thinkstockFebruary 20, 2014: Markets opened higher on Thursday although techs got off to a slow start. Inventory data on oil and natural gas sent futures prices for both down slightly on the…
If you have noticed that loading videos from Netflix is taking a ridiculous amount of time, you are not alone. The big telecommunications companies have been slowing Netflix's streaming capacity because Netflix…
Apple sat atop a new list from Brand Finance of the world's most valuable brands. However, rival Samsung's value surged as it gained on and then took the lead over Apple in…
ThinkstockUpdate: Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) announced Thursday morning that it has launched a new, lower-cost plan for its Verizon Wireless customers. The new plan, called MORE Everything, increases customers’ monthly data…
It had to happen. Verizon Communications announced Thursday morning that it has launched a new, lower-cost plan for its Verizon Wireless customers. A price war is well and truly being fought among…
The announced merger between the largest U.S. cable operator, Comcast, and the second largest, Time Warner Cable, will create a media goliath with 33 million cable subscribers. But this is in an…
24/7 Wall St. has decided to track some of the top increases in the short interest of NYSE stocks for the period ended January 31, 2014. They include Caterpillar, MasterCard, J.C. Penney…
This year promises to be at least a very interesting one in the mobile wireless business. It is probably safe to say that by the end of this year, the mobile carrier…
ThinkstockT-Mobile US Inc. (NYSE: TMUS) spent some serious money on Super Bowl ads yesterday, boasting about their no-contract deals and offers of a buyout from a customer’s current mobile wireless carrier. In…
Late last year, a merger of Sprint and T-Mobile US seemed likely. In the wake of comments by William Baer, the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust chief, it looks like there may not…
Wikimedia CommonsThe price war among cellular service providers in the United States has heated up again. Pressured, perhaps, by the incredibly low pricing offered by T-Mobile US Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS), which is…
If Wall Street's measure of a company's promise is its market value, then Facebook's extraordinary earnings have put it solidly onto the list of the 25 most valuable companies in the United…
AT&T is the top stock in the Dogs of the Dow. It is nearly painful to imagine, but the payout ratio is reaching such a level that some are beginning to question…
Shares of Vodafone tumbled in premarket trading Monday after AT&T ended speculation that it would acquire the British telecom. The British telecom has put itself on a path to growth by acquisition.
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Wednesday, January 22, 2014.
