SAN FRANCISCO --With DirecTV Broadband poised to dismantle its high-speed Internet service, consumers are losing one of the last alternatives to the increasingly dominant telephone and cable giants.

DirecTV has been waging a war on piracy that makes the record labels look nonchalant. The company has filed about 10,000 lawsuits and mailed more than 100,000 "demand letters" giving suspected pirates ...

DirecTV plans to deliver local broadcast channel service in up to 50 additional markets by the end of this year, which would nearly double its current count of 51 markets. Ten of the new markets will ...

NEW YORK — Hughes Electronics’ DirecTV has ended a 4-year-old strategic alliance with America Online, pulling the plug on Internet service AOL Plus and taking a $23 million charge, according to a ...

Leading U.S. satcaster DirecTV will launch a seven-channel high definition package July 1, in an effort to seize the premium high ground over cable. Announcement comes a day after Cablevision revealed ...

Hughes Electronics Corp.’s DirecTV said it would add more subscribers this year than it had expected because of the success of a football programming package and other promotions. Revenue at the ...