Integrated Telecommunication Services

Trading Halted: XETA Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: XETA), news pending.

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) today announced that iPhone 4 on the Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) network will be available in select Walmart stores starting Feb. 10, 2011. "We're excited to bring iPhone 4 on the Verizon Wireless network, one the most anticipated mobile phone launches in recent history, to...

Analysts at Goldman downgrade Telefonos de Mexico SA (NYSE: TMX) from “neutral” to “sell.” TMX shares fell 1.74% to close at $16.99 yesterday. More Analyst Ratings here

Accordng to Forbes Magazine, the chairman and CEO of Telefonos de Mexico (TMX) and América Móvil (AMX), Carlos Slim Helu, is the richest man in the world, at least as of March of last year. He has an approximate net worth of 74.5 billion dollars now, more than $15 billion more than last year. Slim...

Shares of TriQuint Semiconductor (NASDAQ: TQNT) gapped down on Tuesday after a teardown of the new Verizon (NYSE: VZ) iPhone showed that the company's chips were not in the device. The TQNT chips were replaced with power amplifiers from Skyworks (NASDAQ: SWKS). Reports indicate, however, that TQNT...

A company's fundamental backdrop, including anticipated news events like earnings, FDA meetings, or product announcements, typically plays a prominent role in any trader's research.  This tends to be true whether one is primarily investing in stocks or in options. The excitement of event-based...

Pepco Energy Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Pepco Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: POM) has been awarded a $6.2 million, 15-year energy savings performance contract by the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA). Pepco Energy is installing energy conservation measures to help reduce the MTA's energy...

Synchronoss Technologies, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: SNCR) reported a strong 4Q at $51.2m/$0.21, “ahead of our $49m/$0.19 and the Street's $48.8m/$0.19,” Deutsche Bank writes. “The EPS beat benefited from higher automation rates and was in spite of a 1c dilution impact from the secondary in 4Q. We believe...

Chris Versace, author of the Thematic Investor, has written a new piece on Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM). In this informative piece, Chris Versace talks about his position on RIMM in light of a new survey, how the market for smartphones and for tablets will affect RIMM and most importantly of...

Sprint (NYSE: S) is to announce a new Kyocera (NYSE: KYO) smartphone to its cellular lineup at an event in New York tonight Bloomberg reports. The device will be called Echo and will run Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android mobile operating platform according to anonymous sources. Sprint and Kyocera...

Piper Jaffray is downgrading shares of Terremark Worldwide (NASDAQ: TMRK) to Neutral with a $19 price target after the company agreed to be acquired by Verizon (NYSE: VZ). In the note to clients, Piper Jaffray writes, "Terremark released its fiscal 3Q11 results after the market close on Friday,...

Below are the top small-cap telecom services-domestic stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of dividend yield. Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc (NASDAQ: ALSK) has a dividend yield of 9.10%. ALSK's shares closed at $9.31 on Friday. Consolidated Communications Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: CNSL)...

Just how popular are Apple products? Verizon Wireless said yesterday that it has stopped taking preorders for the iPhone 4 – just 17 hours after the device went on sale at the carrier. The company said it sold more units of the device in the first 2 hours of availability than any other device...

At 8:10 p.m. EST yesterday, Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) ceased online orders of iPhone 4 to existing customers and ended the most successful first day sales in the history of the company. "This was an exciting day," said Dan Mead, president and chief executive officer for Verizon Wireless. "In just...