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The chief executive of Verizon Wireless said he has no interest in buying Sprint Nextel Corp even as the company stands to lose its top position in the U.S. wireless market because of a merger between AT&T Inc and T-Mobile USA.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed back above 12000, boosted by a major telecommunications deal and a jump in energy stocks as oil prices leapt.

Travel today, from luggage to laptop, is increasingly high-tech. Yet every hotel room hosts a costly anachronism: a traditional telephone.

Barclays Capital said its sales estimates for iPad 2 are likely conservative for Apple Inc.'s March quarter because of early shipment date. The brokerage still expects that competitors will find it tougher to compete with Apple in tablets than in phones given the integration of iTunes and Apple’s expertise in design and battery life.

IAC/InterActiveCorp , a media holding company chaired by billionaire Barry Diller, lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of deceiving a private equity firm into buying a call center operator that quickly went bankrupt.

HTC's Android smartphones are among the best selling devices at all major U.S. carriers, according to checks of Robert W. Baird.

The FCC is investigating the possibility that service blackouts were to blame for unanswered 911 calls.

Another antenna issue could be brewing as Consumer Reports flunked the Verizon iPhone 4.

Telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent is bullish about its prospects in the United States this year, after securing big contracts at major operators like Verizon and Sprint Nextel .

Internet telephone service Skype said Nokia's alliance with Microsoft presented an opportunity for the company to tap into Finnish engineering talent looking for new jobs.

AT&T, which is losing its hold on the iPhone to Verizon, has introduced a new feature to its customers that offers unlimited calling to any mobile number in the United States. AT&T's new offer is an attempt to counter an impending switch of iPhone customers to Verizon, which will be debuting iPhone 4 starting today.

A National Advertising Review Board panel has urged Time Warner Cable to stop making claims in ads that the cable company's services are provided on a fiber or fiber optic network.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: Bristol Myers Squibb, Chesapeake Energy, Sprint Nextel, Valero Energy, Bank of America, Aetna, Verizon Communications, Weyerhaeuser, Nvidia and Corning.

Fifty-four percent of Verizon's Android and BlackBerry users plan to switch to the iPhone when it becomes available on Feb. 10, according to a survey by United Sample Inc.

The two wireless service providers are on opposite ends of the spectrum according to JD Power and Associates recent study.

Strong demand in India and improving conditions in Europe helped Vodafone , the world's largest mobile operator by revenue, to post higher third-quarter service revenues and nudge up its profit forecast for the year.

Vodafone has named outgoing Philips Chief Executive Gerard Kleisterlee as its new chairman, bringing emerging markets know-how and an ability to simplify a group to the world's largest mobile operator.

Robert W. Baird said it have complied a brief recap of the initial fourth quarter big-cap wireless winners and losers. In the Smartphones division, the winners are Apple and HTC on strong results and guidance, while the losers are Nokia and Motorola Mobility.

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Terremark Worldwide, Oplink Communications, TeleNav, Coherent, SAVVIS, Lattice Semiconductor, Internap Network Services, ScanSource, Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, and Equinix.

In its fourth quarter earnings call, AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson expressed doubt about the days ahead without the iPhone exclusivity that boosted subscriber growth.

U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday after disappointing profits and outlooks from blue chips such as 3M and Johnson & Johnson prompted investors to pause in the recent rally.

Stocks fell on Tuesday as disappointing earnings from blue chips such as 3M and Johnson & Johnson prompted investors to pause in the recent rally.

Stocks fell on Tuesday weighed by disappointing blue-chip earnings, including 3M and Johnson & Johnson, ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech.

Verizon's profits increased, revenues decreased and the company fell short of expectations ahead of its iPhone launch in February.

Stocks fell on Tuesday as a slew of corporate earnings failed to persuade investors to add to the previous session's gains.

The companies that reported earnings before the markets open on Tuesday are: Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, 3M Co., EMC Corp., Corning, DuPont, Kimberly-Clark, Sherwin-Williams, Harley-Davidson and W.W. Grainger.

Stock index futures pointed to a modestly lower open on Tuesday as a slew of corporate earnings failed to persuade investors to add to the previous session's gains.

Verizon Communications is going to court to challenge the top U.S. telecommunications regulator, saying the FCC overstepped its authority with the recent adoption of open Internet rules.

Sprint Nextel Corp plans to raise service fees by $10 a month for smartphone customers, bringing its prices closer to those of bigger rivals Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc.