subscriptions have flattened, and more customers are cutting the cable TV cord in favor of web-based options. The problem for consumers is that these days US regulators are really into Monopoly.<br /><br />------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Daily videos brought to you by THE Taiwanese Animators behind the infamous Tiger Woods animation. We got the funniest animations on the web to help you stay in-the-know on all the trending stories, so sit back, relax, and watch a few.<br /><br />Check out our Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nextmedia.gan<br />Check out our iOS app: https://itunes.apple.com/app/tomonews/id633875353<br /><br />Visit our channel for your daily dose of Taiwanese Animations:<br />https://www.youtube.com/user/NMAWorldEdition<br /><br />Wish all your news was animated? Subscribe now:<br />http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NMAWorldEdition<br /><br />Can't get enough of Taiwanese animations? Connect with us here:<br />Facebook http://www.facebook.com/NMAtv<br />Twitter @nmatv http://www.twitter.com/nmatv<br />Google+ http://gplus.to/NMAtv<br />Web http://us.tomonews.net/category/lol
