-- Carl Icahn is sooo over Yahoo, which holds its annual meeting today. Expect chief executive Jerry Yang to face shareholder wrath, all the same. [Bloomberg]-- The F.C.C. is set to punish Comcast today for violating federal internet policy, as GOP minority leader John Boehner scolds the commission for being [...]
The country's fragile economy and growing obsession with wireless have snuck up on the bundled triple play of services the cable industry designed as its salvation. How much damage ensues will be a matter of how proactive cable operators are in securing their continued dominance.[...]
Media stocks have been hammered for months, but for the second day in a row, a cable system company has strongly bucked that trend. Even with Cablevision System Corp.'s second-quarter profits in free-fall, its stock soared a major 15% in midday trading. Part of the huge swing was the inclusion [...]
Today the FCC took issue with how Comcast managed its network, essentially it looked at the packets and blocked or throttled those related to peer-to-peer applications on the upload side. If you thought warrantless wiretapping was intrusive, think about all the information you send and receive via data packets. We've [...]