Is Yahoo a technology company or a media company? Newly appointed CEO Scott Thompson tried to answer that age-old question in his first conference call with Wall Street analysts this morning.
Cablevision sues Verizon for bashing the cable company in its Fios commercials, claiming that Verizon was using outdated data.
Shares of Alliance Fiber Optic Products Inc. dropped 7% Wednesday after the company reduced its fourth-quarter revenue estimate to less than $11 million, compared with its earlier forecast of about $11.8 million.
Company expects its last-mile fiber infrastructure to differentiate its offering
Around 1,100 U.S. towns and cities applied for Google’s high-speed fiber networking project, and the company needs more time to sort things out.
Though it doesn’t get talked about much, we’ve explored in the past how AT&T and Verizon have slowed (in Verizon’s case all-but stopped) next-generation broadband deployment. Dave Burstein digs through the numbers to note that Verizon cut wireline capital spending by about two billion so far this year, and has cut back investment by about [...]
I used to have a contact at Nuvont, but he went unresponsive about a year ago leading me to think that maybe he’s no longer with the company. I figured the company went through some downsizing after the sale of their customers on iProvo, but this link that popped up in my Google Alerts doesn’t [...]
A tipster writes in to note that “I heard through the grapevine that Surewest in CA is laying off 7 % of their staff.” An announcement to the company’s website would certainly appear to confirm that news, the company announcing that they’re launching a “restructuring initiative” aimed at reducing the company’s workforce by approximately 60 [...]
Last summer we skeptically directed your attention to a carrier by the name of Zero1, which was promising users unlimited voice and data on smart phones for $69.95/month, without a contract. The service claimed to use a VoIP application to route all calls. According to the founders, the service tunneled over GSM networks, though Zero1 [...]