Get ready to see “Game of Thrones” dominate your Facebook and Twitter feeds even more. AT&T’s potential megadeal with Time Warner means tapping into the television giant’s massive content library of hits for social media. That library includes “Game of Thrones,” CNN and professional sports like the MLB and NBA — all which already dominate …
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Count Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam among the fans of AT&T’s planned acquisition of Time Warner. “It makes very good sense for AT&T,” McAdam told the Intel Capital Global Summit, of AT&T’s offer for Time Warner is $85.4 billion. Big deals, McAdam told CNET, shake up the status quo and force companies to re-evaluate their positions. That doesn’t mean, however, that …
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AT&T may have overshadowed T-Mobile’s earnings announcement, but the Un-carrier had the last laugh. T-Mobile was forced to reschedule its third-quarter earnings conference call on Monday after AT&T abruptly scheduled its own call to discuss its earnings results, which it released Saturday right after announcing an $85.4 billion deal to acquire Time Warner. But while AT&T promised a revolution in …
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Maybe AT&T can offer a free HBO Now subscription to every wireless customer. That might help reverse the company’s flagging growth in its core wireless phone business, as illustrated in its third-quarter results (PDF). They were released shortly after AT&T confirmed it would purchase media company Time Warner for $85.4 billion. Perhaps Time Warner will put a spring in AT&T’s …
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Into a barrage of damaging headlines comes a rare bright spot for Samsung, whose fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 has been nothing short of disastrous. A J.D. Power study published Thursday found that Samsung phones rank highest in overall satisfaction among AT&T and Sprint customers. T-Mobile and Verizon customers liked Apple iPhones best. Drawing on that study and a companion study, …
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Is Yahoo the shot in the arm that Verizon needs? That’s a debatable sentiment. In the past few weeks, Yahoo — which Verizon is planning to acquire for $4.8 billion — drew the kind of headlines that make you cringe. It suffered what could be the biggest hack of all time, coughing up the account information of at least 500 …
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If you thought you were going to stroll into a Verizon Wireless store on Thursday and pick up a 128GB Pixel XL when it goes on sale, think again. Verizon, the exclusive wireless carrier for the Google Pixel and Pixel XL in the US, tweeted Wednesday that the biggest storage version of the larger phone is “sold out” but that …
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Yahoo is in the midst of a major controversy over alleged email surveillance, and now it’s looking to set the record straight. The internet giant on Wednesday sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, asking the NSA to shed more light on an alleged court order it sent the company. The crux of the issue is a …
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It might be hard to remember, but Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is still running a business. Over the past few weeks, the internet pioneer has been in the headlines for just about anything except its products. Instead, Mayer and her team have drawn scrutiny after suffering what could be the biggest hack and theft of personal account info in history, …
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Usually, after Yahoo announces its quarterly earnings, CEO Marissa Mayer and financial chief Ken Goldman sit behind a desk on a fancy news set and discuss the quarter during a live stream. But not this time. The internet giant, which has been embroiled in recent controversies as it heads toward a planned $4.83 billion acquisition by Verizon, said on Friday …
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