Back in 2003, we had written about how Verizon's CEO, Ivan Seidenberg, was betting big on future technologies. It was in response to a Business Week profile that oddly positioned the idea of installing fiber-to-the-home as being a huge risk. Lots of investors were against it, because it was expensive. But if you looked at where the market was really heading, you could see that it would positi...

PAY DECREASE: The AP found the compensation of Verizon Communications Inc.' CEO Ivan Seidenberg fell 14 percent in 2009 amid layoffs that accompanied the decline of the company's fixed-line phone business.MILLIONS LESS: Seidenberg received compensation valued at $17.5 million, down from $20.2...

The Associated Press has found that the total compensation of Verizon Communications' CEO fell 14 percent in 2009 amid layoffs that accompanied the decline of the company's fixed-line phone business.Ivan Seidenberg received compensation in fiscal 2009 valued at $17.5 million, down from $20.2...

Late last month, Ivan Seidenberg, the CEO of Verizon Communications had expressed interest in working with Apple and had said that it was up to Cupertino to move forward on that. Now, it looks like Apple has already taken the step forward. According to an unconfirmed report from OTR Global,...

Verizon Communications Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg finally put aside the company's long-standing coyness about when it might entertain an iPhone on its network. He told analysts during the company's third-quarter conference call this week that the company would be happy to have the iPhone, but that the decision "is exclusively in Apple's court." "We would obviously be inte...

Sure, Verizon's been ripping into the iPhone with the iDon't series of ads for its new Android-run Droid smartphone, but that doesn't mean it is not open to bringing Apple's smartphone onboard. Here's what Verizon Wireless CEO Ivan Seidenberg...

After rubbishing the iPhone in the "Droid Does" ad campaign and also taking a direct swipe at iPhone's carrier AT&T earlier, Verizon now seems all ready to work with Cupertino in the future. According to a statement by the CEO of Verizon Communications, Ivan Seidenberg, the ball is entirely in...

Verizon wants the iPhone desperately but Apple at the moment are not prepared to offer it. According to Verizon’s CEO Ivan Seidenberg, the decision is exclusively in Apple’s court. Last year Ivan when asked how Verizon would compete with the iPhone 3G replied ‘Steve Jobs eventually will get old… I like our chances’ It has already been

With all of the anti-iPhone advertising coming out of Verizon lately you'd think the company had no interest at all in dealing with Apple. Apparently this is not the case, considering the words of Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg during a third quarter earnings conference call. Seidenberg explained that the decision to launch an iPhone on Verizon's network is "exclusively in Apple's cour...

According to Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon wants the iPhone, but Apple isnt offering it yet. More precisely: “This is a decision that is exclusively in Apple’s court. We obviously would be interested at any point in the future they thought it would make sense for them to have us as a partner. And ...