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There’s a new cop on the internet privacy beat. In a 3-2 vote Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission passed new rules that for the first time give the agency the authority to police internet service providers, such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, that share customers’ sensitive personal information with third parties, like advertisers. The FCC’s …

Verizon is treading carefully with Yahoo, but still wants to seal the deal. “The deal makes strategic sense,” said Marni Walden, the executive vice president of business innovation for Verizon and the person who pushed for the acquisition. “We won’t jump off of a cliff blindly.” She continues to believe there’s value in the Yahoo name, noting that it won’t …

Sprint took the long way to get there, but the US carrier now has recovered from years of decline, the company’s overlord said Tuesday. Sprint reported stronger financial results Tuesday, most notably the net addition of 347,000 new customers lured by network improvements and the promise of halved phone bills compared with AT&T and Verizon, the mobile goliaths. Sprint was …

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 …

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 the feeds across social media. …

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 …

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 …

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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Verizon Wireless stopped offering an unlimited data plan way back in 2011, but it’s now letting some customers buy a taste of that data freedom. The carrier’s new PopData program, currently available in beta, lets customers use a link in the My Verizon mobile app to purchase unlimited data — either 30 minutes for $2 or 1 hour for $3. …