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Vodafone (VOD) Won’t Buy Verizon
The FT said that Vodafone (VOD) the huge cellular company, was looking at buying Verizon (VZ) for a premium of about 25% or $160 billion. Vodafone issued a denial. Whatever the merits…
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Verizon Wireless Revisited (VZ)(VOD)
Proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis has come out in favor of an activist proposal to put Vodafone’s (VOD) share of Verizon (V) Wireless "in a tracking stock or a new holding company",…
10:17am ET
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Nokia (NOK) And Skype’s Cellular Threat
Just as there is talk of the FCC opening up spectrum for companies to set up independent voice and data networks, Nokia (NOK) has announced that its adding Ebay’s (EBAY) Skype VoIP…
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AT&T (T) And Verizon (VZ): Worst Nightmare, Spectrum Sale
As the land-line businesses at large telcos like AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) have been eroded by technology, especially cable-delivered VoIP, earnings have been kept strong by their cellular divisions. Cell subscriber…
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Charter’s (CHTR) Big Year
Bulls on Charter Communications (CHTR) would argue that the company was almost out of business less than two years ago and that the shares deserve to have had a run. The other…
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Investing
Verizon’s (VZ) Friend: The Cable Box
There was a time when cable operators picked a box, generally from Motorola (MOT) or the Scientific Atlanta division of Cisco (CSCO). They rented the device out to customers and probably made…
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Investing
Did The Apple (AAPL) iPhone Sell Too Many Or Not Enough
Most media and analysts said that Apple (AAPL) sold over 500,000 iPhones and that the figure showed high than expected demand. TheStreet.com writes that Apple’s own goal was one million units and…
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T-Mobile Tries To Flank Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone
The New York Times writes that T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsch Telekom (DT) which ranks fourth in subscriber in the US cell market, is launching a line of phones that work on…
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Technology
FTC Ready to Kill Net Neutrality? (T, VZ, CMCSA, TWC)
Stock Tickers: T, VZ, CMCSA, TWC Last night it was a little surprising to see the FTC saying that there was no need for regulation of net neutrality. The FTC’s Deborah Platt…
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Technology
Broadband Growth Rates Bad For AT&T (T) And Verizon (VZ)?
Point Topic, a UK research firm, tracks global broadband growth by country. For the quarter ending in March, the world had almost 300 million broadband subscribers. One of the salient points of…
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DJIA Components Short Interest Mixed (June 2007)
Stock Tickers: AA, AIG, AXP, BA, C, CAT, DD, DIS, GE, GM, HD, HON, HPQ, IBK, JNJ, JPM, KO, MCD, MMM, MRK, MO, MRK, PFE, PG, T, UTX, VZ, WMT, XOM As…
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Telecom & Wireless
Vonage, Actually Making Another Presentation (VG)
Vonage Holdings Corporation (VG-NYSE) has disclosed that the company’s CFO, John Rego, will be speaking in New York City at the Bear Stearns 2007 Technology/Communications/Internet Conference on Monday, June 11, 2007 at…
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DJIA Components Huge Rise in Short Selling (MAY-07)
We reviewed various short selling trends and noticed that most sectors were mixed to up as the April to May reached record levels. But reviewing the 28 Dow Jones Industrial Average components…
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Media
Cramer Says the Internet Mergers Are Game-Changers
Cramer on today’s STOP TRADING said the Microsoft (MSFT-NASDAQ) deal for aQuantive (AQNT-NASDAQ) is a game changer. If they willpay $6 Billion to buy AQNT, then what is coming in the land…
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Retail
Wal-Mart Skype Offering Indirectly Helps Vonage
Wal-Mart (WMT-NYSE) is increasing it electronic sales, but this morning the press release was specific to Pre-Paid Skype cards now being available in 1,800 Wal-Mart Stores. Shoppers can purchase a $20.00 pre-paid…