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Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) May 25--Trying to explain the infrastructure that makes the Internet succeed or fail in a community is like trying to trace the rainbow-colored wires through a Santa Fe state government data center to a fiber-optic cable that stretches to Albuquerque.

Both PC World and their TechHive news site conducted a study, and on May 22, 2013 both said AT&T Mobility 4G LTE was named the fastest Internet service among the top four wireless carriers, AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. Wireless analyst Jeff Kagan offers congratulations to AT&T and provides comment on this study.

Ted Rogers had always taken pride in his pace of action. In his aptly named autobiography, Relentless , he wrote, "I love speed.

American Tower REIT , provider of cell tower space to telecom companies such as Verizon Communications , AT&T , Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile US , is in the midst of a high growth market segment due to the large adoption of bandwidth hungry smartphones such as Apple's iPhone.

We're giving away tickets to Taylor Swift's sold-out Edmonton show on Tuesday, June 25 - the first of two at Rexall Place.

's stock had its "outperform" rating reiterated by equities research analysts at Oppenheimer in a research note issued to investors on Friday, Analyst Ratings Network.com reports.

What might be nickels and dimes for you will end up as hundreds of millions for a corporate giant.

Online video site Hulu is again up for sale, with Yahoo and pay TV operators DirecTV and Time Warner Cable among the seven bidders, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

News Corp. said its board of directors has approved plans to split its entertainment and publishing businesses into two separate companies.

In today's marketplace, there are tons of metrics investors can use to analyze their holdings.

WASHINGTON, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SnagFilms Inc., the privately-owned media and technology company offering independent films to the world, has been awarded Red Herring's Top 100 North America award, honoring the year's most promising private technology companies in America.

The first real Facebook Inc Phone with Home pre-installed, the HTC First, has officially bombed .

The Cincinnati company said late Thursday that former CEO A.G. Lafley , a 33-year industry veteran, is returning its top post.

A survey of chief executive officer pay commissioned by the Associated Press lists Brian Roberts, head of Philadelphia-based Comcast Corp.

's stock had its "neutral" rating reiterated by Zacks in a note issued to investors on Thursday, Stock Ratings Network.com reports.

Comcast executive VP David Cohen stood up tall for U.S. broadband Thursday, saying Americans "are getting world-class broadband from competing companies, and it's getting better every day." He ascribed to parochial agendas the "running down" of U.S. broadband build-outs by some critics and members of the press who he said use "selective statistics" ... (more)

DirecTV has announced the all-star cast for their upcoming drama "Full Circle" from award-winning screenwriter and playwright Neil LaBute , and its clear the satellite cable provider has hit the mother lode.

Former News Corp president Peter Chernin and private equity fund Guggenheim Digital Media have placed bids for Hulu , two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, triggering a tug-of-war for the online video service.

The 4G LTE market is a competitive landscape, involving the biggest telecom companies in the US.

DirecTV traded down 0.80% on Thursday, hitting $63.46. DirecTV has a 1-year low of $42.87 and a 1-year high of $57.78. The stock's 50-day moving average is currently $54.44. The company has a market cap of $35.446 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.57. DirecTV last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, May 7th.