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Verizon Prospects Seen Bullish Despite Competition

Verizon Communications’ $130 billion bet on wireless has been given a big thumbs up on Wall Street, even as U.S. mobile competition intensifies. Of 33 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters, 24 rate Verizon (VZ) stock a buy in the wake of its purchase of Vodafone’s 45% stake in their U.S. joint venture, Verizon Wireless. None rates the stock sell or underperform. Verizon stock, though, faces other pressures and is roughly unchanged since Sept. 2, the

Tablets Ruled Q4, As Wireless Phone Subscribers Fell

Wireless phone companies are dialing up tablet users to boost their user numbers, as mobile phone subscribers are harder to come by. Thanks to aggressive holiday season marketing, the four national U.S. wireless firms — Verizon (VZ), AT&T (T), Sprint (S) and T-Mobile US (TMUS) — added more than 1.7 million tablet users as subscribers in Q4, more than double the 770,000 tablet users they added a year earlier, UBS noted in a report. It’s a trend

Splunk, Tableau Software Form Big Data Partnership

Two of technology’s emerging young guns have formed a partnership to better compete with larger rivals Oracle, SAP and others trying to tackle the growing Big Data market. On Wednesday, Splunk (SPLK) and Tableau Software (DATA), which rank among the tech industry’s fastest-growing companies, will announce a pairing that will launch a one-stop shop featuring both companies’