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February 13, 2023

Ars Technica: Starlink, Verizon, and T-Mobile made shaky claims on FCC coverage map

Ars Technica: Starlink, Verizon, and T-Mobile made shaky claims on FCC coverage map. “Multiple Internet service providers have submitted false availability data to the federal government for a map that will be used to determine which parts of the US get access to a $42.45 billion broadband fund. We wrote about Comcast’s false coverage claims last week, and this article will detail false or at least questionable coverage claims from SpaceX’s Starlink division and the wireless home Internet divisions at Verizon and T-Mobile.”

October 19, 2022

Bleeping Computer: Verizon notifies prepaid customers their accounts were breached

Bleeping Computer: Verizon notifies prepaid customers their accounts were breached. “Verizon warned an undisclosed number of prepaid customers that attackers gained access to Verizon accounts and used exposed credit card info in SIM swapping attacks.”

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March 15, 2022

The Verge: Verizon makes Fios free for low-income customers through federal program

The Verge: Verizon makes Fios free for low-income customers through federal program. “Verizon is introducing a new discount to its Fios Forward plans, which should let low-income customers get fiber internet for free when combined with discounts through the federal Affordable Connectivity Program. The free tier, which is normally $40 a month, includes 300Mbps speeds as well as a $10 discount on a Verizon Unlimited Wireless plan.”

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December 9, 2021

Ars Technica: Verizon overrides users’ opt-out preferences in push to collect browsing history

Ars Technica: Verizon overrides users’ opt-out preferences in push to collect browsing history. “Verizon is automatically enrolling customers in a new version of a program that scans mobile users’ browser histories—even when those same users previously opted out of the program when it had a different name.”

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September 4, 2021

CNET: Yahoo has a new owner, again

CNET: Yahoo has a new owner, again. “Apollo Global Management on Wednesday said it had completed its acquisition of Yahoo, formerly part of Verizon Media. The private equity firm in May agreed to acquire Verizon’s media group — which included brands such as Yahoo and AOL, as well as ad tech and media platform businesses — for $5 billion.”

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May 3, 2021

Axios: Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL to private equity firm for $5 billion

Axios: Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL to private equity firm for $5 billion. “Verizon on Monday announced that it will sell its digital media unit, including Yahoo and AOL, to private equity firm Apollo Global Management. Details: Apollo will pay $5 billion for a 90% stake in the business, with Verizon retaining a 10% stake.”

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July 18, 2020

PC Magazine: Google’s AI starts answering Verizon support calls

PC Magazine: Google’s AI starts answering Verizon support calls. “This week, Verizon announced that it has started piloting Google’s Cloud Contact Center Artificial Intelligence in a bid to deliver, ‘a more natural and streamlined digital experience.’ Verizon believes using Google’s tech will lead to shorter call times and more satisfied customers, with the added bonus of the company being able to deal with more customers calling each day.”

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June 28, 2020

CNBC: The Facebook ad boycotts have entered the big leagues. Now what?

CNBC: The Facebook ad boycotts have entered the big leagues. Now what? . “In the last week, a steady stream of companies came out in support of the ”#StopHateForProfit” campaign, promising to pause advertising spend on Facebook to encourage the company to amp up efforts against hate speech and disinformation. With major advertisers like Verizon joining the campaign Thursday and Unilever, Coca-Cola and Honda saying they would pull advertising on Friday, Facebook is now facing a snowball effect of advertisers abandoning the site.”

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April 16, 2020

ZDNet: Verizon introduces open-source, big data coronavirus search engine

ZDNet: Verizon introduces open-source, big data coronavirus search engine. “As we struggle to get a grip on exactly how COVID-19 makes us ill and what we can do about it, researchers have created over 50,000 articles. That’s a lot of information! So, how do you make sense of it all? Verizon Media is doing it by using Vespa. This is an open-source, big data processing program to create a coronavirus academic research search engine: CORD-19 Search.”

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March 23, 2020

BGR: Verizon to give subscribers 15GB of free data during the coronavirus outbreak

BGR: Verizon to give subscribers 15GB of free data during the coronavirus outbreak. “In a press release published a short while ago, Verizon said that its waiving overage charges for residential and small business wireless customers whose economic situation has been adversely impacted by the coronavirus.”

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February 4, 2020

Mashable: FCC confirms wireless carriers broke federal law by selling location data

Mashable: FCC confirms wireless carriers broke federal law by selling location data. “At the center of the investigation are all four major U.S. carriers: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile. It is unclear at this time which groups will be penalized, and what that penalty will look like. Further documentation on the specifics of the violation is forthcoming.”

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January 16, 2020

Motherboard: Verizon Launches ‘Private’ Search Engine After Years of Violating Its Customers’ Privacy

Motherboard: Verizon Launches ‘Private’ Search Engine After Years of Violating Its Customers’ Privacy. “Verizon has spent the better part of the last decade mired in privacy scandals and lobbying the government to ignore or legalize its bad behavior. Now it’s launching a new privacy-centric search engine, apparently hoping you forgot all of that ever happened.” It’s apparently Bing in a privacy wrapper, and I’m as cynical about the offering as this Motherboard article.

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December 10, 2019

NPR: Internet Historians Mourn Loss Of Cultural Record As Yahoo Prepares To Delete Groups

NPR: Internet Historians Mourn Loss Of Cultural Record As Yahoo Prepares To Delete Groups. “Yahoo Groups was once a place where people turned to find out what was happening in their communities. Then Facebook, Tumblr and other sites came along, making Yahoo Groups obsolete. So earlier this fall, Verizon, which now owns Yahoo, announced it will delete the archives of every Yahoo Group. That was supposed to happen this coming Saturday, but Verizon just announced it will extend the deadline until next month. NPR’s Neda Ulaby reports Internet historians and activists are scrambling.” I can’t find any other mentions of the deadline being extended at the moment, but I’ll keep an eye out. And why am I banging on about this? Because it’s going to happen again. And again. And again. And somebody has to care.

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December 9, 2019

Ars Technica: Verizon reportedly blocks archivists from Yahoo Groups days before deletion

Ars Technica: Verizon reportedly blocks archivists from Yahoo Groups days before deletion. “An ad-hoc group scrambling to archive as much content as possible from Yahoo Groups ahead of the site’s final demise next week is running into trouble as more than a hundred volunteer archivists say Yahoo’s parent company, Verizon, has banned their accounts.” This is a big steaming pile of you know.

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August 12, 2019

TechCrunch: Verizon is selling Tumblr to WordPress parent, Automattic

TechCrunch: Verizon is selling Tumblr to WordPress parent, Automattic. “Six years after Yahoo purchased Tumblr for north of $1 billion, its parent corporation is selling the once dominant blogging platform. WordPress owner Automattic Inc. has agreed to take the service off of Verizon’s hands. Terms of the deal are undisclosed, but the number is ‘nominal,’ compared to its original asking price, per an article in The Wall Street Journal.” Axios is reporting that it was less than $20 million. From $1 billion purchase by Yahoo to reportedly less than $20 million. And just to make this as fun as possible, I’ll note that the sale price of Tumblr was apparently less than Marissa Mayer’s severance pay of $23 million.

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Ars Technica: Starlink, Verizon, and T-Mobile made shaky claims on FCC coverage map

Bleeping Computer: Verizon notifies prepaid customers their accounts were breached

The Verge: Verizon makes Fios free for low-income customers through federal program

Ars Technica: Verizon overrides users’ opt-out preferences in push to collect browsing history

Axios: Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL to private equity firm for $5 billion

PC Magazine: Google’s AI starts answering Verizon support calls

ZDNet: Verizon introduces open-source, big data coronavirus search engine

BGR: Verizon to give subscribers 15GB of free data during the coronavirus outbreak

Mashable: FCC confirms wireless carriers broke federal law by selling location data

Motherboard: Verizon Launches ‘Private’ Search Engine After Years of Violating Its Customers’ Privacy

NPR: Internet Historians Mourn Loss Of Cultural Record As Yahoo Prepares To Delete Groups

Ars Technica: Verizon reportedly blocks archivists from Yahoo Groups days before deletion

TechCrunch: Verizon is selling Tumblr to WordPress parent, Automattic

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