Then there was Verizon's bid to rescue #RedBox with a new joint-venture streaming service, #RedboxInstant, launched 2012, killed in 2014, $450,000,000 later:
Then there was #Sugarstring, a tech "news" website where journalists were prohibited from saying nice things about #NetNeutrality or #surveillance - born 2014, died 2014:
https://www.theverge.com/2014/12/2/7324063/verizon-kills-off-sugarstring
An app store, started in 2010, killed in 2012:
https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/5/3605618/verizon-apps-store-closing-january-2013
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#Vcast, 2005-2012, yet *another* failed streaming service (pray that someday you find someone who loves you as much as Verizon's C-suite loves doomed streaming services):
https://venturebeat.com/media/verizon-vcast-shutting-down/
And the daddy of them all, #Oath, Verizon's 2017, $4.8b acquisition of Yahoo/AOL, whose name refers to the fact that the company's mismanagement provoked involuntary swearing from all who witnessed the $4.6 billion write-down the company took a year later:
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Verizon isn't just bad at being a phone company that does non-phone-company things - it's *incredibly* bad at being a phone company, too. As Bode points out, Verizon's only real competency is in capturing its regulators at the FCC:
And sucking up *massive* public subsidies from rubes in the state houses of New York:
https://www.techdirt.com/2017/03/14/new-york-city-sues-verizon-fiber-optic-bait-switch/
New Jersey:
and Pennsylvania:
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