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Verizon Champions Digital Wellness With New Initiatives On Global Day Of Unplugging

As the Global Day of Unplugging kicked off, Verizon took a stand against digital overload by launching new programs and partnerships.

Mar 10, 2025

What's Next For Verizon In 2024 Following Their Recent Layoffs

Learn the impact of Verizon's restructuring and potential layoffs in 2024, following a trend in the telecom industry.

Feb 16, 2024

Cxmmunity To Host Second Annual HBCU Esports League With Support From T-Pain, And More

Cxmmunity will host the HBCU Esports League Verizon Celebrity Pro-Am to support gamers with scholarships and esports labs.

Mar 23, 2022

Verizon's Krista Bourne Worked Her Way Up For Over Two Decades To Become Its First Black Woman COO

After working at Verizon Consumer Group for over 20 years, Krista Bourne became the company's first Black female COO.

Mar 14, 2022

Byron Allen, Verizon Team Up To Host Black-Owned Media Summit In May

Verizon and Byron Allen's Allen Media Group have joined forces to launch a new DEI initiative for a Black-owned media summit scheduled for May.

Apr 8, 2021

Verizon Aims to Close Digital Divide For Underserved Communities With Inclusive Internet Initiative

Telecom company Verizon has created a way to make reliable, high-speed internet more accessible to those in underserved communities amid the digital age.

Jan 6, 2021

Verizon Pledges $7.5M to Funding Businesses in 'Economically Vulnerable Communities'

Verizon is showing their support during the COVID-19 pandemic by giving out grants to struggling minority and small businesses.

May 4, 2020

Verizon Wants To Sell Tumblr And Pornhub May Be Interested

Tumblr has seen quite a few different owners in the past few years. In 2013, the online blogging platform was sold to Yahoo for $1.1 billion in hopes that it’d make the company relevant on the internet once again. That didn’t really work out because Yahoo itself was acquired by Verizon in 2017 . It’s clear that Verizon has never really known what to do with Tumblr. Last year , Verizon banned all pornography and sexually explicit content on Tumblr after finding child pornography on the platform. Critics of the move argue that Verizon could have worked to crack down on the exploitation of minors specifically because Tumblr was pretty well-known for its not-safe-for-work (NSFW) scene. Since the ban, Mashable reported that Tumblr lost almost a third of its users. Now, Verizon is looking to sell Tumblr, according to The Verge — and one company is already expressing interest. In a statement to BuzzFeed News , Corey Price, Vice President of Pornhub, said his company was “extremely...

May 3, 2019