Techie Tuesdays: Verizon Communications

This is the sixth installment of Techie Tuesdays. So far we have looked at Exxon Mobil, Starbucks, and J.P. Morgan Chase, Medco Health Solutions and Toronto-Dominion. Today we will tackle Verizon Communications!
Verizon Communications (Ticker: VZ), known in short as Verizon, is a New York City based company that provides wireline and domestic wireless communication services. Verizon has over 228,000 employees and brought in $96.55 billion (in the 12-month period ended 9/30/08) in revenues.
Verizon’s stock has lost 25 percent of its value in the past year, which is worse than the S&P 500 (34.5 percent) in the same period. (Data from …read more