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In a blog post Thursday, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings said content companies like Netflix should be given adequate network connections free of charge. Hasting’s blog post stems from the deal Netflix inked with Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) this past February in which Netflix agreed to pay...

Over-the-top online, web-based television is on. At least it is at Verizon (NYSE: VZ) after CEO, Lowell McAdam said Tuesday at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference that the company was in talks with major content providers to provide an online TV service. Without...

U.S. stocks rose after Federal Reserve boss Janet Yellen appeared in the hot-seat today speaking to the Committee on Financial Services and U.S. House of Representatives. Yellen said that it is too soon to determine the extent of which cold weather played a role in a recent batch of poor economic...

Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) CEO Charlie Ergen’s ship is about to come in. Actually, his H Block spectrum is about to come in, according to the New York Post. But what's he going to do with it?  Post sources indicated that the $1.56 billion acquisition would be announced this week. When...

U.S. stocks rose as investors as the S&P 500 traded at new historical highs and clearing its 2014 losses. Investors shrugged off disappointing earning reports and economic data and chose to focus on several prominent merger and acquisition activities. The S&P 500 hit a new intra-day...

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...

This week Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) announced its plan to acquire Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) in what could be the largest merger of the year. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is rumored to have beefed up its iWatch development team even though the device itself has yet to be confirmed. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is obsessed with speed. So said Google chief financial officer, Patrick Pichette, during the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference as reported by USA Today. Part of that “speed obsession” is currently being manifested in somewhat feverish attempts to develop and...

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) insists that it “treats all traffic equally,” but new data may suggest that may not be the case when it comes to streaming videos on Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX). On Monday, Netflix released its monthly ISP speed index. The results clearly show what The Register described as “...

In business, one way to eliminate competition is to buy it out. SoftBank founder, Masayoshi Son and Sprint (NYSE: S) CEO, Dan Hesse, are in the midst of making just such a decision with regards to T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS), according to Bloomberg. Of course, Son and Hesse would strongly argue...

Major indices were higher yesterday but the general tone was cautious. Expect investors to become more cautious as we approach jobs Friday but so far, this has been a week of volatility. Notable today, Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) will file its first earnings report since becoming a publically traded...

When competing companies go after each other, it’s normally the customer who wins in the end. That’s exactly what’s playing out as T-Mobile (NYSE: TMUS) continues its plan to disrupt the space. AT&T (NYSE: T) announced on February 1 that it was dropping prices for customers who sign up for...

This may have been a shorter work week for some, but that didn't stop the tech industry from pumping out some notable headlines. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) took the lead this week, but not for the most positive reason. Gmail, its hugely popular e-mail service, went down for the first time in 2014. The...

In a report published Wednesday, FierceWireless confirmed that Sprint (NYSE: S) will not bring back the Nextel brand for enterprise following contrary rumors. FierceWireless interviewed Matt Carter, President of Sprint Enterprise Solutions, who commented that he did not hear anything about the...

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) hopes to pull off what Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) could not – streaming live and delayed television, along with DVR, all in one service. Verizon bought out Intel’s internal Media team and its On Cue pay-tv service, which it said it initially planned to integrate with its in-house...