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...Rubenstein learned in December that Verizon was poised to hand over details of every call and text message sent to or from his iPhone over a 12-month period....
...US private equity group Apollo Global Management has agreed to acquire Yahoo and the other media assets of Verizon Communications for $5bn, as the telecoms group shifts its focus to its core network businesses...
...Apax has previously bought stakes in Danish communications group TDC and Orange Switzerland while Warburg Pincus has previously invested in German fibre group Inexio and Dutch cable company Ziggo....
...The New York-based investment firm agreed earlier this week to pay communications giant Verizon $5bn for Yahoo, along with AOL and a collection of other digital media properties it had amassed....
...A wave of cash flooding bank balance sheets has prompted some US lenders to advise corporate clients to move money out of deposits, and Apollo has bought Verizon’s media assets including Yahoo for $5bn....
...Verizon had a 75 per cent increase in gaming traffic in just one week in mid-March. No wonder network latency, or the time it takes for data to travel, is a major issue....
...The new communication services sector will include AT&T, Verizon and CenturyLink; consumer discretionary names like Comcast, 21st Century Fox, Netflix and Walt Disney and tech giants, like Alphabet and Facebook...
...The communications sector will encompass companies “that facilitate communications and offer related content and information through various mediums”, the announcement said....
...Verizon’s interest in Fox comes as rival telecoms group AT&T’s agreed deal to buy Time Warner has run into regulatory difficulty....
...The growing popularity of online video services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon are weighing on traditional pay-TV operators, leading to declines at companies such as AT&T and Verizon....
...Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and Charter have all reported subscriber losses in the third quarter. Altice USA shed a net 33,000 pay-TV subscribers, but that was fewer than the 40,000 it lost a year ago....
...There are immediate winners (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile) as well as losers (such as Netflix, which streams the most bandwidth intensive internet traffic, which will very likely go up in cost, as well...
...Telecoms led the benchmark index surging more than 4 per cent after Verizon Communications posted upbeat fourth quarter results....
...Following its acquisition of Yahoo, Verizon may upset the duopoly that has formed in digital advertising. It may just as easily be Amazon, which also has its eyes on the market....
...and Verizon....
...It now has more than 60m subscribers, compared to 140m for Verizon and 130m for AT&T....
...The May non-farm payrolls report showed the US economy added 38,000 jobs in May, well short of forecasts for 160,000, and even after taking into account the effect of a labour strike at Verizon, the telecommunications...
...The Silicon Valley-based company — which is in talks with buyers including telecommunications group Verizon — has created a new portfolio of patents called Excalibur LLC....
...However, several Wall Street economists cautioned that a strike by Verizon Communications workers may have muddied the numbers....
...Verizon is putting together an online video package for mobile devices....
...The company has convinced the biggest US carriers, Verizon and AT&T, to carry its latest devices — the almost square Passport and the more conventional Classic — but early indications suggest they are not...
...$12m since its founding in 2009 from investors including AMC Networks, Bertelsmann, SoftBank Ventures and YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, and has attracted advertising from big brands including Toyota, Verizon...
...Regulators have been warmer to the broadband argument, hoping that competitive pressure may also encourage AT&T and Verizon to upgrade their wireless services in rural areas....
...Communications and AT&T....
...The Verizon Wireless sale will complete in early 2014, with £54bn set aside to be returned to investors....
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