comcast television
Sort by: Relevance | Date
Microsoft makes a Move on web TV
News In April, the American Fork raised $46m from a stellar line-up of investors, including Benchmark Capital, Cisco Systems, Comcast Interactive Media, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Steamboat Ventures. [26 Aug 2008]
Cisco eyes video-on-demand buy
News The 44-person start-up, which is only four years old, already counts the two largest cable companies in the US - Comcast and Time Warner - as customers. But as consumers get more accustomed to watching television when they want, thanks to TiVo and... [22 Aug 2006]
Photos: Top of YouTube - 10 clips taking the net by storm
Photo Brian Finkelstein, a law student at Georgetown University, produced this video of a Comcast technician who came to replace a faulty modem but fell asleep on the couch after spending an hour on hold with the company's central office. [21 Jul 2006]
Cisco splashes $6.9bn for set-top box maker
News Some, including Comcast and Cox Communications, have struck a deal with Sprint Nextel to also offer mobile phone service. Cable operators and phone companies see these devices as the cornerstone of their strategies to deliver new services, such as... [21 Nov 2005]
Apple unveils video iPod
News Launch and Comcast On Demand. Media Center PCs plug directly into a television or a television input device such as a cable TV box, allowing the devices to record television shows much like a TiVo digital video recorder, for example. [13 Oct 2005]
Gates: Now he's after your TV
News Gates gave his remarks at a show panel on Monday morning, along with executives from several other cable and internet companies including Viacom, AOL Time Warner and Comcast. At a US television industry trade show, Bill Gates outlined his company's... [10 Jun 2003]
AT&T warns of falling revenues
News The one positive note on the books was the continued rising revenues at AT&T Broadband - the unit which is being sold off to US cable operator Comcast for $72m. Revenues for the first quarter were down 8.4 per cent, ahead of analysts' more... [25 Apr 2002]
Microsoft set to give AT&T $5bn
News AT&T is also expecting final offers on Monday for its broadband cable television unit from cable TV companies Cox communications, Comcast Corporation and AOL Time Warner. Microsoft is expected to invest up to $5bn in AT&T on Monday, the... [30 Nov 2001]
AT&T chiefs ponder spin-offs
News Despite the reported interest, the only firm offer AT&T has so far received has been the rejected $53bn offer from Comcast for its broadband division in July. AT&T executives are expected to meet today to consider options for selling off... [20 Sep 2001]
Disney eyes AT&T Broadband
News AT&T last month rejected a $58bn hostile takeover bid from rival Comcast and opted to put the division up for sale. Microsoft is thought to have held discussions with Disney about a joint venture in the cable television giant, The Times reports. [21 Aug 2001]
AT&T hit by falling sales
News Earlier this month AT&T was subject to a $40bn offer for its cable television division from rival Comcast. AT&T, one of the world's largest telcos, is blaming a decline in its long-distance telephony business for falling sales. [24 Jul 2001]
UK reaches digital TV maturity: US next for Pace
News But with the US audience already acclimatised to paying for their television and contracts in place with cable operator Comcast and media giant Time Warner Pace Micro is well positioned to break into the US market. [10 Jul 2001]
Comcast bids $44.5bn for AT&T Broadband
News US cable television giant Comcast has offered AT&T a whopping $44.5bn for its broadband division. The all-stock bid would involve Comcast taking on $13.5bn of AT&T's outstanding debts, but does call into question the US telecoms giant's... [09 Jul 2001]
Keep updated for stories matching comcast television via RSS
