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Verizon Communications will introduce new high-speed Internet service tiers and pricing next month, in one case doubling its fastest level of service to 300 Megabits per second.

NEW YORK, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Communications today announced a program to provide its small shareowners with a convenient and inexpensive way either to round their Verizon holdings up to 100 shares or to sell all their shares.

Verizon may have made it known that it does not want to bring its Fiber to the Premises -based FiOS outside of towns and cities where it has an existing service agreement in place, but a group of mayors in upstate New York charge the telco is deliberately ignoring their communities.

May 23 - Fitch Ratings has affirmed Verizon Communications Inc.'s Issuer Default Ratings and debt ratings as follows: --Long-term IDR at 'A'; --Senior unsecured debt at 'A'; --Short-term IDR at 'F1'; --Commercial paper at 'F1'. The Rating Outlook is Stable.

Verizon Wireless plans to launch a mobile video streaming application later this month with content from everybody from Comcast Corp to Netflix Inc as the mobile provider looks to increase usage on its mobile network.

Verizon Communications on Tuesday became the first service provider to say it will use Alcatel-Lucent's upcoming 7950 XRS core routing system, which will bring the French-American equipment vendor into the carrier core routing business for the first time in about a decade.

The mayors of Albany, Troy and seven other upstate cities have written to the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission to express their concern that a deal Verizon Wireless has negotiated with many of the country's top cable companies to sell each others' products will harm consumers.

Ray Dalio 's Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest and best-performing hedge fund and a macro firm, added 71 new stocks to its portfolio in the first quarter of 2012.

Looking ahead to growing demand for bandwidth to feed large companies and computing clouds, Verizon Communications announced steps on Friday to increase the speed of the links its enterprise customers can buy and to make its network connections more resilient.

Verizon Communications has had a long history of standing up against publishers seeking to subpoena information about its subscribers and their downloading habits, so it's not a big surprise to see Big Red telling John Wiley's lawyers to stuff it.

Verizon Communications boosted earnings 15.7 percent on a 4.6 percent jump in revenue.

Melville-based Henry Schein ranked 37th in the state and No. 303 nationwide with $8.5 billion in revenues, advancing from 317 a year ago on a 13.3 percent jump in revenues.

Irlando, who joined Verizon Communications in 2005, will be based in Chandler, Ariz.

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FairWinds had previously released a preliminary case study on this work in 2008, but found that, as of 2012, the improvements have had a significantly greater impact on Verizon's business than had been originally projected.

Cablevision Systems Corp.'s first-quarter profit fell 45% following the spinoff last year of its cable-networks division, even as the company added subscribers in all of its core video, broadband and phone businesses.

Here's how much key plaintiffs want to recover for losses they allege were caused by U.S. government mishandling of the May 2010 flood: Nissan North America , $13 million Gibson Guitar , $11.9 million Carters Inc.