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While it's true that the CEO is responsible for the overall vision of a wireline provider, it's the innovative spirit of other members that that also help drive new services and network transformations.

CenturyLink said that its aggressive fiber to the tower plans will help it stabilize revenue and reduce maintenance costs.

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." -Theodore Roosevelt It's mid-morning at the office.

That's what Comcast did with Minneapolis attorneys Richard Fuller and Charles Horowitz, who recently opened a new two-person law firm.

CenturyLink plans to lay off 51 employees in Hood River and close its call center there this summer, the company told employees this afternoon.

Ray Dalio, a macro-oriented founder of the world's largest hedge fund for two years running, Bridgewater Associates, bought 121 new U.S. stocks in the first quarter, according to GuruFocus' Real Time Picks .

Google Fiber has added Gladstone, Mo., as the latest municipality in the Kansas City area to get its 1 Gbps fiber to the premises service.

A Multnomah County judge managed to rain down bad news on both CenturyLink and the Oregonian editorial board today - upholding an incremental land-line phone tax proposed by former Mayor Sam Adams to help pay for police reforms put forward by the US Department of Justice.

Ptolemy Data Systems in Sheridan, Visionary Communications in Gillette, TCT of Basin, and Green House Data in Cheyenne are working together to establish Bighorn Fiber, the state's first Internet peering exchange.

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In the Money Talks blog, The World-Herald shares the latest in Nebraska business and development, with behind-the-scenes notes from our Money team.

The clock hits 6:34 a.m. at the Jansen home in northwest Omaha, and five 14-year-olds hustle out the door with backpacks to catch their bus.

Recently, I've had a string of run-ins with companies that have left me pondering that question.

Looking for a new job? Bellevue Patch is here to help with a roundup of what's available in and around town.

BY KEN LITTLE STAFF WRITER Greene County's new "next generation" 911 communications system should be installed in about three weeks, county 911 Director Jerry Bird said Thursday.

The estimated $40 million to $50 million needed to build-out Longmont's high-speed broadband network may come in the form of private-activity bonds.

The Island Packet reports that Centurylink is appealing the contract saying it were never told about the county's planned E-911 upgrade.

The firm currently has an "overweight" rating on the stock. Shares of CenturyLink traded down 0.16% during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $37.24. CenturyLink has a 52 week low of $32.05 and a 52 week high of $43.43. The stock's 50-day moving average is currently $36.45. The company has a market cap of $23.306 billion and a P/E ratio of 29.84.

Cyan, an emerging software-defined networking and packet-optical transport platform vendor, saw its initial public offer of 8 million shares of common stock, priced at $11 per share, open at $10.05 this morning on the New York Stock Exchange.

CenturyLink has announced it intends to connect 48,000 west Omaha homes and businesses to new 1Gbps fibre-optic architecture 'to create a more robust network'. Customers in the mooted deployment area are expected to receive the service by early-October 2013, and the company will evaluate factors such as positive community support, competitive ... (more)