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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Comcast Q1 profit grows 10% to $2.06B, NBCUniversal revenue slips 4% to $6.6B — Comcast Q1 Profit Rises, Co. Will Focus on X1 — Media giant Comcast said net income in its fiscal first quarter grew 10% owing to more consumers buying high-speed Internet and business services …
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Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
In earnings call, Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts says company is disappointed over failed TWC merger but has moved on — Roberts: Customer Service, Execution Top Priorities — Says Disappointed TWC Terminated, Company Has ‘Moved On’ — Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts …
Tali Arbel / Associated Press:
Comcast now has more Internet subs than TV subs, company exec Neil Smit says in earnings call — COMCAST NOW HAS MORE INTERNET THAN CABLE CUSTOMERS — NEW YORK (AP) — Just before its $45 billion deal with Time Warner Cable collapsed over regulators' fears about a giant cable company's control …
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Periscope Piracy Sets Up Grudge Match: Hollywood vs. Twitter — Dick Costolo's triumphant tweet could come back to haunt him — Forget Mayweather-Pacquiao. There's a more interesting fight brewing between Twitter and Hollywood. — The piracy of Saturday's welterweight boxing championship enabled …
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Christina Warren / Mashable:
How Periscope users experienced the readily-available pirate streams of the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight last night — I watched the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight on Periscope and saw the future — Like millions of others across the world, I watched the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight in a living room surrounded by other boxing fans.
Alex Stedman / Variety:
Service issues hit Comcast, TWC, DirecTV, and Charter ahead of big boxing match
Service issues hit Comcast, TWC, DirecTV, and Charter ahead of big boxing match
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Micah Singleton / The Verge:
DOJ looking at Apple as it is pushing record labels to ditch free Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch — Apple pushing music labels to kill free Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch — The Department of Justice is looking closely into Apple's business practices in relation …
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
Vice TV Network Has Already Sold Three Years' Worth of Ad Time, CEO Says — Vice co-founder and CEO Shane Smith. Credit: Christopher Lane for Ad Age — Vice Media has rung up a series of impressive deals in the past year or so, lining up a $250 million investment from A&E Networks …
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Abid Rahman / Hollywood Reporter:
Vice Media Revenue on Track to Reach Close to $1 Billion This Year
Vice Media Revenue on Track to Reach Close to $1 Billion This Year
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Erin Griffith / Fortune:
How companies like BuzzFeed, Vice, and Tastemade are aggressively expanding into online video, experimenting with the format to attract viewers and advertisers — The (very) big fight for the small screen — A rising class of Internet video companies is challenging the supremacy of broadcast TV …
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
NewFronts: Fullscreen Acquires Social Media Studio McBeard — Fullscreen is making the push into social content with the acquisition of digital studio McBeard. — The 100-person, Los Angeles-based company is joining Fullscreen to grow its ability to develop, produce and distribute social content …
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Freelancers often face contract clauses that leave them liable for legal claims — Indemnity clauses leave freelancers open to lawsuits — Forbes contributor Dolia Estevez is on her own. — Two years ago, Estevez identified a former spokesperson for Mexican president Felipe Calderon as one of the …
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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Digital publishers like AOL and Lin Digital try to grab TV morning show ad dollars with morning shows of their own — Digital players want a slice of the morning show pie — At this year's “Newfront” presentations, traditional and digital publishers have pushed video hard …
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Fox Business reporter Charles Gasparino claims that Michael Bloomberg is interested in the New York Times, would pay $5B — Michael Bloomberg Would Pay $5 Billion for NY Times — Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com — It has been about three months since the media buzzed …
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