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...But that’s what happened to the billionaire US cable cowboy in Switzerland this week....
...It was not difficult to find admirers of Vingroup, whose logo — a V-shaped yellow bird against a red background — shares the colours of the national flag....
...(FT, NYT) In the news M&A m&ania — Comcast and Takeda’s big moves Comcast, America’s largest cable company, has made a formal £12.50-a-share offer for Sky that values it at £22bn ($31bn), setting the stage...
...Corporate giants including US cable group Comcast, wireless provider T-Mobile and Japan’s pharmaceutical maker Takeda reached for M&A to head off competitive threats and expand their businesses....
...“All the broad themes of the Trump rally — deregulation; infrastructure; tax reform; domestic v international — seem almost tailor-made to trigger a cable rally,” wrote analysts at Moffett Nathanson....
...Comcast-Dreamworks talks Comcast is in talks to buy DreamWorks Animation for more than $3bn, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that could make the cable giant a rival to Walt Disney...
...But Fusion has struggled to build significant viewership for its cable channel and is not carried by Comcast....
...One of the big mysteries in corporate America is whether telecom regulators will allow the Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger, announced in February, to close....
...This article has been amended since first publication to show correct figures for the chart labelled “Traditional v online TV”. Back to the top of the page...
...(FastFT) Comcast “submitted a lengthy document to federal regulators to justify its $45 billion proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable....
...In the case, known as Comcast v....
...Rising ratings, thanks to sports, have enabled them to begin following the model of pay-TV cable networks such as ESPN, demanding fees from cable and satellite operators such as Comcast in the US that carry...
...In Comcast v. FCC – the “network neutrality” case – the agency was found to be making up the law as it went....
...Wolf was a consultant to Comcast when it bought AT&T’s cable television systems and to Rupert Murdoch during his drawn-out battle to buy DirecTV....
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