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Peter Kafka in Mobile on January 24 at 4:50 am PT
Verizon posted Q4 earnings of $0.52 a share on revenue of $28.4 billion, in line with Wall Street’s consensus. The company’s wireless unit added one million customers over the quarter, while its video FiOS offering added another 200,000.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 7, 2011 at 7:46 am PT
Because pretty much everyone is talking about building their own Web video service. But like pay TV competitor Dish Network, Verizon seems to be taking the idea seriously.
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Tiernan Ray, Reporter, Tech Trader Daily, Barron's in News on December 6, 2011 at 12:45 pm PT
Shares of Netflix are down are down 2 percent, perhaps in part because Verizon Communications is planning to offer its own streaming video service on the Internet, according to a report by Reuters.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 4, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT
Michael Suraci, Xbox’s director of marketing, demonstrates the new features, which will roll out in a massive free software update, available Tuesday.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 16, 2010 at 3:30 am PT
Facebook has 550 million friends, but it’s working extra hard to woo a very specific group: Heavyweight media companies. It might be working! See: A proposed linkup between the social network, Time Warner’s cable channels and Verizon’s FiOS TV.
John Paczkowski in News on November 5, 2010 at 5:30 am PT
IPad owners living in a Clearwire 4G wireless zone and considering purchasing one of the company’s new iSpot base stations to enhance the device’s connectivity may want to hold off. Because according to a new report from BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk, the iPad doesn’t perform as well on Clearwire’s 4G iSpots as it does on typical Wi-Fi access points.
John Paczkowski in News on August 19, 2010 at 4:00 am PT
“It’s a software set-top box.” That’s how Verizon CTO Shaygan Kheradpir describes the company’s FIOS TV app, which will bring live TV to Apple’s iPad–as long as you’re already a FIOS subscriber. And you’re using the app inside your own home.
John Paczkowski in News on August 3, 2010 at 2:26 pm PT
Motorola has developed an Android tablet and hopes to launch it before the end of the year. This according to people briefed on the company’s plans who
tell The Financial Times that it could hit stores “as early as this autumn.” The device is said to have a 10-inch screen and front and back-facing cameras for video capture and conferencing. And it’s rumored to be both thinner and lighter than Apple’s iPad. Beyond that, it’s main competitive advantage over the iPad is believed to be
FiOS TV integration thanks to a deal with Verizon. And that could be key, since
Apple hasn’t yet managed to roll out that subscription TV service it’s been working on.
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Roger Cheng, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 21, 2010 at 3:28 pm PT
Verizon Communications Inc. will begin promoting an option to sign up for its FiOS television and Internet services on a month-to-month basis at the same price as long-term contracts and without early termination fees.
The move, less than six months after Verizon doubled its FiOS termination fee, follows a wave of advertisements from cable rivals such as Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. slamming Verizon and its FiOS service as restrictive and knocking the practice of early termination fees.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 12, 2010 at 3:38 pm PT
Comcast wants you to know it loves Web video. Time Warner, too. Just keep paying your cable bill, okay?
