Tricia Duryee
Jul 27, 2010 4:32 PM
A year after Sprint (NYSE: S) paid $480 million to buy Virgin Mobile USA, the carrier is seeing a trio of executive departures. Dan Schulman, Sprint’s president of prepaid, announced last week that he was leaving to join American Express as group president of enterprise growth. We have also learned…
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Tricia Duryee
Jun 27, 2008 1:26 PM
Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) today announced that they will be acquiring Los Angeles-based Helio, a competitor backed by SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) and EarthLink, for $39 million. The deal is complicated because it also includes cash and debt infusions by SK Telecom and the Virgin Group, and a favorable…
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Tricia Duryee
May 20, 2008 12:25 PM
Perhaps this is more validation for the mobile advertising space because it shows no stone is being left unturned. Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) announced today that AOL’s Platform-A (NYSE: AOL) will be the exclusive display advertising and sales partner for its more than 5 million subscribers. As small as…
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Rafat Ali
Apr 1, 2008 9:43 PM
This should get some more fuel to the Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) naysayers who have hammered the stock in the last month or so after disappointing earnings (though his other move listed below might mollify them a bit): CEO Dan Schulman took in $11.4 million in 2007 compensation, which…
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