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AT&T Looks To Rivals To Save T-Mobile Merger. Small companies like MetroPCS and Leap Wireless International may help save AT&T's merger with T-Mobile, Bloomberg reports. AT&T has approached the smaller companies, to learn their interest in buying up assets like spectrum and subscribers, sources said of the private talks. --NS
--Updated 7:25 a.m. EST.
Siemens Nixes Nuclear Plans. After Fukushima, Siemens has decided to back out of its planned collaboration with Russian nuclear power company Rastom Corp, and "close that chapter" on atomic power, CEO Peter Loescher told German weekly, Der Spiegel. The company will continue to make steam turbines for conventional and nuclear facilities, and will move ahead on renewable energy from wind turbines and solar power, Bloomberg reports. --NS
Google Buys German DailyDeals. Google is staying serious about daily deals, as indicated by its latest buy: Germany's Groupon lookalike, DailyDeals. This month, it expanded its home grown deals service, Google Offers, to 5 new cities, and recently bought the ratings company, Zagat. Google's latest acquisition is more evidence that even though Facebook closed its deals offering and Yelp halved its own, deals aren't dead. --NS
Facebook Partners With Diageo. Facebook is reported to have signed a deal with drinks giant Diageo to advertise its products on its social networking properties. The deal is also a partnership to maximise how to increase consumer chatter about Diageo's brands, and is based on research that shows earlier drinks adverts on Facebook boosted offline buys by as much as 20% in the U.S. --KE
Facebook To Make Media Sharing Easier. Executives from media companies told The New York Times that Facebook is to let their 750 million users more easily share the music, movies, and television shows they're consuming on their profile page. The details of the platform are vague, but are expected to be annouced officially at Facebook's F8 developer conference this Thursday. Music sharing companies Spotify, Rhapsody, Rdio and MOG are said to be part of the intial service launch. --NS
Apple To Fix iCloud ID Mess. In preparation for their iCloud cloud service launch, Apple is working on letting users merge their multiple Apple IDs into one account, reports Ars Technica. iCloud will replace MobileMe, which now lets users sync information from many devices and Apple IDs into one single source. MobileMe users will easily be able to convert their account to an iCloud account, but on services like iTunes, multiple IDs are still causing problems on the beta versions of the code. It's a sign iCloud is imminent. --NS
Japan's Defense Contractor Hacked. In the first known hack of its kind, Japan's biggest defence contractor, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, announced that its computers had been hacked. Company officials found 80 virus infected computers, which were linked with different manufacturing operations including submarines, escort ships, and weapons like surface-to-air Patriot missiles and AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missiles, Reuters reports. --NS
--Updated 5:00 a.m. EST
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