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Top U.S. wireless carriers, including AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), T-Mobile US Inc. (NASDAQ:TMUS), and DISH Network Corp. (NASDAQ:DISH), have rolled out a series of promotions aimed at attracting new subscribers following Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) ...

Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) is looking to avoid the same mistakes YouTube made by placing advertisements over questionable content; the social media platform wants to give customers more control over ad placement. Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s YouTube came under fire earlier in the...

Cling to legacy media at your own peril. Barclays analyst Kannan Venkateshwar said 31 million homes in the United States could cut the cord on pay television or drastically scale back on such services as more consumers opt for Internet-delivered entertainment. In a note on Monday, he predicted...

Hillary Clinton will gain control of the White House and the Republican party will maintain control of the House, at least according to Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH). Dish announced the results of its "Viewers to Voters," which is a predictive model that analyzes the potential...

Kerrisdale Capital attacked DISH Network Corp (NASDAQ: DISH) in a short thesis report earlier this month. On Friday, Kerrisdale followed up with a second report. This time, the investment firm attacked the company on alleged violation of tax laws. The investment firm also sent a Form 3949-A...

Re/code recently reported that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) might be planning to launch its own web TV service as early as September this year. Not only that, the company might also offer consumers programming from local TV stations on its service. Dawn Chmielewski, Re/code senior editor, was on...

U.S. stocks were slightly higher as the Dow and S&P 500 indices continue hitting new all-time highs following positive comments from the Fed's Chief Janet Yellen earlier this week. The Dow continues to flirt with the 17,000 mark and hit a historical intra-day high of 16,978.0 Friday...

U.S. stocks declined following troubling words from a Federal Reserve official. In a speech delivered Tuesday, the Fed's Charles Plosser hinted that the Federal Reserve should reduce the pace of its asset purchases in measured steps but an increase in interest rates “may come sooner than many...

As if Federal regulators didn’t have enough to mull over with Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA) proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC), now comes word that AT&T (NYSE: T) is close to “sealing the deal” on a takeover of DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV). The AT&T/DirecTV merger would...

AT&T (NYSE: T) was in the process of considering a move to acquire satellite provider DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV), according to sources who spoke with the Wall Street Journal Thursday. The deal would likely be worth $40 billion, DirecTV’s current market capitalization. The combination of AT&T...

AT&T (NYSE: T) said it would join forces with the Chernin Group in a $500 million joint venture to create and launch a Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX)-style video streaming service. According to Gigaom this marked the first potential launch of an OTT TV service by a large U.S. ISP. AT&T is the...

In announcing it would hear American Broadcasting Companies v. Aereo beginning Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court could decide the fate of broadcast television and potentially upend a business model that has been in place for a very long time. To put it simply, Aereo, a company that lets...

According to the Los Angeles Times, speculation about a merger between satellite broadcast companies Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) and DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV) pops up about once every six months or so. Based on these rumors, the Times said, Dish and DirecTV stocks get a boost...then time passes,...

The ways in which people watch television content have already started to evolve. Thanks to a new agreement between Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) and satellite provider Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) that evolution could speed up. Last week Dish signed a contract for Internet streaming rights for ESPN,...

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...