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Scott Thompson: Yahoo’s Competitive Advantage Is its Data

Published on January 4, 2012 By Don

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 to Verizon: Get your false ads off the air

Published on December 7, 2011 By Don

Cablevision sues Verizon for bashing the cable company in its Fios commercials, claiming that Verizon was using outdated data.

Alliance Fiber Drops 7% on Trimmed Outlook

Published on November 30, 2011 By Don

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.

Comcast launches business Ethernet in 20 markets

Published on May 16, 2011 By Don

Company expects its last-mile fiber infrastructure to differentiate its offering

Google delays decision on local fiber networks

Published on December 15, 2010 By Don

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.

Verizon Trimmed Investment By $2 Billion In 2010 – Making threats to trim investment rather hollow..

Published on August 24, 2010 By Don

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 [...]

Where?s Nuvont?

Published on June 21, 2010 By Don

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 [...]

Surewest Announces Layoffs – About 60 positions, or 7% of the company’s workforce

Published on May 27, 2010 By Don

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 [...]

Zer01 Loses $43 Million Judgement For Vaporware – Though nobody knows where the company is

Published on May 26, 2010 By Don

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 [...]