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Comcast No Longer Tech Industry’s Biggest Spender on Lobbying

Comcast is no longer the tech industry’s biggest spender on lobbying. That distinction now belongs to Google. Comcast is in second place — by a […]

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Morning Headlines: Comcast Announces It Will Keep Its New Tower For Itself

Have you seen the interior renderings of the Comcast Innovation and Technology Center? Pretty swanky stuff, right? Well, it seems some tenants that had been slated to […]

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Comcast to Stream Super Bowl Online for Free

This is why big giant events like the Super Bowl mean so much to the networks that air them — and the companies that own […]

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Obama Wants to Help Create Comcast’s Competitors

If Comcast really is militantly left-wing, why on earth is President Obama making life so hard for the company? He already came out in favor […]

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What If Comcast Was Your Boyfriend?

We pointed to this video in our morning Comcast Today report, but thought it funny enough that it deserves its own post. Ladies and gentlemen: […]

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Conservatives Launch Attack on Comcast

Is Comcast America’s “most-powerful and militant left-wing force?” Pennsylvanians who watched Comcast’s David Cohen raise money for Gov. Tom Corbett might not think so, but […]

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Opposition to Comcast Merger Still Grows

The Federal Communications Commission may be in the home stretch of reviewing Comcast’s proposed merger with Time Warner Cable, but formal opposition to the deal […]

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All Comcast Eyes on New York

It looks like New York is going to drive a tough bargain if Comcast wants that state’s approval to complete a merger with Time Warner […]

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More About Comcast’s “VIP List”

We told you last month about the report of a Comcast program that offered, ahem, more attentive customer service to politicians, journalists, and other bigwigs […]

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FCC Chairman Hints He’ll Back Net Neutrality

We already knew the FCC will vote on net neutrality rules next month. Now we have a better idea what the result will be: An […]

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Comcast Says It Will Offer Super-Fast “Gigabit” Service This Year

Comcast’s Internet service is about to get blazingly fast, Gizmodo reports: In an exciting if suspicious announcement today, Comcast, everybody’s least favorite company, just told […]

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ESPN Unbundles from Cable. Can Comcast Compete?

One thing that’s kept cable from going the way of the music industry in recent years, observers agree, is this: Hulu, Netflix, and other mainstream […]

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FCC Plans Net Neutrality Vote in February

Welcome to the new year, Comcast followers! It’s going to be a big one for the company. It will or won’t get its merger with […]

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David Cohen: Not Quite on the Hot Seat

Comcast’s David Cohen doesn’t quite make the list of media executives said by NYT columnist David Carr to be on the hot seat in the […]

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How Comcast Makes Friends and Influences People

Long story at the Washingtonian over the weekend about how David Gregory,the former anchor of NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday-morning news snow, lost that gig. […]