Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ),[1] is a telephone, internet service provider, and television company in the United States. It also owns a mobile phone company, Verizon Wireless. Verizon was created in 2000 by merging GTE and Bell Atlantic. These companies had already absorbed other companies, some of them more than a hundred years old. The biggest ones were formerly owned by AT&T.
| Company type | Cross-listed Public company |
|---|---|
| NYSE: VZ NASDAQ: VZ[1] Dow Jones Industrial Average Component S&P 500 Component | |
| Headquarters | Verizon Building New York City, United States |
Key people | Lowell McAdam (Chairman, President and CEO) |
| Services | Fixed-line and mobile telephony, broadband and fixed-line internet services, digital television and network services |
| Total equity |  US$ 85.9 billion (2011)[2] |
| Divisions | Verizon New England Verizon New York Verizon Delaware Verizon New Jersey Verizon Pennsylvania Verizon North Verizon Maryland Verizon Washington, D.C. Verizon Virginia Verizon California |
| Subsidiaries | AT&T GTE MCI Inc. NYNEX Diamond State Telephone New Jersey Bell Bell of Pennsylvania Verizon North The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Verizon California Terremark Vodafone Italy (23.14%) |
| Website | www |
In 2015, Verizon bought the Internet company AOL, and the next year it bought Yahoo!. Both of these purchases were for about US$4.4 billion.[4] Today, both AOL and Yahoo! are part of a subsidiary created by Verizon called Oath Inc.[5]
Verizon is one of the few publicly-traded companies to have a stock on both the NYSE and the NASDAQ. Its NYSE listing has been one of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 2004.[6]
Verizon Media
Service van with Verizon's former logo and livery
Alternate version of the 2024 Verizon logo, used as an icon on website and social media platforms.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 About Verizon Wireless: Facts-at-a-Glance. Retrieved 2012-12-07.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Verizon Communications Inc. 2011 Annual Report, Form 10-K, Filing Date Feb 16, 2012secdatabase.com. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
- ↑ CBS MarketWatch profile, Verizon Communications, Inc.
- ↑ "Verizon to buy Yahoo for $4.83 billion, merge it with AOL" (in en). CNET. 2016-07-25. https://www.cnet.com/news/verizon-buying-yahoo-likely-merging-it-with-aol/. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
- ↑ Heater, Brian. Yahoo + AOL = Oath, for some reason (in en-US). TechCrunch (2017-04-03). Retrieved 2018-03-18.
- ↑ Isidore, Chris. Dow Jones industrial average gets first overhaul since 1999. CNN Money (2004-04-01). Retrieved 2018-03-18.
