Verizon is offering $50 a share for AOL, compared with AOL's closing price of $42.59 on Monday.

ESPN isn't a fan of Verizon's new way of offering cable channels under its Fios TV service. The sports network has sued Verizon for allegedly breaching its contract, which was earlier reported by CNBC.com. The lawsuit was filed in the New York Supreme Court. The dispute stems from Verizon's recently unveiled "skinny bundle" option, which gives consumers the ability to choose specific packages of cable channels which can be swapped in and out every 30 days.

The network is seeking damages related to the plan, which lets Verizon FiOS customers choose a bundle of channels.

Got a data cap on your smartphone? You should be grateful, according to an opinion piece that Verizon Wireless published on Friday. "Let’s face it, if everyone had unlimited data and used it fully, the performance of the networks would suffer because of bandwidth restrictions and the 'shared resource' nature of wireless," industry analyst Jack Gold, founder of J. Gold Associates, wrote in an article titled "The Lure of Unlimited Wireless Data—Is It Necessary?"

In spite of Verizon Wireless' recent boasts that it's "a leader, not a follower," a new announcement from the nation's biggest wireless company shows that Big V is indeed following the competition ...

You'll of course recall that the FCC's original 2010 net neutrality rules didn't do much of anything and exempted wireless networks completely, in large part because they were written by Verizon and Google. As such, companies like AT&T and Comcast actually really liked the rules, because, from their perspective, they effectively "settled the conversation," but in the process didn't even cover the biggest emerging technology in the history of the Internet (wireless), and generally allowed all...

The FCC is facing a lot of opposition this year, but Verizon in particular just really seems to thrive on challenging the agency. The latest move from the telco giant is a message to the FCC that even if they use Title II to regulate net neutrality, there is nothing the commission can do to prevent interconnection fee spats like the one Verizon and Netflix had this year.

It’s called the ““perma-cookie.” As we told you last week, Verizon Wireless has embraced this privacy-busting digital marker, which could give marketers a way to track what you do online whether you want to be tracked or not. Basically, the U.S. wireless carrier is slipping the cookie onto the smartphones that tap the net via its celluar and data network, and most phones owners don’t realize it.

It’s hard being Verizon sometimes. The poor little wireless carrier and Internet service provider often gets a bum rap in the tech press for its controversial actions on net neutrality and on enabling the American government’s surveillance programs. To combat these nattering negative ninnies in the media, Verizon has decided to take action and bankroll its own news site where none of those nasty sorts of stories will ever pop up.

Jun Yuan is at a loss for words after getting a more than $3,200 monthly bill for Internet service. “We didn't know we used a lot, so now I'm asked to pay $3,200,” said the Chinese international student studying at Palomar College.

Verizon Wireless launches "SugarString," your source for happy tech stories.

Verizon Wireless has been subtly altering the web traffic of its wireless customers for the past two years, inserting a string of about 50 letters, numbers, and characters into data flowing between these customers and the websites they visit.

A year and a half after its official launch, Redbox Instant is calling it quits. The shutdown shows how hard it is to compete with Netflix for streaming video subscriptions.

Verizon is finally ready to acknowledge that cable TV just isn't working for a lot of us anymore. The company is planning to launch its Internet-based TV service that can be watched on mobile devices in the "late first half of 2015," Lowell McAdam, Verizon's CEO, said at a Goldman Sachs investor conference in New York on Thursday.

Verizon will pay $7.4 million for what appears to be a minor privacy violation, in which the company failed to notify customers of their right to opt out of Verizon marketing campaigns.

The shift from copper landlines to fiber-based voice networks is continuing apace, and no one wants it to happen faster than Verizon. Internet users nationwide are clamoring for fiber, as well, hoping it can free them from slower DSL service or the dreaded cable companies. But not everyone wants fiber, because, when it comes to voice calls, the newer technology doesn’t have all the benefits of the old copper phone network.

A minor media brouhaha erupted last week when the FCC Chairman sent a letter to Verizon. The letter inquired about the company’s disclosure of its intent to manage traffic for the heaviest users of its unlimited mobile plan for certain cell sites at times of peak congestion beginning in three months. Verizon responded that its actions are compliant with the agency’s definition of reasonable network management and is necessary to ensure a quality experience for all subscribers on its network.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) is packed with judges who own stock in the telecom companies handing over data to the government.

As we learned from a recent study, Verizon has been remarkably efficient at convincing unlimited wireless data plan holders to switch to newer, more profitable data plans. According to market research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, just 22% of Verizon’s mobile subscribers were still on unlimited data plans as of the end of the second quarter.

Netflix submitted an unusually blunt filing to the FCC that blasts Verizon and Comcast, and says the agency should use its “Title II” power to enforce net neutrality.