Comcast’s top lawyer is taking a more aggressive tone at a time when attention is shifting to the internet implications of its proposed merger with Time Warner Cable. Read more »
If AT&T gets DirecTV, it could tightly package paid TV programming with broadband, making it difficult an more expensive to rely solely on over-the-top services for your video content. Read more »
Comcast is currently barred from offering paid prioritization of bits until 2018. But under the FCC’s proposed new net neutrality rules, other ISPs are free to create a two-sided market. Read more »
Writing regulations to address a complex issue like internet peering could take years and would likely be subject to years more of court challenges. Read more »
In a memo Thursday morning, Comcast EVP David Cohen described the company’s $45.2 billion merger with Time Warner Cable as a “friendly transaction” that’s “firmly in the public interest” — partly… Read more »
Long before streaming became widely available, Blockbuster suffered two major blows that had little to do with technology per se but left the company severely weakened, both strategically and financially. Read more »
I still don’t see the case for technology company buying Netflix. Content services are valuable to technology companies only insofar as they’re proprietary to a particular technology platform, which is at… Read more »
Whatever pretense may have held last week that Carl Icahn’s accumulation of a 9.98 percent stake in Netflix was anything other than a hostile raid on the company and its cash… Read more »
Carl Icahn is clearly betting he can force Netflix into a sale that will produce a windfall for his stake. But if that doesn’t work he will almost certainly go after… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) shares opened four percent lower Tuesday after Monday’s after-market announcement that it is taking $400 million to fue… Read more »