Windstream News

About 75 CWA activists demonstrated at the Windstream annual meeting in Little Rock, Ark., then joined an Occupy Little Rock action to protest the city government's plan to displace communities of senior citizens to build a Technology Park.

Windstream is rolling out the red carpet for one lucky movie buff. To celebrate the launch of Merge, its new high-speed Internet and streaming entertainment service, Windstream will launch an entertainment sweepstakes and embark on a 29-city tour this summer.

Occupy Little Rock, which had said yesterday it would sue today to block its eviction from its six-month protest site at 4th and Ferry, has put off action for 24 hours and delayed a news conference that had been scheduled for 5 p.m. today.

McDermott International reports feeling "comfortable" that FY revenue will come in in the mid-$3B range .

Sean Baillie, Windstream's senior vice president of national accounts and fiber services, will be speaking as part of a roundtable discussion at the International Telecoms Week Conference, taking place in Chicago from May 13-16, 2012.

In Tune with the Homeless is a daylong event with live music, local food vendors, free medical testing and educational outreach.

Windstream today reported that its first-quarter 2012 total revenues and sales were $1.55 billion, down 0.5 percent year-over-year, due to a decline in both consumer and wholesale service revenues.

Along with all the boosters campaigning for their candidates outside the Pulaski County Regional Building at 501 W. Markham, the "We Shall Not Be Moved" group and members of Occupy Little Rock are holding signs in front of City Hall protesting the Little Rock Technology Park Authority's decision to level a residential area for the park.

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel and a state lawmaker who says a redistricting panel improperly lowered the number of black voters in his district are expected to testify in federal court.

Windstream Corp. is a leading provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to businesses nationwide.

Pocahontas authorities say an inmate who walked away from work detail in Lawrence County last week is in custody in Missouri.

Little Rock-based Windstream Corp. is preparing to hold its annual meeting at a time the company is focusing its growth on cloud computing and other business services.

Gartner recently released its Magic Quadrant for Telecom Expense Management , in which PINNACLE , a Windstream company that offers IT service lifecycle management software, was positioned in the "Challengers" quadrant.