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- My hunch: Vonage's silence could mean looming private equity deal. And then....
- Fellow blogger Andy Abramson notes that Vonage- they of the new press release every day- has been awful quiet on that front for at least the last two weeks.Andy thinks, as do I, that this could mean something big is up. After all, why put out flotsam that some...
- Tags: Vonage, SprintNextel
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- Source VERY close to Vonage: Sprint may take small stake
- Ill name the source. Hes Dan Connor, founder and administrator of the 41,000-Member Vonage Forum.Although the Vonage Forum is totally independent of Vonage, it is important to realize that Dan has a close relationship with the company. The Forum has sent lots of new customers to Vonage over the...
- Tags: General, Russell Shaw, Sprint Communications, SprintNextel, Vonage, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Speculation: Vonage may sell itself to SprintNextel as soon as next week
- Thats according to one unnamed analyst paraphrased today by Light Reading reporter Raymond McConville.Articulating that scenario, McConville references the ongoing patent infringement dispute between SprintNextel and Vonage- and arguably cryptic statements by a Vonage executive that a settlement could be in the works.Referencing a recent analyst call, McConville notes that...
- Tags: Vonage, SprintNextel, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
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- Vonage's 3Q numbers are in: four reasons why their future looks dim
-  First, let's do the numbers. Vonage's latest quarterly numbers were reported today. Vonage said its net loss for the third quarter jumped to $161.8 million, or $1.04 a share. That's quite worse than the loss of $62.2 million, or 40 cents a share, it...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Here we go again: AT&T files patent infringement suit against Vonage
- On Friday, AT&T filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Vonage. The filing, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, alleges that Vonage infringed on an AT&T patent relating to telephone systems that allow VoIP calls to be made using...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., AT&T Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-20
- What Vonage's wild stock ride and appeal of Verizon patent judgment tells us
- I know this isn't a financial blog, but after assessing Vonage's stock price over the last several days, I've come to some conclusions. Over the last few weeks, the stock had been trading at or around $1 a share. Then, following the patent...
- Tags: Stock, Vonage Holdings Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- Foreseen: Forsee out at Sprint. But will they learn from these mistakes under his watch?
- As I posted last week- and with plenty of reasons offered- SprintNextel's feckless CEO Gary Forsee- was finally encountering some real thin ice. Only it didn't take that long before he slipped through said ice. He's out as of today. Why?...
- Tags: Sprint Communications, WiMAX, VOIP, Telephony, Telecommunications, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Re Vonage-Sprint: so what, exactly, does "productive future relationship" mean?
- Concentrating on what today's about-face Vonage $80 million licensing-cum-settlement with SprintNextel means for the possibility that Vonage has figured out that it is better to settle than fight, it is easy to overlook this nugget from today's Vonage press release: "We are pleased to resolve our dispute with Sprint...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Sprint Communications, Future Relationship, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- It's about time dept.: Sprint CEO draws investor heat
- Now, finally, a dissident SprintNextel shareholder with quite a bit of clout is expressing some very public discontent about how the company is being run. Very public, as in an interview with two Wall Street Journal reporters posted today. "We...
- Tags: Wall Street Journal, Sprint Communications, Investor, Corporate Governance, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
- Prof: footnote in eBay Patent case COULD give Vonage a break in theirs
- A footnote near the end of last week's partial remand decision by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, first found by University of Missouri law professor Dennis Crouch, could be interpreted as a legal recourse for giving Vonage a break in its patent disputes with...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., U.S. Supreme Court, eBay Inc., Prof, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- In light of Patent woes, Vonage could be acquired by Sprint after all
- Opinions are starting to gather about what yesterday's court decision holding Vonage as infringer in six SprintNextel patents means. Noting Vonage stock's all-time low closing price of $1.30 a share yesterday, Om thinks it is only a matter of time before Vonage disappears,...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Sprint Communications, Richard, Telephony, B2B, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- BULLETIN: Vonage loses patent infringement suit
- Less than an hour ago, a jury in Kansas City, Kan. decided that Vonage is guilty of infringing on VoIP-related patents held by SprintNextel. The jury held that Vonage should pay SprintNextel $69.5 million in damages, as well as a 5.5 percent royalty on future revenue....
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- Sprint attorney at infringement trial: without our inventions, Vonage ..."could not exist"
- Testimony is under way in the patent infringement trial pitting Vonage against SprintNextel. Attorneys for SprintNextel are demanding $103 million from Vonage for what they believe is infringing use of SprintNextel technology to build its network. The particular alleged infringements relate to the way...
- Tags: Testimony, Vonage Holdings Corp., Sprint Communications, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-05
- Hey guess what: trying to cancel Vonage service is a pain in the..
- DSL Reports has a post today that further reinforces the difficulty of trying to cancel your Vonage account.The post comes as a result of a consumer complaint about the cumbersome Vonage cancellation process. The complaint was received by Karl at DSL Reports.Here is the cancellation complaint:"The last time I called...
- Tags: Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Speculation: Vonage may sell itself to SprintNextel as soon as next week
- Speculation: Vonage may sell itself to SprintNextel as soon as next weekIrresponsible reporting on Vonage Verizon battleit never ceases to amaze me what self proclaimed journalists will write when facts arent available. The articles on Vonage like the one mentioned here are no exceptions to the irresponsibility these people demonstrate....
- Tags: VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-01
- News to know: BlackBerry outage; Oracle patches; Intel's data centers; Vonage woe
- Notable headlines:Russell Shaw: BlackBerry outage reports pile up on the three major BB forums. BULLETIN: massive BlackBerry email failures Tuesday night.Ryan Naraine: Oracle Patch Day: 37 flaws fixed. Botnet herders pounce on Windows DNS RPC flaw.Larry Dignan: Yup, those Yahoo Panama expectations were too high. Techmeme discussion. Privacy concerns dog...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Here's why SprintNextel's CEO should be fired- NOW
- A good backgrounder for this rant would be Sprints Big Pipe Dream, a piece that ran in TheStreet.com on Monday.Writer Scott Moritz uses terms such as "dismal" and "repeated stumbles" to set up SprintNextels 19-city, 4G wireless broadband intentions as a bright spot in contrast with what he-...
- Tags: SprintNextel, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- I'll say it again: Vonage will go private
- Fellow blogger Andy Abramson thinks that with the decline in the price of Vonage stock as a result of the federal court ruling denying Vonage the use of patented Verizon technology, the most advisable route is a sale.Andy mentions Verizon as a possible acquirer, but adds that there could...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., SprintNextel
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- One of these seven fates awaits Vonage
- Vonage, which started out in the public markets as a company with a $17 a share IPO valuation, has been in the "sevens" for several weeks now.Right now, it doesn't appear that the company's stock will go much lower or higher in the short term. For at least the near-term...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Telephony, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-10-30
- Why SprintNextel's COO got the boot
- SprintNextel's chief operating officer Len Lauer got the boot yesterday. The reasons he was let go amount to one overarching cause: poor execution. As the Wall Street Journal's Amol Sharmer and Shawn Young note, more than a year after Sprint's acquisition of Nextel, the consumer-centric focus of Sprint and...
- Tags: Nextel Communications Inc., Sprint Communications, SprintNextel
- Blog posts 2006-08-23
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