Big Brother has joined the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints at this year’s Super Bowl. A team from US Fleet Tracking, a privately held Oklahoma City-based company, is once again taking a page from George Orwell’s “1984” epic and monitoring every vehicle used by the teams and NFL personnel in the Miami metro area for Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday. This is the fourth consecutive year the National Football League has hired US Fleet to track its
Is AOL on the comeback trail? Shares of the beleaguered but still-popular Web portal rose 2% on Wednesday as stronger advertising sales helped offset further declines in its legacy dial-up Internet service. AOL (AOL) also rolled out its revival strategy, which includes launching new content and ad services and axing most of its offshore operations. AOL, which spun off from its former parent Time Warner (TWX) in December, swung to a profit of 71
Comcast on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter results that beat views, but the U.S. cable TV leader lost 200,000 video customers in the period. Excluding a one-time tax gain, Comcast (CMCSA) said it earned 29 cents a share compared with 14 cents a year ago and topping analyst forecasts by 2 cents. Lower capital spending and lower interest expense on debt boosted profits, Comcast said. Revenue rose 2.9% to $9.1 billion. Analysts polled by Thomson