‘Best deal in town’: Rogers steeply discounts high-speed broadband to make up for ‘inferior’ TV offering, analyst says

[ad_1] Rogers Communications Inc. introduced a “steep and extended discount” for a package with gigabit Internet and television, a move Barclays analyst Phillip Huang sees as a way for the cable giant to keep broadband customers given its “inferior” television product. Rogers is offering 1 gigabit per second Internet and 100 channels (including HBO) for…

Hack or no hack, the sale is getting done: Yahoo salvages Verizon deal with $350 million discount

[ad_1] NEW YORK — Yahoo is taking a $350 million hit on its previously announced $4.8 billion sale to Verizon in a concession for security lapses that exposed personal information stored in more than 1 billion Yahoo user accounts. The revised agreement announced Tuesday eases investor worries that Verizon Communications Inc. would demand a discount of…