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AT&T Seeks to Top Verizon’s Bid for Yahoo

No committed financing was required for second-round bids, and Yahoo will assemble in the coming days a new shortlist of bidders from which it will solicit binding offers.

By Reuters

Buying a Franchise

From After-School Job to Franchise Career

By Jason Daley

Business News

Verizon to Submit $3 Billion Bid for Yahoo’s Internet Business

By Reuters

Business News

Verizon, Unions Agree to Pay Raises, New Jobs to End Strike

By Reuters

Business News

Verizon and Unions Reach Tentative Deal to End Labor Strike

Network technicians and customer service representatives in the company's Fios Internet, telephone and television services units walked off the job on April 13 after contract talks hit an impasse.

By Reuters

Business News

U.S. Jobless Claims Hit 14-month High; Analysts Blame Verizon Strike

Economists said the data did not signal a deterioration in the overall labor market.

By Reuters

Building a Business

Verizon Says Strike Causing Delays in Service for New Customers

Nearly 40,000 employees walked off the job Wednesday.

By Reuters

Business News

Verizon a Favorite in Upcoming Yahoo Bid

Verizon's been interested in Yahoo since December.

By Reuters

Building a Business

About 40,000 Verizon Unionized Workers Strike Over Contract Talks

The company and the union are at an impasse with issues like healthcare, offshoring call center jobs, work rules and pensions.

By Reuters

Building a Business

Verizon Readies Bid for Yahoo’s Web Business, While Google Also Looking for a Piece

Yahoo launched an auction of its core business in February after it shelved plans to spin off its stake in Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba.

By Reuters

Business News

Verizon Stakes a Claim on YouTube Traffic With Partial Purchase of AwesomenessTV

AwesomenessTV, which has more than 3.6 million subscribers on YouTube, offers videos on everything from beauty tips to life advice aimed at pre-teens and young adults.

By Reuters

Business News

Report: Yahoo Sets April 11 Deadline for Preliminary Bids

Bidders were asked details about financing, conditions or approvals the company would need to meet, according to The Wall Street Journal.

By Reuters

Business News

Netflix Admits to Lessening Video Quality on Verizon, AT&T Phones

The company said it had been doing this for five years to protect customers from exceeding their mobile data limits.

By Reuters

Business News

Verizon Hacked, With Data of 1.5 Million Customers Stolen

The seller priced the entire package at $100,000, but offered to sell it off in parts of 100,000 records for $10,000 apiece.

By Reuters

Business News

Verizon Wireless to Cough Up $1.35 Million Over ‘Supercookies’

The largest U.S. mobile firm inserted unique tracking codes in its users traffic for advertising purposes.

By Reuters

Business News

New York Attorney General Investigating Possible Broadband Speed Overcharges

Verizon, Cablevision and Time Warner are all involved in the probe.

By Reuters

Business News

This Company Wants to Build a Nationwide Wireless Network for the Internet of Things

Ingenu is being backed by several big names in the wireless industry.

By Stacey Higginbotham

Building a Business

Verizon to Start Testing 5G in 2016

The company is going to start experimenting with the upgraded tech in California and Massachusetts

By Ben Berkowitz

Building a Business

Verizon Strips Down Its Logo in Lukewarm Reboot

Simple. Check. Scalable. Check. Already hated on by T-Mobile CEO John Legere. Six checks.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Business News

No Strike for Now as Verizon, Unions Continue to Negotiate

Current contracts have expired, but Verizon employees are still at work.

By Reuters

Thought Leaders

What Will AOL’s Tim Armstrong Bring to Verizon?

Experts weigh in on what the AOL's CEO will do for the U.S. wireless carrier.

By Nina Zipkin

Building a Business

10 Tech Startups Valued Higher Than AOL’s $4.4 Billion

A roundup of hot tech firms already valued at more than what AOL, a veritable Internet antique, is selling for.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Business News

Verizon to Buy AOL in $4.4 Billion Deal

The acquisition gives the biggest U.S. wireless carrier access to AOL's mobile video platform and content including the Huffington Post news website.

By Reuters

Business News

T-Mobile’s Latest Attack on Verizon Is a Masterful Marketing Maneuver

T-Mobile has co-opted an existing Verizon ad campaign and is offering Verizon customers a free two-week trial in hopes of luring them away from the provider.

By Geoff Weiss

Business News

Verizon to Offer Custom Pay TV Bundles

By allowing more flexibility, Verizon hopes to lure customers away from cable rivals and upstart Web TV companies.

By Reuters

Building a Business

Google Partners With Wireless Carriers to Push Wallet Service

The idea is to pre-install Google's electronic payment service on phones, as the companies seek to counter Apple Inc's recent entry into the nascent market for mobile payments.

By Reuters

Business News

Move Over AT&T and Verizon: This Cable Giant Is Getting Into the Phone Service Game

The idea is to give people an alternative to pricier data plans from the big cellular companies.

By Reuters

Building a Business

Verizon CEO: No ‘Significant’ Talks to Buy AOL

Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam said reports that the company has held concrete talks to acquire AOL are 'not accurate.'

By CNBC

Tech

Talking Lamp Posts Are Just the Beginning in Verizon’s Vision of a Smart City

Given the costliness and fragmentation of the smart home market, Verizon Wireless has its sights set on a loftier prize.

By Geoff Weiss

Building a Business

U.S. Says Fourth Amendment Does Not Protect Digitally-Stored Data

A drug trafficking case in which the government is demanding Microsoft hand over emails stored in a Dublin datacenter has called into question Fourth Amendment rights in a digital era.

By Geoff Weiss