SAN FRANCISCO — Verizon is buying Yahoo for $4.83 billion, marking the end of an era for a company that once defined the internet. It is the second time in as many years that Verizon, extending its digital reach, has ...
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NEW YORK — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders cheered on striking Verizon workers Wednesday after 39,000 landline and cable employees walked off the job. Sanders told workers at a picket line in Brooklyn they displayed courage by standing up to ...
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Read More »Verizon awarded $1.6 million in grants in 2014 in Maryland, the company announced. The grants went to organizations in the areas of domestic violence awareness and prevention, health care and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education. In addition, Verizon ...
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Read More »The U.S. Supreme Court turned away an appeal by a Verizon Communications Inc. unit in a $51 million fight over taxes on a now-obsolete service used to connect to the Internet with a dial-up modem.
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Read More »NEW YORK — Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. said Monday it has transferred $7.5 billion in pension obligations to Prudential Insurance after a retiree association failed to persuade a court to stop the move. Members of the Association of BellTel ...
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Read More »NEW YORK — Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. is offering buyouts to 1,700 workers, mainly call-center employees and technicians, as it continues to shrink its wireline business. The offer applies to less than 1 percent of Verizon’s overall workforce of ...
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Read More »NEW YORK — AT&T Inc. will start selling home automation and security services nationwide, taking on incumbents led by Tyco International Ltd.’s ADT. The installations and services will be sold in AT&T stores, starting with a trial this summer in ...
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Read More »NEW YORK — After a customer backlash, Verizon Wireless on Friday dropped a plan to start charging $2 for every payment subscribers make over the phone or online with their credit or debit cards. In a statement on its website ...
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Read More »SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court has ruled as constitutional a law giving telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the government with its email and telephone eavesdropping program. Thursday’s unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. ...
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Read More »Thousands of Verizon landline workers took to picket lines Monday from Massachusetts to Baltimore to Virginia, fighting management demands for contract givebacks and disputing that their work is unprofitable. Verizon Communication Inc. countered that its 45,000 unionized workers in the ...
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