ThinkstockWhen the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) last looked at pay TV providers, the view was not very pretty. A report released Friday by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) likely reveals why.…
When Warren Buffett adds a new stock to his Berkshire Hathaway portfolio, everyone notices. When hedge fund managers John Paulson and Kyle Bass add the same stock, everyone pays more attention.
In all the years we have covered the Buffett holdings each and every quarter, we have finally seen Team Buffett make a serious acquisition of a telecom stock: Verizon Communications.
ThinkstockThe number of TV channels the average American commands through the living room remote control has risen by nearly 50% in the past six years. And now those channels are becoming increasingly…
Wikimedia CommonsShort sellers continue to hold huge positions not only in troubled companies like J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP), but also in blue chips like AT&T Corp. (NYSE:T) and Bank of America (NYSE:…
thinkstockMay 8, 2014: Markets opened lower on Thursday and posted solid gains on a good report on new claims for jobless benefits. Momentum stocks lost their get-up-and-go in the afternoon, though, and…
Dish Network reported mixed first-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Thursday morning. The good news for Dish here is that broadband revenue doubled to $83 million.
DirecTV reported better-than-expected first-quarter 2014 earnings before markets opened Tuesday morning, but revenue fell short. Shares were up in Tuesday's premarket trading.
courtesy of Verizon WirelessOn the face of it, AT&T Inc.’s (NYSE: T) has a better dividend than Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ). AT&T’s payout is 5.2% at $1.84. Verizon’s is 4.5% at…
DirecTV shares put up a new 52-week high Thursday on a report that AT&T may be interested in acquiring the largest U.S. satellite TV company. Such a combination would serve about 26…
Maybe Sprint will buy T-Mobile , just like Comcast may buy Time Warner Cable. If either deal gets through the gauntlet of government regulation, it will be because certain assets have been…
So let's get this straight: Sprint posts a net loss of $151 million and the shares surge because the company did not lose as much as analysts expected? And what about those…
Charter Communications seems to have driven a harder bargain with Comcast than was first reported. In the deal announced Monday, Comcast agreed to divest systems with about 3.9 million subscribers.
ThinkstockA lot of pixels have been burned since last Thursday’s release of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Tom Wheeler’s defense of his draft for proposed rules for maintaining an open Internet.…
courtesy of Alex Proimos, via Wikimedia CommonsShort sellers continue to hold huge positions not only in troubled companies like J.C. Penney and Alcoa, but also in blue chips like AT&T and General…
