The CEO of Sprint owner SoftBank said he'll start a "massive price war" if his company can purchase T-Mobile US.Sprint is attempting to buy T-Mobile but hasn't reached an agreement yet. Even if it does, it could face opposition from a Federal Communications Commission that blocked AT&T's bid to purchase T-Mobile in 2011.

"We'd like to make a deal, but there are steps and details that we have to work out," SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son said on the Charlie Rose show this week. Rose suggested to Son that FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler might not want Sprint to buy T-Mobile because it would reduce wireless competition, but Son said that Sprint and T-Mobile today are "two little ones who are not able to fight without enough scale."

A combined Sprint/T-Mobile would turn the market into a "three heavyweight fight," Son said. "I would like to have the real fight, not a pseudo fight, the real fight," he said. "If I can have a real fight, I go in [with a] more massive price war."

Green Throttle

Rumors have been swirling that Google is going to jump into the home game console market with a set-top box. According to Pando Daily, Google has just snapped up a gaming company called "Green Throttle Games," the producer of a gaming controller for Android.

Green Throttle was created by some well-known players in the technology world. The founder of the company is Charles Huang, who also co-founded RedOctane (developer of the Guitar Hero series). The other two key employees were Matt Crowley and Karl Townsend, both long-term Palm employees. Green Throttle mysteriously shut down in November of last year, but judging by the LinkedIn profile timelines of Crowley and Townsend, the Google acquisition was the reason for the closure. According to Pando, the deal includes Green Throttle's staff, but Huang won't be joining Google, and he retains the rights over the Green Throttle business.

It's unclear what Google wants with the company. Green Throttle's product basically boiled down to an Xbox 360 controller clone and a game store app. One of the biggest features of the Green Throttle controller and app was that you could connect up to four controllers simultaneously to a smartphone or tablet. While the Bluetooth spec allowed for a connection to up to eight devices at once, Android can normally only connect to one Bluetooth device of each type.

A crazed cat is behind bars after it attacked a baby and held an Oregon family hostage in a bedroom, forcing them to call 911.

According to KPTV, the ferocious feline — a 22-pound Himalayan named Lux — “went over the edge” Sunday evening after it was punished for scratching a couple’s 7-month-old baby. The baby was not injured.

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When the peeved pet began charging at its owners, the family and their dog hid in a bedroom, where they called 911.

"He's got kind of a history of violence," the caller said, adding that the cat continued to charge whenever they tried to open the door.

When officers arrived on the scene, the fat cat “attempted to flee custody” by running into the kitchen. Police used a dog snare to trap Lux in a crate.

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"The cat remained behind bars in the custody of the family, and officers cleared the scene and continued to fight crime elsewhere in the city," Portland police said in a press release.

The family is still deciding whether to keep Lux, who has been acting “normal” since the incident.

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