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Verizon Service Now On CTA Subways

Crain's Chicago Business | Lorene Yue | Posted 09.30.2008 | Chicago


he Chicago Transit Authority has signed a service agreement with Verizon Wireless, making it the second mobile carrier to offer service in Chicago's s...

Mortgage Crisis Causes DISH Network To Fall Off The Roof

Shelly Palmer | Posted 09.11.2008 | Business


Shelly Palmer

DISH may have a great deal of trouble attracting high end users who are more likely to need broadband service and are less likely be interested in DISH because of the lack of HD programming.

U.S. Will Never Become a Mobile-Centric Culture

Nina Spezzaferro | Posted 09.07.2008 | Home


Nina Spezzaferro

Americans traveling to the Olympics in Beijing and Hong Kong have been struck by the sophistication of Asia's mobile devices. While the Asian mobile m...

Verizon CEO: iPhone Is No Big Deal, And I Hope Steve Jobs Retires Soon

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 07.05.2008 | Business


Some trash talk from pugnacious Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, via the FT: While describing Apple as a "great company", Mr Seidenberg highlights its sm...

AT&T launches TV service on new phones, rivaling Verizon

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 05.09.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — AT&T Inc. is launching its new video service for cell phones Sunday on two phones, and will charge $15 per month for 10 channels. AT...

Verizon Cancels Returning Marines' Cellphones, Fines Them $500

Consumerist | Bob | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Two Marines, a husband and wife, found Verizon had an unpleasant welcome-home gift waiting for them when they got back from serving in Iraq: canceled ...

3 Cell Carriers in Price Battle

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless introduced an unlimited calling plan $99.99 a month on Tuesday, a move that was quickly matched by AT&T Mobility and...

Stocks Rise on Rate Cut Hopes

AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — A jittery Wall Street advanced Monday, reversing some of Friday's sharp losses as investors took a dismal new home sales report as a ...

Regulators Eye Possible Insider Trading At Banks

Wall Street Journal | MARK MAREMONT and SUSANNE CRAIG | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


In the spring of last year, two investment arms of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. began accumulating shares in Rural Cellular Corp., a small Minnesota provid...

Top 10 Business Debacles Of 2007

Consumerist | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Maybe we're just getting better at the job but it seems like the debacles this year were bigger and more scandalous than last year. Every time we turn...

Dogs Of The Dow

24/7 Wall Street | John C. Ogg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The Dogs of the Dow aren't necessarily the worst performers of the prior year, but they pay the highest the dividend yields. We wanted to review the ...

Verizon, Sprint In "Advanced Discussions With Google"

Wall Street Journal | Amol Sharma | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Google Inc. is in advanced talks with two top U.S. cellphone operators, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp., about selling handsets tailored to i...

Verizon In Talks With Google About Partnership

Wall Street Journal | Amol Sharma | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


After opposing Google Inc.'s moves to dramatically reshape the wireless industry, Verizon Wireless is now in serious discussions with the Internet com...

Verizon Weathers iPhone Storm For Better-Than-Expected Q3

Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Verizon Wireless is still growing strong and the iPhone didn't cause an implosion. While AT&T added more customers overall last quarter thanks to the ...

Facebook Courts Nike, Apple, Sony, And Others For New Ad Platform

Radar | Neel Shah | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


With the November 6 D-Day of Facebook's new advertising platform approaching, speculation is mounting as to what, exactly, the Palo Alto-based company...

Trump Tenants To Get Uber-Fast Internet

Silicon Valley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


As if living in one of Donald Trump's buildings isn't its own reward, residents of two of The Donald's towers can soon claim the fastest Internet acce...

Verizon Admits Providing Govt With Phone Records Without A Court Order

Washington Post | Ellen Nakashima | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Verizon Communications, the nation's second-largest telecom company, told congressional investigators that it has provided customers' telephone record...

Verizon Reverses Decision To Block Pro-Choice Group's Text Message Program

The New York Times | ADAM LIPTAK | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Saying it had the right to block "controversial or unsavory" text messages, Verizon Wireless last week rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice Americ...

Patent-Holding Firm Sues AT&T, Sprint, And Verizon

CNet News | Tom Krazit | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Remember NTP? They're back. The holding company that brought BlackBerry Nation to its knees in 2006 is once again on the advance, this time filing su...