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AT&T’s MediaFlo Mobile TV Service To Launch Next Week; Pricing Will Make It DOA - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Apr 2008 11:34 PM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T) Wireless will finally launch its much delayed mobile TV broadcasting service next week, and it has made all the necessary moves to make sure it never really…

Starbucks, AT&T National Rollout Begins; Free WiFi Access Begins - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 25 Apr 2008 08:25 AM PST

Actually, I had an inkling of this before the press release rolled in just now—when the AT&T (NYSE: T) network took over as soon as my computer started looking for…

Starbucks Cedes Management Of Hear Music Label To Partner; Will Focus On Digital; Lombard Out - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 24 Apr 2008 05:22 PM PST

Once again, Starbucks is changing course when it comes to entertainment. The company announced today it is pulling out of direct management of the Hear Music label and instead will…

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BusinessWeek Online Banks On Reader Engagement; Adds Editor To Manage Efforts - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 23 Apr 2008 10:39 PM PST

Most magazines have adopted some form of online community aspect by this point. But John Byrne, BusinessWeek Online editor-in-chief, feels most efforts haven’t really gone beyond the introduction of reader…

Earnings: AT&T Q1 Revs Up 6.1 Percent; 379,000 U-Verse TV Subs; Broadband Up 13.2 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 22 Apr 2008 05:12 AM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T) has announced Q1 revenue of $30.7 billion, up 6.1 percent from $28.9 million in the year-ago period. Net income on an adjusted basis rose 10.3 percent to…

AT&T’s Mobile TV Service Will Launch In May; About Four Months Late - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 27 Mar 2008 03:21 PM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T) said today that it will begin offering Qualcomm’s (NSDQ: QCOM) MediaFLO mobile TV service in May. The company provided the details in an e-mail today, saying more…

Wireless Spectrum Winners Are Revealed; Google Bids But Verizon Wins - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 20 Mar 2008 12:19 PM PST

The FCC finally unveiled the winners of the federal spectrum auction that closed earlier this week and raised a record-breaking $19.6 billion. The FCC said Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) was…

Udated: William Morris Gets The Fund Fever: Starts With AT&T, Accel And Venrock - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 03 Mar 2008 07:08 PM PST

Updated below: As we have been covering for a while now, the talent agencies here have exploring and raising funds to become de facto venture capital firms themselves, mainly to…

Industry Moves: Discovery’s Schembri Tapped To Manage AT&T’s $3.3 Billion Media Budget - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 06 Feb 2008 12:30 PM PST

A little over three years since Discovery Networks hired him to oversee much of its new media planning strategy, Chris Schembri has defected to AT&T (NYSE: T), where he will…

Broadband Content Bits: AppleTV; mtvU; Break Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 30 Jan 2008 09:46 PM PST

-- AppleTV rental software postponed: Apple announced the software upgrade that will allow AppleTV to handle movie rentals, along with built-in music store, access to Flickr photostreams and .Mac Web…

Earnings: YHOO Q407: Revenues Up 8 Percent, Beats Earnings Estimate; Disappoints On Forecast - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 29 Jan 2008 02:29 PM PST

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) reported revenues of $1.8 billion for Q407, up 8 percent compared with $1.7 billion in the same quarter last year. The company earned net income of $206…

Earnings: AT&T: Income Spikes On Merger; Broadband Revs Up 13.7 Percent; 231,000 U-Verse Subs - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 24 Jan 2008 06:18 AM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T) reported Q4 revenue of $30.3 billion, up 91 percent from last year’s $15.89 billion—largely due to the merger of AT&T and SBC. On a pro-forma basis, total…

Time Warner Cable To Trial Tiered Consumption Pricing; Aims To Charge Heavy Users - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 17 Jan 2008 09:55 AM PST

*Time Warner Cable* is starting a trial of consumption-based internet pricing, the company has admitted, following a leak of internal memos (see here). A company spokesman told AP that TWC…

Citi Media: Michael Angelakis, CFO, Comcast; Bad Debt And Churn Climbing - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 09 Jan 2008 08:07 AM PST

At CES, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts rolled out an impressive list of new features and products. Yesterday, AT&T (NYSE: T) CEO Randall Stephenson warned that the impact of the weakening…

Citi Media: Randall Stephenson, CEO, AT&T; Economy Hurting Broadband Business - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 08 Jan 2008 01:33 PM PST

The soft economy is taking its toll on AT&T (NYSE: T). Even since Q3 ended, the company has seen an up tick in non-paid disconnects in both broadband and traditional…

Update: AT&T: U-Verse Available To 30 Million Homes in 2010; EchoStar Buy Unlikely; Strong Ad Growth - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 11 Dec 2007 11:51 AM PST

At a meeting for analysts, AT&T (NYSE: T) said it expects U-Verse to be available in 30 million homes by the end of 2010, compared to 5.5 million as of…

The Players In The 700 MHz Auction - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 05 Dec 2007 06:39 AM PST

It will be a while before the list of official bidders in the 700 MHz spectrum auction in the US are announced, but there are some statements out already. What…

AT&T CEO: Let Verizon Have Their Open Network, We’ve Got The 3G IPhone - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 29 Nov 2007 04:05 PM PST

A 3G version of Apple’s iPhone will come out next year, according to AT&T (NYSE: T) CEO Randall Stephenson, in a wide-ranging interview with Forbes at the Churchill Club dinner…

AT&T Buys Online Pay-Per-Call Provider Ingenio - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 19 Nov 2007 09:42 AM PST

Ingenio, the pay-per-call technology service that was powering the call/search ads for AOL, (NYSE: TWX) Marchex, Miva and others, has been bought out by AT&T. Financial details were not disclosed,…

On Networks Raises $12 Million Second Round for Online Video Network - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 14 Nov 2007 10:05 AM PST

Austin, TX-based On Networks, a distributor original online video, has raised a $12 million second round led by Accel Partners. Also participating in the round were previous investors Austin Ventures…

Anti-Piracy Firm Vobile Raises Sub-$10 Million First Round From AT&T, Disney’s Steamboat - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 13 Nov 2007 08:28 PM PST

Santa Clara-based Vobile, a maker of anti-piracy technology, has received a sub-$10 million investment round from AT&T and Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) Steamboat Ventures, according to the WSJ. The funding was…

10-Q Watch: AT&T Will Spend $500 Million More To Get U-Verse Into 2 Million Fewer Homes In @08 - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 06 Nov 2007 08:48 AM PST

In its 10-Q filed earlier today, AT&T (NYSE: T) admitted its expensive U-Verse video rollout isn’t going quite as planned, upping 2007-08 spending estimates by $500 million and trimming by…

Verizon’s FiOS a Growing Threat to Cable; AT&T Goes to Washington? - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 24 Oct 2007 08:12 AM PST

Once dismissed, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is forcing people to take its TV initiatives seriously. The company announced yesterday that its IPTV service FiOS TV had signed up 500,000 subscribers (release),…

Earnings: AT&T Reports Record Number Of Mobile Subs In Q307, 10,000 New Users/Week For U-verse - 1 Comment
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Tue 23 Oct 2007 06:04 AM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T) today said that Q307 revenues nearly doubled to $30.1 billion, up from $15.6 billion in the same period a year ago (the latter did not include its…

Updated: FCC Grants AT&T Some Relief On Third-Party Broadband Charges - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 11 Oct 2007 10:30 PM PST

The FCC faces a midnight deadline for a decision on AT&T’s petition to lift regulations on charges for third parties renting its broadband infrastructure. Verizon (NYSE: VZ) earned a similar…