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Verizon Stakes a Claim on YouTube Traffic With Partial Purchase of AwesomenessTV
2016-04-06 19:53:34| IT Services - Topix.net
Verizon Communications Inc. said it agreed to buy a 24.5 percent stake in AwesomenessTV, whose YouTube channels are among the most popular on the video site, for about $160 million. AwesomenessTV, which has more than 3.6 million subscribers on YouTube, offers videos on everything from beauty tips to life advice aimed at pre-teens and young adults.
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Frontier Stakes Its Claim on Landlines
2015-02-09 06:13:37| Telecom - Topix.net
As the telecom industry marches forward, Frontier Communications Corp. is growing quickly by snapping up the unloved telephone lines its bigger competitors are leaving behind. Its latest deal is to pay $10.54 billion for millions of Verizon Communications Inc.'s landline customers in Florida, California and Texas-a big one for a company with a market capitalization of just under $8 billion.
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Minecraft Stakes Next-Gen Claim
2014-05-23 15:24:52| TechNewsWorld
Mojang on Thursday announced that its popular game Minecraft soon will be available to users of the Xbox One, Playstation 4 and Playstation Vita consoles. "Apologies for the delay, but putting Minecraft on new consoles is a serious business," explained Owen Hill, Mojang's chief word officer. All three editions are due to arrive in August.
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Sotheby's stakes claim in Ottawa's real estate market
2013-06-20 07:32:43| Real Estate - Topix.net
Eyebrows rose when a blue and white For Sale sign appeared in front of houses in Hintonburg and Greely, not at the properties but the seller: luxury real estate brokerage Sotheby's International Realty Canada has landed in Ottawa.
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On the road, propane stakes claim as cheap, clean fuel
2013-03-07 02:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Home satellite TV provider DISH Network Corp has signed a deal to run 200 of its trucks on propane, in the latest indication that the niche fuel could soon rival natural gas as the United States' cheap transport alternative. Once considered a low value by-product of oil refining and natural gas processing, used primarily in home heating and in industry, propane is now being used as a fuel in some new school buses and trucks around the country. That is happening as businesses like DISH look for...