T-Mobile and Dish Consider a Merger & Other News You Need to Know Now

T-Mobile and Dish Network are in merger talks. Both have long been seeking M&As, a favorite pastime among telcos, with Sprint and AT&T for the former, Sprint and DirectTV for the latter. It’s not the most obvious marriage – as Re/code’s Ina Fried writes, it’s “akin to two people who hook up because they are the last ones left in the bar at closing time” –  but this should also make it easier to get past regulators. 

US investigators revealed their source in the FIFA corruption case: Chuck Blazer, an American former FIFA exec. He admitted accepting or facilitating bribes in the attribution of the 1998 and 2010 World Cups as well as broadcasting rights. Investigators are also looking into the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in Qatar and Russia. 

Greece turned down the bailout plan put together by its creditors. Any deal must come from a Greek proposal that excludes spending cuts or tax increases, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said. The country will make Friday’s 300 million payment, he added. 

For the anniversary of the Tiananmen protests today, China as usual censored all references to 6/4/1989. That included blocking money transfers on Tencent’s WeChat app of any amount using the digits 64 and 89. This of course generated more social media chatter and press attention than any 26th anniversary could ever hope. 

China has “put out feelers” about joining the Trans Pacific Partnership eventually, Barack Obama said. It’d be a pretty big deal to have the world’s second economy agree to this set of stricter labor, environmental and trade rules. 

The American Red Cross completely botched its reconstruction efforts in Haiti. A ProPublica investigation shows the charity raised half a billion dollars after the 2010 earthquake – and has six houses to show for it. 

Online advertising budgets should eclipse TV budgets by 2019, according to PriceWaterhouseCoopers research. Mobile should pass paid search before year’s end and 2016 will be a last hurrah for TV with the Olympics and US elections. No Super Bowl in the online world. 

Chris Sacca wrote a 8,500-word missive on what Twitter should do next. The early investor says Twitter failed to tell its story to Wall Street and media but is actually making progress in the right direction. Sacca also thinks an acquisition by Google would make total sense. 

Uber went big for its fifth birthday party. Maybe a bit over the top even. 

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