Cellular service users have been upset for years that the companies that give them their wireless connections often charge large fees if they break their contracts. Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ)(NYSE:VOD) has decided to charge a…
Reuters: The healthcare bill moved over key hurdles in the Senate. Reuters: Oil is above $73 on Iran-Iraq tensions. Reuters: Citadel filed for Chapter 11. Reuters: The head of AIG (NYSE:AIG) said…
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) has done what we expected would occur at some point soon. Despite some bad company public relations Friday over its network, the company raised its quarterly dividend. The…
AT&T (NASDAQ:T) has had trouble with its network, reported due to the huge amount of activity by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone customers. Today, the phone company’s PR firm, Fleishman-Hillard, put out a release…
These are this Thursday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: American Tower Corp. (NYSE: AMT) Started as Buy at Deutsche Bank. Amylin Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AMLN)…
AT&T (NYSE:T) is running out of potential customers to sell wireless handset subscriptions. The US market is nearly saturated and the battle is mostly for market share with Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ)(NYSE:VOD), Sprint…
Reuters: Affluent borrowers are being made credit card offers. Most other people are rarely solicited. Reuters: Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) will repay $45 billion in TARP funds. Reuters: AMR (NYSE:AMR) and TPG have offered…
24/7 Wall St. has prepared its list of the ten brands that will disappear in 2010. This list is based on a review of each firm’s financial situation and other operating data,…
Imagine an Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone with a very powerful processor that will work on both the AT&T (NYSE:T) and Verizon Wireless networks. Such a device would almost certainly broaden the iPhone’s appeal…
24/7 Wall St. sat down with Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) to talk about the company’s current subscriber growth issues, the firm’s WiMax roll-out, and the future of broadband telecommunications.…
Yesterday Soros Fund Management Filed a 13-F outlining the fund’s long portfolio as of September 30th, 2009. The total value of the holdings reported in the filing is $6,198,089. Twenty holdings represented…
Updated throughout the day. Ebay (NASDAQ:EBAY) PayPal profits will increase sharply in Q4. (TheStreet) A former lead director at Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) is pushing for the firm to pick an insider as the…
Updated throughout the day. Update 2.52 PM EST: The antitrust disagreement between Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and AMD (NYSE:AMD) may be resolved by a private settlement (MarketWatch) Updated 12.23 PM EST: Motorola (NYSE:MOT) may…
By Douglas A. McIntyre Some pieces of news are worth mentioning only in passing because they are interesting, but may not mean a thing. CNET says that over 100 people lined up…
T-Mobile, the Deutsche Telekom-owned cellular carrier in America, is a failure and an abject one at that. The firm lost 77,000 subscribers in the third quarter. Most analysts blame the attrition on…
