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Verizon Seeks to Shake Up Fees for TV Channels
Verizon Communications is proposing to shake up the pay-television business based on a simple premise: it wants to tie the fees it pays to carry TV channels to how many people actually watch them.The Truth About Pay TV: It’s Still Not Shrinking
Reuters says 400,000 Americans have stopped paying for TV this year. That’s not true.
Want Gigabit Internet? You Don’t Have to Move to Kansas City.
But you probably will have to move.
Verizon and Redbox Start Testing Their New Web Video Service: Here’s What to Expect
Another competitor gears up to take on Netflix. But this one will focus on movies — and DVDs.
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Verizon Earnings in Line
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.Verizon Won’t Talk About Its Talks to Build a Netflix-Style Service. But It Is Definitely Talking.
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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Netflix Down on Report of Verizon Video Streaming Plans
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.Here’s How Microsoft Is Adding Voice Control and Gestures to the Xbox (Video)
Michael Suraci, Xbox’s director of marketing, demonstrates the new features, which will roll out in a massive free software update, available Tuesday.
Facebook to Big Media: We Like You. We Really, Really Like You.
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.
IPads Perform Better on Wi-Fi Than 4G?
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.