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Netflix Payoff to Comcast Worked
In a blog post on Monday, Netflix reported that its Comcast connection speed jumped 65% in March. Netflix is happy, and presumably so are its customers. The company got what it paid…
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Technology
Yahoo! Making Big TV Programming Plans
courtesy of Yahoo!Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is trying to get into the content and programming business. And in a really big way. The Wall Street Journal reports that sources say Yahoo is…
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Technology
Six Tech and Communications Buyout Candidates From Oppenheimer
ThinkstockThe analysts at Oppenheimer are making a single huge statement in a new research report. They see more technological change occurring in the next three years than at any point since the…
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Media
Comcast and Time Warner Cable Merger Faces Stock Shock Dilemma
ThinkstockComcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) is set to get even larger in cable if it is able to get the deal done with Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC). It has been nearly…
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Would a Dish and DirecTV Merger Be a Monopoly Today?
ThinkstockShares of DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV) and Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) are both gaining on a Bloomberg TV report that Dish’s Charlie Ergen has approached DirecTV about a possible merger. While this…
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Why Apple Should Just Buy Netflix
courtesy of NetflixNetflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) investors felt some real pressure on Monday after reports have come out that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has held talks with Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: AAPL) over…
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Retail
J.C. Penney CEO Gets Huge Raise
J.C. Penney Co. Inc.'s CEO Myron E. (Mike) Ullman just got a huge boost in pay after spending a year trying to right the sinking retailer's ship. Whether he deserves the pay…
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Media
Annual Video Subscriber Totals Fall for the First Time Ever
ThinkstockBy the end of 2013, the 13 largest pay TV providers had lost 105,000 video subscribers for the year. That marks the first year that pay TV posted an annual loss according…
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No Cable TV? No NCAA Final Four
ThinkstockIf you do not have a pay TV subscription, do not count on watching most of the NCAA basketball tournament that gets underway Tuesday night. You will be unable to watch any…
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The Movie Business Needs Another 2014 Blockbuster
In 2013, U.S. movie studios as a group posted gross receipts of $10.92 billion, and the top grossing film of the year was "Iron Man 3" from Walt Disney's Buena Vista studios…
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Comcast Extends Cheap Broadband to the Poor, Free Wi-Fi for Everyone
In separate reports, Comcast said it would indefinitely extend low-cost broadband service to poor families, and that it has begun to expand its Wi-Fi network to homes in the Chicago area.
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Obama Administration Sides With Broadcasters Against Aereo
ThinkstockThe U.S. Solicitor General’s office filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court Monday in support of U.S. broadcast TV networks seeking to extract licensing fees from Aereo Inc. The case…
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Telecom & Wireless
Three Stocks That Could Win Big in the Changing Bandwidth Landscape
In a new report, the telecom service analysts at Cowen highlighted three stocks likely to benefit in the huge broadband and fiber infrastructure build-out that is underway.
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Media
Disney Deal Gives Dish Its Netflix Ambitions
Dish Network and Walt Disney reached a long-term deal Monday that allows the second-largest U.S. satellite TV provider to carry Disney-owned networks, including outside of a traditional TV subscription.
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Media
Netflix Did Not Sell Out to Comcast
Most opinion seems to be that Netflix gave up on its stand for net neutrality, the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated identically, when it agreed to pay a fee…