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When word got out in early May that AT&T was considering a buyout of DirecTV, the satellite company's stock was trading at around $75 to $78 a share. Shares closed on Friday at $86.18.
In all the years we have covered the Buffett holdings each and every quarter, we have finally seen Team Buffett make a serious acquisition of a telecom stock: Verizon Communications.
Wikimedia Commons (Loic Le Meu)Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has offered its Glass product for $1,500. The supply sold out quickly. Even at that retail price, the futurist “wearable” product has...
courtesy of Verizon WirelessOn the face of it, AT&T  Inc.’s (NYSE: T) has a better dividend than Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ). AT&T’s payout is 5.2% at $1.84. Verizon’s is...
T-Mobile reported a bigger-than-expected net loss for the first-quarter 2014 before markets opened Thursday. It also said it added a record number of new subscribers in the period.
Maybe Sprint will buy T-Mobile , just like Comcast may buy Time Warner Cable. If either deal gets through the gauntlet of government regulation, it will be because certain assets have been sold.
So let's get this straight: Sprint posts a net loss of $151 million and the shares surge because the company did not lose as much as analysts expected? And what about those fleeing subscribers?
Many analysts believe that Apple and Samsung are the only profitable smartphone operations. Samsung continues to best Apple in global smartphone sales, and the trend for Apple worsens by the quarter.
ThinkstockA lot of pixels have been burned since last Thursday’s release of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Tom Wheeler’s defense of his draft for proposed rules for...
Verizon Communications reported first-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Thursday morning, but it did not offer any revenue or earnings guidance. Shares were up in the premarket.
AT&T did manage to show growth in its first-quarter 2014 earnings, but investors should not at all be surprised about the "sell the news" reaction that has been seen.
Wikimedia CommonsAT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) managed to show something new in its earnings: growth. The telecom giant was a dog for quite some time, but value investors had been snapping up shares after...
Network and wireless provider AT&T announced on Monday that it would explore adding 21 cities to the four it is already considering for installation of its super-fast fiber network.
This week will mark the floodgates opening as far as the number of key companies reporting earnings. AT&T reports Tuesday morning and Verizon Communications reports on Thursday morning.
Volvo has tapped AT&T to provide wireless connectivity to its 2015 models in the United States and Canada. AT&T already has similar deals with General Motors, Audi and Tesla.