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Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) is currently the largest Internet service provider and has been irking Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) users over the past few months. Data from Netflix's speed rankings indicates that Comcast's rankings have been falling in recent months. Comcast fell to the number 14 of 17...

U.S. stocks finished higher on Thursday after a bumpy start to the trading session. “People want to buy the dips now because the market made a bottom after Feb. 3,” Donald Selkin, chief market strategist at National Securities Corp. told Bloomberg. “We got very oversold and now it's believed...

Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps does not support the proposed merger between Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC). In a statement to the press, Copps -- who now serves as the special adviser to Common Cause's Media and Democracy Reform Initiative -- said the proposed...

In the world of entertainment-related news stories, it’s what you call a double feature. Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), the largest cable television operator in the U.S. will acquire the second largest, Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC), according to The Wall Street Journal. At the same time, the...

Here's a look at the top tickers trending on StockTwits.com Comcast confirms bid for Time Warner Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) has confirmed reports that it has offered $45.2 billion, or approximately $158.82 a share, to acquire Time Warner Cable. The deal would generate $1.5 billion in savings and...

After a big day Tuesday, the markets took a pause Wednesday. The Dow was down about 31 points to finish the day at 15,993.94.The S&P was down less than one point to 1,819.26 and the NASDAQ was up 10 points to close at 4,201.29. This morning, U.S. markets are weak on European concerns. The...

Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), which bought 900 patents from IBM last week, is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter full-year results Wednesday, February 5, after the closing bell. This will be its first public quarterly earnings report. Investors will be looking for Twitter to have benefited from the...

The earnings crunch is on this week. Highlights will include reports from Amazon.com, Apple, Boeing, Comcast, Facebook, Google and Yahoo! All of them are expected to report year-over-year growth in per-share earnings. But analysts are looking for declining profits from the likes of Caterpillar,...

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) hopes to pull off what Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) could not – streaming live and delayed television, along with DVR, all in one service. Verizon bought out Intel’s internal Media team and its On Cue pay-tv service, which it said it initially planned to integrate with its in-house...

The market picked up where it left off Tuesday and recorded a second straight day of strong gains. The Dow posted a triple digit point gain while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq all gained as the Federal Reserve's Beige Book indicated that economic growth remained healthy in most U.S. regions. The...

After Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) CEO Rob Marcus called a Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) $61.3 billion, $132.50 a share acquisition bid a “low-ball offer,” the nation’s number three cable operator rejected the bid Monday, according to Bloomberg. Instead, Marcus said, the company was...

In a move that could increase competition and give consumers more cable TV choices, Sony (NYSE: SNE) said Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas it planned to start testing a cloud-based TV service in 2014. The company said the yet-to-be-named service would include live...

Like at all the other Wall Street firms, analysts at J.P. Morgan have made their recommendations for 2014. In a research report out this past week, they singled out American Tower (NYSE: AMT), Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) as three of their top picks. Below we take a...

Speculation about so-called over-the-top or streaming cable via the Internet has been around for years. According to some TV-industry experts, it may be about to happen – as early as in 2014. Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA) CEO Philippe Dauman started the ball rolling at the UBS media conference in New...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) seems to have paid a fairly high price for CBS' (NYSE: CBS) hit drama. During a UBS investor conference, CBS Chief Exec Les Moonves said that Amazon paid $700,000 for the digital streaming rights of each episode of Under the Dome. It's not uncommon for TV networks to spend $...