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In a filing on Thursday with the FCC, Consumers Union urged the commission to deny the proposed merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable.
courtesy of ComcastOne of the arguments that Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) makes in support of its $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) is that wireless broadband is a...
ThinkstockIt had to happen sometime, but the cable guys probably didn’t expect it to happen so soon. The top U.S. cable companies now claim 49.915 million broadband subscribers compared with 49.910...
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street firms for Monday, July 28, 2014. They include AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Pfizer and Xerox.
courtesy of Alex Proimos, via Wikimedia CommonsWhen it comes to companies we dread dealing with, we all know who they are. Let’s put it this way, would you rather go to the Apple Genius Bar to fix...
A new research report from UBS points out that that U.S wireless competition remained very intense in the second quarter. UBS has cut through the clutter to find the stocks still attractive at these...
BlackBerry Ltd.Each year, 24/7 Wall St. identifies 10 American brands that we predict will disappear before the end of the next year. This year’s list reflects the fact that mergers and...
thinkstockThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has named its investigative teams to review whether or not the massive media mergers that have been announced are actually in the public interest...
The Charlotte Hornets are back again. When the NBA franchise moved to New Orleans in 2002, the Charlotte Bobcats were born. But as of last year, the New Orleans team became the Pelicans, so Charlotte...
ThinkstockWith the stock market reaching new heights daily, companies’ profit margins at multi-decade highs, and falling unemployment, many Americans may be wondering when they will start to see...
ThinkstockOne thing we have related to 24/7 readers over the years is that for all of their pedigreed executives and portfolio managers, hedge funds tend to go a lot in the same direction. Why is...
The battle over net neutrality and the impact of the proposed mergers between may finally have called attention to the sorry state of broadband in general in the United States.
ThinkstockThe remote control in the hand of an average American now has a selection of 189 TV channels available for viewing. That is an increase of almost 50% in the past six years. So what do we do...
In a new report from UBS, not only is the deal DirecTV-AT&T scrutinized, but the case is made that the company that ends up the winner in this gigantic merger may very well be cable behemoth...