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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) The Walt Disney Company and 21st Century Fox have struck a new merger agreement, with Fox’s leadership having rejected Comcast’s attempt to outbid Disney. Under the amended acquisition agreement announced today, Disney would buy Fox for $ 71.3 billion in cash and stock. This comes one week after […]
(credit: Comcast) Comcast today made a $ 65 billion offer to buy major portions of 21st Century Fox, setting up a potential bidding war with Walt Disney Company. Disney already struck a $ 52.4 billion all-stock deal to buy the Fox properties, but Comcast announced that it is making an all-cash offer to “provide [Fox] […]
(credit: Comcast) Comcast would support a ban on paid prioritization as long as there is an exception for “specialized services” that benefit consumers, a company executive said this week. Comcast Senior Executive VP David Cohen, who is generally the public face in Comcast’s dealings with government policymakers, spoke about paid prioritization at the Free State […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) App developer Panic Inc. knew it had a network problem when customers began complaining about trouble downloading and updating Panic apps. “Geez, your downloads are really slow!” was the common complaint that started coming in a few months ago, Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser explained in a blog post titled, “The Mystery […]
(credit: https://arstechnica.com/author/aurich-lawson/) The Federal Communications Commission has dismissed a complaint against Comcast filed by a rival that said it was forced “to pay a punitive ransom” of $ 3.5 million in order to keep airing Comcast-owned TV programming. Wave Broadband filed what it called a petition for declaratory ruling, claiming that Comcast engaged in unfair […]
If you’re an Xfinity internet customer in the northeast, it might be worth running a speed test. Comcast just announced that it’s bumping download speeds for internet users in a total of 14 northeastern states, from Maine down through Virginia. Each of the four internet tiers Xfinity offers will increase, though by how much will […]
Comcast is introducing a new feature for its Xfinity xFi customers. Starting this week, users will receive a push notification anytime there is a change in their network. That means that if your child hops on the Wi-Fi when they’re supposed to be asleep, now a push notification will rat them out. The notification events […]
The huge Disney Fox deal may have just grown more complicated. Comcast has topped Fox’s bid to buy British satellite broadcaster Sky, which could result in Fox paying more for Sky, or Disney losing a valuable property to Comcast. The big Disney Fox deal made headlines at the end of last year, with Disney purchasing […]
An interesting wrinkle in Disney’s deal to acquire most of Fox is that Fox is also in the middle of a deal to buy Sky — a major telecom company and pay-TV service in the UK. Now Comcast (which includes NBCUniversal) has jumped in the middle of that deal with an offer that values Sky […]
(credit: Comcast) A cable company that competes against Comcast says it was forced “to pay a punitive ransom totaling nearly $ 3.5 million” in order to keep airing Comcast-owned TV programming. Wave Broadband, which has about 455,000 customers in Washington, Oregon, and California, filed a complaint against Comcast-owned networks with the Federal Communications Commission in […]
