Verizon prepping $100B bid to buy more of itself

Verizon wants to own all of subsidiary Verizon Wireless' stock. And it's willing to spend $100 billion in cash and stock to make it happen.

Verizon: We’re America’s 4G LTE king

Verizon is the king of fast cellular networks in America, or so it says. And it's hard to argue with the company's numbers.

63% of Verizon’s 9.8M smartphone sales last quarter were iPhones, 4M were iPhone 5s

Those are big numbers, but the even bigger implication is what this means for Apple's iPhone market share in the key U.S. market.

FreedomPop adds free calls & texts to free Internet to ‘basically screw AT&T and Verizon’

FreedomPop, which already offers free wireless Internet service, is announcing a partnership with TextPlus today that will enable it to also offer free voice calls and free texts.

How The Weather Company survived a 1,000% traffic spike during Hurricane Sandy

On Monday, the company was serving 110 gigabytes of data per second, almost without a hiccup, not counting the livestreams -- 170 thousand simultaneous streams of live video, pushed out over the Internet.

Verizon’s huge 4G network just smacked AT&T in the face

Next week, Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE service will take the unprecedented step of landing in its 400th market, showing the company's dominance in next-generation wireless service.

More sad news on why Americans pay so much for crappy Internet and phone service

In his new book The Fine Print, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston tell us, among other things, what's wrong with the Internet in America. The answer is fairly depressing: It's too slow, too expensive, and too controlled by a duopoly of AT&T and Verizon.

Verizon announces $1.83B Q2 profits, rising revenues due to smartphones and FiOS

Verizon Wireless posted encouraging second quarter numbers, bolstered by increased revenue from smartphone sales and the shift from copper to fiber optics’ FiOS for wireline and Internet customers. The No. 1 U.S. mobile carrier announced Thursday a $1.83 billion quarterly …

Goodbye unlimited data: Verizon tiered plans starting July 7

New Verizon customers will no longer have the option of choosing an unlimited data plan for their smart devices. The wireless carrier is rolling out new tiered data plans July 7, reports DroidLife.

Monthly plans for new customers start at …

More rockstars at VB Summit: Twitter’s Michael Abbott, Verizon’s Nicola Palmer

Michael Abbott, VP of Engineering at Twitter, will be joining us for an opening fireside chat on Monday. Michael helps lead Twitter’s mobile efforts, working closely with co-founder Jack Dorsey. As such, he can speak to mobile product development. Yes, he was referenced in that recent article by Fortune about the leadership shuffles and strategy discussions happening at Twitter...