In a (perhaps not so shocking) turn of events, the Walt Disney Company has reentered its tug-of-war with Comcast over the acquisition of Fox’s film and TV divisions with a new $71.3 billion bid today. This bid is not only $18.9 billion higher than its original bid in December but it has also changed its terms, which […]
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AT&T completes its acquisition of Time Warner
AT&T has sealed the deal to buy Time Warner in a major piece of media and technology consolidation. The deal — which is $85.4 billion and a total of $108 billion with debt — was first announced in October 2016 and, having passed a court approval earlier this week, it was completed on Thursday. That’s a long cycle […]
View More AT&T completes its acquisition of Time WarnerComcast bids $65B for Fox assets, setting the stage for a fight with Disney
Comcast made good on its plans to make an offer for 21st Century Fox’s film and TV assets today, with a cash bid of $65 billion, or $35 per share. That’s 19 percent more than the $52.4 billion that Disney agreed to pay in December. This follows yesterday’s U.S. court approval of the merger of […]
View More Comcast bids $65B for Fox assets, setting the stage for a fight with DisneyVerizon trolls Comcast on Twitter after nationwide Xfinity Voice outage
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Verizon’s social media team isn’t messing around.
With Comcast’s Xfinity Voice phone service experiencing outages today across the country, the company tweeted out a statement assuring its customers that it was looking into the problem that Down Detector notes spans from New York City to San Francisco.
@VerizonSupport was watching.
@comcastbusiness customers may still be experiencing an issue with their Voice service. We appreciate your patience as we continue to resolve. Please continue to check back here for more updates.
— ComcastCares (@comcastcares) June 6, 2018
As working to resolve the problem is not the same as having resolved it, business owners that rely on Xfinity Voice for their phone service were understandably pissed. Many voiced that displeasure on Twitter. Read more…
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People love streaming services such as Netflix and Twitch. Their internet service providers? Not so much.
That’s the conclusion reached by the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) report, which used data from around 250,000 customer interviews.
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This year, satisfaction with internet service providers reached an all-time low.
Spectrum — formerly known as Time Warner Cable — received a score of 60 out of 100, an 8 percent drop from last year. Comcast’s Xfinity received the same score. The most popular service was Verizon’s Fios, which dropped from 71 to 70 over the last year. Read more…
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View More Everyone hates Comcast and loves NetflixNetflix magic market number larger than big cable company’s magic market number
Netflix’s market cap is now larger than Comcast, which is pretty much just a symbolic thing given that the companies are valued very differently but is like one of those moments where Apple was larger than Exxon and may be some kind of watershed moment for technology. Or not. A couple notes on this largely […]
View More Netflix magic market number larger than big cable company’s magic market numberComcast closing in on plan to challenge Disney’s Fox bid
Seems Disney might not be able to waltz into a 21st Century Fox acquisition, after all. Comcast this morning announced plans to launch its own bid from the movie studio, offering a vague outline for a planned bid. In a statement, Comcast says it’s in the “advanced stages of preparing” an offer for the bits […]
View More Comcast closing in on plan to challenge Disney’s Fox bidComcast’s mesh Wi-Fi system, xFi Pods, launches nationwide
Comcast today is officially launching its own Wi-Fi extender devices called xFi Pods that help to address problems with weak Wi-Fi signals in parts of a customer’s home due to things like the use of building materials that disrupt signals, or even just the home’s design. The launch follows Comcast’s announcement last year that it […]
View More Comcast’s mesh Wi-Fi system, xFi Pods, launches nationwideComcast is leaking the names and passwords of customers’ wireless routers
Comcast has just been caught in a major security snafu: revealing the passwords of its customers’ Xfinity-provided wireless routers in plaintext on the web. Anyone with a subscriber’s account number and street number will be served up the wi-fi name and password via the company’s Xfinity internet activation service.
View More Comcast is leaking the names and passwords of customers’ wireless routersTile and Comcast team up to help you find lost items with your TV’s voice remote
Lost device finder Tile today is making good on its previously announced partnership with Comcast by introducing a way for Comcast Xfinity customers to locate their Tiles using Comcast’s TV remote, the Xfinity X1 Voice Remote. This is also the first video and voice partnership with Tile, which has been steadily expanding its integrations with […]
View More Tile and Comcast team up to help you find lost items with your TV’s voice remoteComcast will start bundling Netflix into its cable subscriptions
Today’s development in weird potential frenemy relationships is an interesting one with Comcast now planning to bundle Netflix into its cable subscriptions, the companies announced today. Known as the original cord-cutting service, Netflix serves as a hub for not only a ton of original content, but also a huge catalog of movies and shows that […]
View More Comcast will start bundling Netflix into its cable subscriptionsComcast is increasing Xfinity internet speeds in the northeast
If you have Comcast, fasten your seatbelt.
Comcast has announced that it’s rolling out higher internet speed to many of its customers in the northeast. Four of the company’s seven internet tiers will see speed increases: Performance, Performanc…