The Justice Department is appealing the AT&T Time Warner merger approval
The Justice Department is appealing a judge’s ruling approving the merger of AT&T and Time Warner, according to court documents filed Thursday. The Justice Department sued …
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Cox reps stole personal information and created fake accounts, whistleblower claims
By this point, we’re certainly not shocked by allegations that telecoms salespeople lie to customers, add services to accounts without permission, and generally do anything …
Tesla commits to 500,000-car factory in China as tarrifs kick in
Tesla CEO and wannabe cave diver Elon Musk was in Shanghai on Tuesday to secure a deal with Chinese authorities to build an ambitious new …
Exclusive: Apple to deploy 1Password to all 123,000 employees, acquisition talks underway
Apple acquires an average of 15 to 20 companies a year, according to CEO Tim Cook. Of that number, we only hear about a couple, …
Twitter swung the ban hammer 70 million times in the last two months
Twitter and bots are like flies and horse manure, and anyone who has spent more than one month on President Trump’s favorite social media platform …
T-Mobile Sprint merger could be a threat to national security, lawmakers say
There’s plenty of reasons why you wouldn’t want T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint to go through with zero restrictions, but if concerns about reduced competition, higher …
Why did cord-cutting just get more expensive?
People are ditching cable and signing up for live-streaming services at an unprecedented rate right now. It’s a mixed bag for the industry: Although the …
Amazon could start selling cheap drugs ‘right away,’ experts think
Hot on the heels of #disrupting the grocery world by purchasing Whole Foods, Amazon is dipping its toes into the US healthcare market with a …
The US ban on ZTE has been temporarily lifted
It’s been a rollercoaster few weeks for ZTE, one of China’s biggest telecommunications firms. First, the company was slapped with a seven-year ban for its …
Top government lawyer blames judge, CNN, and AT&T’s army of lawyers for court loss
The Department of Justice was handed a rare defeat in court when it tried to contest the AT&T Time Warner merger. The judge approved the …
Class-action lawsuit accuses Comcast of failing to prevent fraud
Comcast has grown its wireless reseller Xfinity Mobile at speed by leveraging its existing cable and internet customer base, but a class-action lawsuit spotted by DSL …
DirecTV Now gets a price hike so AT&T can stop losing so much money
DirecTV Now, AT&T’s cable-replacement streaming service, has been adding users like no tomorrow. Since launching in November 2016, it’s added over 1.5 million subscribers, making …
Dodge brings slew of upgrades car buyers will love to 2019 Charger Hellcat
Dodge has unveiled details of a refresh along with some upgrades for its sleek-looking 2019 Charger Hellcat, most of which are under the hood. The …
Watch former Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure trash his own company for 5 sad minutes
Yesterday, T-Mobile CEO John Legere and now-former Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure went before the Senate subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights to make a …
Pentagon furor may have distracted Google in bid to buy GitHub
Google’s Cloud CEO conceded at a Fortune Magazine event in San Francisco Wednesday something many people suspected — that the Mountain View-based computing giant got …
Tesla just made the Model 3 cheaper, despite burning record amounts of cash
Tesla is currently in one of those make-or-break years, a time that will be represented in the eventual Musk biopic by tense music overtop of …
Report: Increased hidden fees are making AT&T $800 million in new profit
The gratuitous imposition of “administration fees” that have no resemblance to reality is one of the many things that make Americans hate their internet companies, …
Now you can block TV spoilers and annoying political rants on Facebook
There are plenty of reasons members of the general public have begun to sour on Facebook. It’s not cool. Instagram is simpler. Privacy issues. That …
Google’s creepily human-like Duplex AI is coming to the real world
Google is getting closer to introducing its new Duplex AI into the real world, Duplex being the assistive AI that Google built to talk like …
Boost Mobile founder explains exactly why the T-Mobile-Sprint merger rationale is full of crap
Earlier this year, T-Mobile and Sprint finally ended years of awkward flirting and made their union official. If regulators sign off, the US’s two smallest …
Instagram’s new Explore tab is a wonderful reminder that these sections are basically dumpster fires
Instagram is breathing new life into a section of its app that too often is a chaotic mess of content in other social media apps’ …
Uber wins court battle to keep operating in London
Uber has overcome a ban on operating in London, its biggest and most lucrative European market. The firm lost its license to operate in the …
Facebook isn’t going anywhere thanks to its lucky bet on Instagram
New data compiled by Bloomberg Intelligence that pegs the valuation of the photo-sharing app Instagram at more than $100 billion represents more than an eye-popping …
AT&T wireless employees used shady tactics to drive streaming TV subscription sales
Thanks to AT&T’s successful merger with Time Warner, your favorite wireless company certainly isn’t just a wireless company any more. AT&T has fingers in more …
MoviePass is losing money faster than ever
MoviePass, the subscription service that lets you watch unlimited movies in theaters for less than a Netflix subscription, lost $40 million in the month of …
A Supreme Court decision is about to make your online orders more expensive
The Supreme Court just voted to close a loophole that has seen American consumers dodge billions in sales tax on online orders since 1992. The …
Tesla sues former employee for hacking production lines, stealing data, and lying to the press
Late last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk fired off an email to employees saying that the company had a saboteur in its ranks. The email …
Here’s why it’ll be tough for YouTube Music to catch up with Spotify and Apple
Many of us happily play the field when it comes to streaming our favorite movie and TV shows, with multiple subscriptions to services like Netflix, …
T-Mobile might offer a cheap TV streaming bundle real soon, but it all depends on the merger
Late last year, T-Mobile announced that it had acquired TV company Layer3, a slightly oddball TV distributor that offers an expensive cable-esque TV bundle in …
For once, T-Mobile is trying to claim that its network sucks
Normally, when we hear anything from any of the big four carriers about its network, it’s about how it’s the best in the country and …
