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The company's movie streaming deal with Verizon is a classic adjacency move that leverages the brand while limiting the risk. Redbox and Verizon announced this week they are teaming up to offer an online movie streaming service that competes directly with Netflix. We think it’s a great strategic investment that will likely reap positive returns.

The Coinstar subsidiary announces plans to partner with Verizon to compete with streaming video giants Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu. Coinstar subsidiary Redbox today announced a new partnership with Verizon for the launch of a streaming video service.

Since the iPhone first arrived on the scene, it has been used to access mobile data like no other device before it .

Ted Leonsis says business can add real value by ensuring customers and employees are happy.

Verizon and AmEx have plans to let customers order items simply by typing in their phone number. It's all about integrating AmEx's Serve platform into the phones and tablets Verizon sells--an expansion of some fledgling "pay by phone" systems, and very different than the systems other teams are planning for the future of mobile payments.

Apple naysayers love to point out the growing presence of Android-powered smartphones. Apple fans counter with a reminder that no one Android phone outsells the iPhone.

It looks like the iPhone 5 won't be out until later this year...but there is plenty to talk about already. Here's our summary of the hottest hints on Apple's next big trendsetting device. The iPhone--love it or hate it--has played a huge role in redefining the entire smartphone genre.

It's perhaps the most convincing clue yet that Apple may be coming out with an iPhone 5 "Lite": Older iPhone 3GSs and iPad 1s are outselling individual competing units from Android handset makers.

The beautiful thing about disposing of your old electronics is that doing the right thing gives you more than a rosy feeling; it can actually pay you.

AT&T's smartphone business is booming, according to the lastest numbers--with the iPhone in the lead.

Two intriguing rumors have popped up at almost the same time: A number of photos of an assumed iPod Touch that has no physical home button, hinting at the iPhone 5, and a keypad-less HP device that could be the webOS clone of Apple's invention. Website PreCentral , which secured early images of the Verizon Pre 3, has published images of what seems to be a keyboard-less Pre smartphone, with a screen slightly larger than earlier Pre devices and what seems to be a front-facing camera set off-center at the top of the phone. According to earlier leaked data, the device could be codenamed the Stingray (the Pre 3 was codenamed Mantaray).

Despite its mysterious PR aura, Apple is generally pretty reliable when it comes to releasing new hardware at a particular time. But now there are rumors that its hardware release dates may be pushed back later than usual this year.

1. Despite the fact that Verizon's CEO revealed his company wouldn't be appealing the union of AT&T and T-Mobile (and that he thought regulators would approve) Sprint has just revealed it will appeal to Congress to halt the telecoms deal.

AT&T's deal to buy T-Mobile USA has already caused plenty of discussion.

We wondered if this would be true: An investigation into Verizon's iPhone data performance reveals a sad reality.