Verizon may have been waiting for years now to get its hands on the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone, but that extended period hasn’t depreciated the value of at least one item: the pricetag for subsidising the device, which analysts say may end up costing the carrier between $3 billion and…

Aryeh Bourkoff and Mark Lewisohn will be joint global heads of media and communications for UBS, reports DealBook. They are to succeed Jeff Sine, a vice chairman who is resigning, according to the NYT blog’s sources; the announcement is expected Thursday. Bourkoff remains in New York; Lewisohn is based in…

Is McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) working on a bid for Reed Business Information? We had been working on a tip to this effect for the last two months, but at that time, the thought was that MGH was only interested in buying the constructions titles of RBI, for its own construction…

So some reality check coming into the sale process of Reed Business Information, the business publishing arm of Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) . We have learned that Apax, initially thought of as being one of the main contenders to buy the RBI worldwide division as a whole, is now sitting…

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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is spinning a shift in its access deal with Canada’s Rogers Communications as an expanded strategic relationship but UBS analyst Ben Schachter has the right perspective: it’s a revenue shift away from fees and towards potentially lucrative but possibly riskier advertising. Rogers is swapping its broadband services…