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During an interview with The Atlantic, last week, PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) CEO Indra Nooyi told a crowd at the Aspen Ideas Festival that women “can't have it all,” meaning that you can't always succeed at both your home life and work life. “We pretend we can have it all,...

U.S. stocks finished the week slightly lower as investors gave today's poor housing data a slack, and blame it on the weather. “Investors are willing to cut the market some slack because of the weather; I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the economy heats up as the weather warms up,” Jack...

Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ), which won a victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals last week in a case about whether the FCC had the authority to enforce net neutrality, is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results Tuesday, January 21, before the opening bell. Investors...

Investors are always looking for the “next big thing.” Business Insider, in a recent report, suggested the mobile health apps industry might be worth considering. Statistics support that notion with BI pointing out skyrocketing health care costs and the fact that health-related spending in the...

It all started with T-Mobile US' (NYSE: TMUS) JUMP plan which allowed consumers to upgrade their smartphones sooner than the industry standard of every two years. It didn’t take long before AT&T (NYSE: T) fell in line with its Next program, followed by Verizon Communication (NYSE: VZ) and...

Vodafone Group (NASDAQ: VOD) would seriously consider any offer for its 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless, according to Vodafone CEO, Gerard Kleisterlee, and reported by Reuters Tuesday. The most likely offer would come from Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) which owns the other 55 percent...

For $10 a month, the country’s #4 cellphone service provider, T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS), said subscribers could trade in their old, working phone up to four times in a 24-month period, according to Bloomberg. Under the banner of a new program called “Jump,” T-Mobile is putting the squeeze on...

The votes are in and counted and the winner is - Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S). Bloomberg reported Monday that investors holding or representing 82 percent of eligible Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWR) shares voted to accept Sprint’s offer. The deal gives Sprint valuable Clearwire spectrum that would...

The results are in. Verizon Wireless, jointly owned by Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone Group plc (NASDAQ: VOD), may be the country’s biggest mobile-phone carrier with 93 million subscribers, but it is not the fastest. That honor now goes to number two, AT&T (NYSE: T) with 71...

This weekend in Barron's online: fund managers who are earning their keep, and the prospects for Icahn Enterprises, United Technologies and Occidental Petroleum and others. Cover Story "Earning Their Keep" by Sarah Max. These days, it is more difficult than ever to run a truly actively...

Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ), shares of which have dropped about six percent in the past week and a half as the Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) buyout played out, is scheduled to report its third-quarter 2012 results Thursday, October 18, before the opening bell. Investors will be looking to see,...

Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) has been hit with a $1.25 million fine after preventing users from turning their phones into mobile Wi-Fi hotspots. The cellular carrier got into trouble after asking Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to remove select apps from Google Play, which was known as the Android Market at...