AT&T’s Leap Puts Spanner in the Works for Dish and T-Mobile
AT&T Inc.’s (NYSE:T) $1.2 billion offer to purchase Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ:LEAP) on Friday may force Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ:DISH) and T-Mobile U.S. Inc. (NYSE:TMUS) to join...
View ArticleIs Netflix Slowly Killing Pay-TV?
Traditional pay-TV providers have been biting their fingernails over Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and other online TV streaming services spurring a movement of “cord cutters,” or people who chose to ditch...
View ArticleWill Time Warner Cable’s Stock See Rising Prices?
With shares of Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC) trading around $116, is TWC an OUTPERFORM, WAIT AND SEE, or STAY AWAY? Let’s analyze the stock with the relevant sections of our CHEAT SHEET investing...
View Article3 Media Stocks in Focus: Netflix Faces Rising Costs, CBS Extends Time Warner...
Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX): Analyst Youssef Squali from Cantor has cut the firm’s rating on Netflix to Hold, reflecting growing concern about rising content and international expansion costs. However, the...
View Article3 Tech Stock Stories Making Waves During a Busy Earnings Week
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ): Closing price $50.36 At a Tuesday press conference in New York, Verizon unveiled its new line of Motorola (NASDAQ:GOOG) Droid phones. The new products include the...
View Article3 Media Stocks in Focus: Comcast Posts a Dividend, AOL Pushes for Electronic...
Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ:CMCSA): Comcast has declared a $0.195 per share quarterly dividend, in line with its previous dividends. It has a forward yield of 1.74 percent, for shareholders of record on...
View ArticleTime Warner Customers Won’t Lose CBS Quite Yet
After CBS Corp. (NYSE:CBS) threatened to pull programming from Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC), the two companies have come to a short-term contract extension so that Time Warner customers won’t lose...
View ArticleHow Does Chromecast Compare on the Streaming Devices Market?
Tech companies are clamoring to get in on the home entertainment business, with Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) all creating set-top boxes that allow content to be...
View ArticleSprint Earnings: Nextel Closing Costed Company Big Bucks
Sprint Corp. (NYSE:S) posted earnings this morning that showed the company suffered in the quarter from costs and the customers lost through shutting down the Nextel platform, but Sprint’s wireless...
View ArticleCBS and Time Warner Extend Negotiations, Again
CBS Corp. (NYSE:CBS) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC) have extended their negotiations yet again after a small blackout of CBS’s programming for Time Warner customers in New York, Dallas, Los Angeles,...
View ArticleIs Sprint Stock Undervalued?
With shares of Sprint (NYSE:S) trading around $5, is S an OUTPERFORM, WAIT AND SEE, or STAY AWAY? Let’s analyze the stock with the relevant sections of our CHEAT SHEET investing framework: T = Trends...
View ArticleDish Earnings Highlight Struggle to Stem Subscriber Losses
Pay-TV is now looking at its problems head on. The release of Dish Network’s (NASDAQ:DISH) second-quarter results Tuesday and Time Warner’s (NYSE:TWX) recent blackout of CBS (NYSE:CBS) each...
View Article4 Tech Stock Stories Causing Tuesday Turbulence
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG): Closing price $896.57 On Tuesday, Motorola Mobility told a United States appeals court in San Francisco that a Microsoft Corp. patent that caused an import ban on its phones...
View ArticleCan Dish Network Stock Continue To Rise?
With shares of Dish Network (NASDAQ:DISH) trading around $45, is DISH an OUTPERFORM, WAIT AND SEE or STAY AWAY? Let’s analyze the stock with the relevant sections of our CHEAT SHEET investing...
View Article3 Media Stocks in Focus: Dish Network Gets Sued, FCC Won’t Break Up CBS...
Dish Network (NASDAQ:DISH): Harbinger Capital Partners has sued Charlie Ergen and his company for $4 billion over claims that it perpetrated an allegedly fraudulent scheme to become LightSquared’s...
View ArticleIs Pay-TV’s Demise Happening Sooner Rather than Later?
Traditional cable and satellite providers are being served with a wake-up call after second-quarter reports were recently provided to investors. The danger of cord-cutting is very real, evidently to...
View ArticleFox’s ESPN-Competing Network Is Hung Up on Fees
21st Century Fox (NASDAQ:FOXA) is set to launch its ESPN-competing sports network, Fox Sports 1, by August 17, but it has yet to ink deals with the three biggest pay-TV providers in the U.S., leading...
View ArticleWhat Is Warren Buffett Buying and Selling?
A new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRKA) made several notable moves in the second quarter. Many institutional investment...
View ArticleDell Profit Slides, AMR Bankruptcy Exit Foiled: Morning Buzzers
U.S. stock futures rose this morning on data that new-home construction rose 5.9 percent in July. Another report from the Labor Department showed that workers in the U.S. increased productivity in the...
View ArticleCan Time Warner Cable Continue to See A Rise in Its Stock?
With shares of Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC) trading around $708, is TWC an OUTPERFORM, WAIT AND SEE or STAY AWAY? Let’s analyze the stock with the relevant sections of our CHEAT SHEET investing...
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