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Wallstrip: Solving the Bandwidth Problem
There's just not enough room on the Internet anymore. Unless someone comes up with a solution to provide unlimited bandwidth, one of you has to leave.
Tags: vacation, internet, bandwidth, att, cable, comcast, warner, time, jim, nyse, nasdaq, invest, investing, stock stock exchange, stocks, wallstrip, julie alexandria, howard lindzon, short, oz, of, wizard, man, tin, color, living, in, cat, damon, wayans, porn, martin, steve, amigos, three, chevy, chase, national, lampoon
Videos 2008-07-09
Tivo: God's Machine
The more reality shows people become obsessed with, the better Tivo does. So they're not going anywhere. Tivo recently won its patent lawsuit and that means big bucks and a new stronghold on the market.
Tags: TiVo Inc., tivo, dvr, digital, video, recording, michael, powell, tv, television, time, warner, comcast, echostar, dish, network, motorola, indiana, jones, floyd, mayweather, dancing, stars, web video, cbs, cbs news, cbs.com, howard lindzon, closing bell, julie alexandria, wallstrip, wallstreet, stocks, stock market, stock exchange, money, finance, investing, invest, nasdaq, nyse, cash, business, warren, buffet, berkshire hathaway, day trade, trends, cnbc, trading, market, jim cramer, britney
Videos 2008-03-14
@ UBS Media Week In Tweets: Bartz: 'God Bless Tiger''
Follow us on Twitter for continuous updates @paidContent here.»  Bartz: Tiger better than Michael Jackson. Can’t place ads next to funeral.»  Yahoo’s Bartz: God bless Tiger. This week we got a huge uplift. News, sports, gossip. Just filtered through the whole place.»  Yahoo’s Bartz would like to get hyperlocal...
Tags: Brian Roberts, Advertisement, CBS Corp., UBS AG, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Advertising, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Cable & Telecom, Events, UBS Media Week, Companies, CBS, Comcast, NBC Universal, Verizon, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-12-08
GE's Immelt: NBCU-Comcast Discussions Are About Partnerships Or IPO
GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt admits the company is in discussions with Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) about NBC Universal’s future but says the conversations GE is having about the media unit’s future center on partnerships or, surprising some, an IPO—not an outright sale. Answering a question at a meeting in New...
Tags: Partnership, General Electric Co., Vivendi Universal, IPO, Business Structures, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Comcast, NBC Universal, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-10-02
Sprint and Clearwire form WiMax alliance
Sprint and Clearwire plan to bring a mobile WiMax network to up to 140m users in the US after completing their merger. Sprint will own 51% of the joint venture with Clearwire retaining around 22%. A consortium of investors including Comcast, Intel, Time Warner Cable, Google and Bright House...
Tags: Alliance, Clearwire Corp., Sprint Communications, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Bright House Networks, Clearwire Corporation, Comcast, Google, Intel, Sprint Nextel, Time Warner Cable, George Mitton
Articles 2008-12-01
Movies.com sale nets Disney USD14m
Disney gained USD14m from the June sale of Movies.com to online ticket service Fandango, a filing shows. Fandango, the online tickets retailer owned by Comcast, bought the domain from Disney earlier this year, without disclosing how much it paid. In its annual tax filing with the Security Exchange Commission...
Tags: Disney Corp., Movies.com, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Comcast, Fandango, Lehman Brothers, The Walt Disney Company, Francesco Canepa
Articles 2008-11-25
Filings Watch: Disney Sold Movies.com To Comcast For $17 Million
Earlier this year in June, Fandango, the online movie tickets service which is part of Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), bought out movies info site Movies.com from Disney (NYSE: DIS), for an undisclosed sum at that time. Now the amount has come out, in Disney's latest annual 10-K filing with...
Tags: Disney Corp., Comcast Corp., Movies.com, Info Site, Companies, Comcast, Disney, Entertainment, Movies, VC+M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Rafat Ali, The Walt Disney Co.
External links 2008-11-25
Lionsgate invests USD8.6m in joint TV venture
Movie production studio Lionsgate says it has so far invested USD8.6m in the new video-on-demand VoD channel it is launching next year with Viacom's Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM. Lionsgate's investment represents 28.57% of the venture, known as Studio 3...
Tags: Channel, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, VoD, Viacom Inc., Lionsgate, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Charlotte Eyre, Comcast, HBO, Lions Gate Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Time Warner, Viacom
Articles 2008-11-12
Wallstrip: Twitter
Twitter: because you're holding on to the illusion that other people care about what you're doing.
Tags: twitter, howard lindzon, julie alexandria, wallstrip, stocks, stock stock exchange, investing, invest, nasdaq, nyse, what are you doing, web 2.0, micro blogging, tweety, sylvester, china, olberman, rave, comcast, fedex, jetblue, ebert and roeper, television, ben stiller, cable guy, nasa, fire department
Videos 2008-08-11
UBS Media Week By Tweets: Roberts Says NBCU Deal Will Cost About $5 Billion
Reaction to the Comcast-NBCU deal dominated the early going today at UBS Media Week. Here is a selection of my Tweets from the conference Follow us on Twitter for continuous updates @paidContent here.»  Turn NBC into a cable channel? Comcast’s Burke: “Hard to imagine how you would do that...
Tags: NBC Universal Inc., Comcast Corp., UBS AG, NBCU, Burke, Jeff Zucker, Cable, Mergers & Acquisitions, Network Technology, Taxes, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Investment, Finance, Networking, Financial Planning, Companies, Comcast, NBC Universal, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-12-07
UBS Media Week: WaPo's Graham: Having 'Conversations' About Online Pay; Backs Comcast-NBCU Deal
The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) continues to avoid any overt suggestion that it will start charging for charging for Washington Post content online but CEO Don Graham’s response to an investor at the UBS conference this morning left some wiggle room. “We haven’t announced any plans to charge...
Tags: Facebook, Washington Post Co., UBS AG, Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Advertising, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Newspapers, TV, Broadcast, Companies, Comcast, NBC Universal, Washington Post, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-12-07
Google Quietly Tries Brokering Deals With ISPs To Get Priority Access
Congress has failed to pass legislation regarding so-called "Net Neutrality," and now the issue is again top of mind as Internet providers seeking preferential treatment; network operators considering a tiered approach, and once-staunch defenders beginning to soften their stance on the matter. This time, it appears Google (NSDQ: GOOG),...
Tags: Google Inc., Wall Street Journal, Phone, Telephone Company, Microsoft Access, Network, AT&T Corp., Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Broadband, Companies, Comcast, Microsoft, Viacom, Yahoo, Legal, FCC, Regulatory, Media, TV, Cable & Telecom, IPTV, Tricia Duryee, Comcast Corp.
External links 2008-12-15
Earnings: Comcast Profits Gain 53 Percent With Tax Boost
It looks like the recession is good for the cable industry. Although Cablevision's recent earnings report was a bit mixed, Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) reported a pretty strong Q2, as profits rose 53 percent to $967 million ($0.33 per share) boosted by favorable tax settlements and revenues were up 4.5...
Tags: Revenue, Comcast Corp., Earnings, Cable Segment, Cable, Taxes, Network Technology, Corporate Communications, Operational Accounting, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Financial Planning, Finance, Networking, Marketing, Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, Money, Companies, Comcast, David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-06
Earnings Call: Comcast's Roberts: Canoe Ventures Revenues Expected By 2010
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) executives continued to highlight the importance of their digital plans during the Q2 earnings call. Deals with Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) for the rollout of its 4G service were highlighted as well as its All Digital initiative. Brian Roberts also discussed the progress made on the cable...
Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Comcast Corp., Earnings, Programming, Operational Accounting, Finance, Advertising, Local, Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, Money, Companies, Clearwire, Comcast, David Kaplan, Clearwire Corp.
External links 2009-08-06
Comcast & NBCU: A List of Content Assets
With more reports about Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) talks about a content combination, thought it would make sense to lay out the content assets that both companies own; NBCU’s assets are well known, Comcast’s gets a bit lost in its cable giant image:Comcast:—E! Entertainment Television—The...
Tags: Comcast Corp., Comcast, Companies, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Money, NBC Universal, Rafat Ali, Asset Management, NBC Universal Inc., Asset, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Marketing, Operational Planning
External links 2009-10-01
More on Comcast-NBCU Deal Talks: Spinoff and Majority Stake Ideas Floated
Lots of going back and forth since the first report last night about Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) in talks to buy NBC Universal (NYSE: GE). CNBC’s Dan Faber is now reporting that GE would spin off NBCU into a new company that would be “merged with the content assets of...
Tags: General Electric Co., Comcast Corp., Vivendi Universal, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Comcast, NBC Universal, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-10-01
Manifest Destiny: Comcast in Talks With NBCU?
This has been talked about so many times, it is almost manifest destiny. TheWrap is reporting that Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) is in talks to acquired NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) from GE, and that the bankers on both sides had a meeting yesterday in New York. The cable giant has...
Tags: General Electric Co., Comcast Corp., TheWrap, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Companies, Comcast, NBC Universal, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-09-30
FCC Lays Out Potential New Rules For The Open Internet; No Discrimination And Transparency Are Key
As expected, the FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski laid out the agency’s plans this morning for new rules that will prevent telecom companies from discriminating what kind of traffic or applications run over wired or wireless networks. In a lengthy speech at The Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization...
Tags: FCC, Network, Apple Inc., Wireless, Internet, Federal Government, Networking, Government, Legal, Regulatory, Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPhone, AT&T, Comcast, Google, Tricia Duryee
External links 2009-09-21
FCC To Propose New Net Neutrality Rules; Wireless Operators Will Be Affected Too
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will give a speech on Monday that will outline new net neutrality rules, which will dictate how internet and wireless providers treat or restrict the flow of content, according to several reports who are familiar with the speech. Reuters reports the proposed rules could potentially...
Tags: FCC, Network, Net Neutrality, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Legal, Regulatory, Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, Companies, AT&T, Clearwire, Comcast, Google, Verizon, Tricia Duryee
External links 2009-09-18
Communacopia Roundup: Bewkes Rejects Disney Stance On TV Everywhere, Diller Applauds Bewkes And More
The Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVIII Conference has wrapped up day two the three-day CEO-fest. Here’s a sampling of notable comments from the conference, including Time Warner’s Jeff Bewkes, IAC’s Barry Diller, Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) CFO Michael Angelakis and others.—Duking it out over TV Everywhere: The appearances by Disney (NYSE:...
Tags: Time Warner Inc., Disney Corp., NYSE Euronext, IAC/InterActive Corp., Comcast Corp., CFO, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Entertainment, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, TV, Cable & Telecom, Mobile, Companies, Comcast, Disney, IAC, NBC Universal, News Corp., Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal, Time Warner, David Kaplan
External links 2009-09-16
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