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  Comcast Corporation - SourceWatch
Comcast Corporation, based in Philadelphia, is the largest cable company in the United States.
Comcast was founded in 1963 by Ralph J. Roberts, Daniel Aaron, and Julian A. Brodsky.
Comcast bought 25% of Group W Cable in 1986, doubling their size.
www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Comcast_Corporation   (273 words)

  
 Comcast biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Comcast, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the largest cable company in the United States.
Comcast owned the majority of the electronic retailer QVC from 1995 until 2004 when its share was sold to Liberty Media.
After the sale of their cellular division to SBC Communications of San Antonio and the acquisition of Greater Philadelphia Cablevision in 1999, Comcast and MediaOne announced a $60 billion merger which did not occur until three years later.
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 Comcast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Comcast Corporation, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the largest cable company in the United States.
Comcast was founded in 1963 by Ralph J. Roberts, Daniel Aaron, and Julian A. Brodsky in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Comcast announced on March 25, 2004 that their new gaming-oriented television network G4 (operated by subsidiary G4 Media, Inc.) would acquire Vulcan Venture's technology-oriented television network TechTV, resulting in a merger.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Comcast.htm   (617 words)

  
 AT&T
The American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation was set up on March 3, 1885 to run the nation's first long-distance telephone network.
RCA staked a position in wireless communication; AT&T pursued the use of tubes in telephone amplifiers.
In 1991, AT&T absorbed NCR Corporation (National Cash Register), but, in 1996, divested it again, and voluntarily demerged most of the AT&T equipment manufacturing operations and the renowned Bell Laboratories to create Lucent Technologies.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/at/at_t.html   (1029 words)

  
 Liberate Technologies; Comcast Corporation; Cox Communications, Inc. :: Double C Technologies, a Joint Venture of ...
Comcast Corporation (http://www.comcast.com/) is the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services.
Comcast also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.
Cox Communications, Inc. (http://www.cox.com/) is a multi-service broadband communications company with approximately 6.6 million total customers, including approximately 6.3 million basic cable subscribers.
sev.prnewswire.com /entertainment/20050407/PHTH03707042005-1.html   (676 words)

  
 AT&T -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
AT&T (formerly an abbreviation for American Telephone and Telegraph) Corporation is an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American ((often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically) telecommunications (An institution created to conduct business) company.
The (An independent governmeent agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio and television and wire and cable and satellite) Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulated all service across state lines.
Armstrong's vision was to change AT&T from a long-distance carrier into a global "telecommunications (A large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods) supermarket", eyeing Internet services for the booming (A company that operates its business primarily on the internet using a URL that ends in `.com') dot-com industry.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/at/at&t2.htm   (1895 words)

  
 Comcast Corporation
Comcast Corporation is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable networks, and in the provision of electronic commerce and programming content.
Comcast Cable is the largest cable company in the United States serving more than 21 million cable subscribers.
About Comcast Comcast Corporation (www.comcast.com), formerly known as AT&T Comcast Corporation, is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable networks, and in the provision of electronic commerce and programming content.
www.scripophily.net /comcor2.html   (782 words)

  
 Comcast Corporation - Fact Sheet - Hoover's
The firm's cable division has 21.5 million subscribers and is the largest such provider in the US (well ahead of #2 Time Warner Cable).
Comcast joined the Sony-led consortium that bought MGM in 2005, investing $300 million.
One third of Comcast is controlled by CEO Brian Roberts, son of founder and former chairman Ralph Roberts.
www.hoovers.com /comcast/--ID__13034--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml   (348 words)

  
 Free Press : New York Times swings late, and misses
What Dao fails to mention is that Thierer’s Cato Institute receives money from Verizon Communications, Time Warner, Inc, SBC Communications, Comcast Corporation and Freedom Communications — all companies seeking to put a stake through the heart of such homegrown broadband systems.
Despite their new roles, Cohen still has the ear of Rendell and likely had a part in persuading the Governor to sign into law Pennsylvania’s House Bill 30, an undemocratic piece of industry-friendly legislation that takes away from Pennsylvania’s citizens the right to choose their own broadband destiny.
A little leg work on Dao’s part would have uncovered to readers an unseemly tale of corporate, government and think tank collusion that lies at the center of a well-funded campaign to paint municipal broadband as an affront to American innovation and free enterprise.
www.freepress.net /news/article.php?id=6795   (594 words)

  
 Comcast Corporation Makes Proposal to Merge With The Walt Disney Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) today announced that it has made a proposal to The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) to merge the two companies in a tax-free transaction.
The combination would create one of the world's leading entertainment and communications companies with an unparalleled distribution platform and an extraordinary portfolio of content assets.
The new company would have a presence in all of the nation's top 25 markets, and would propel broadband forward, expanding current services and inspiring new ones.
www.forrelease.com /D20040211/1032868.html   (220 words)

  
 Comcast Extends National Fiber Infrastructure - knowledgemanagementsurvival.com
About Comcast Corporation Comcast Corporation (http://www.comcast.com) is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable networks and in the provision of programming content.
Comcast Class A common stock and Class A Special common stock trade on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbols CMCSA and CMCSK, respectively.
The company operates one of the largest Internet backbones in the world, is one of the largest providers of wholesale dial-up service to ISPs in North America and is the primary provider of Internet connectivity for millions of broadband subscribers, through its cable and DSL partners.
www.knowledgemanagementsurvival.com /content/view/1375/2   (1501 words)

  
 CableLabs® Issues Final PacketCable™ Feature Set for Residential IP Voice Service
The final feature set consists of two subsets of residential features, basic and extended, as designated by members of PacketCable’s Business Committee, one of two key committees (the other is the Technical Committee), which direct the work priorities, schedules and requirements of the overall PacketCable project.
The Business Committee is composed of CableLabs member representatives from such companies as AT&T Broadband, Charter Communications, Comcast Corporation, Cox Communications, MediaOne, Rogers Cablesystems Ltd., and Time Warner Cable.
Steve Craddock, Vice President of New Media Development for Comcast Corporation and the chairman of the PacketCable Business Committee, said, "The basic and extended features lists are intended for those vendors planning to build residential IP voice products according to PacketCable 1.0 interface specifications.
www.cablelabs.com /news/pr/2000/2000_05_08A.html   (639 words)

  
 p2pnet.net - the original daily p2p and digital media news site
DeLong's examples of 'insights' key to $$$ and include the power of the Internet to "reduce transaction costs" and "enable people to form functioning communities"; the ability of the "human intelligence equivalent of distributed computing" to "create value"; and the realization that digitization "renders marginal costs near zero".
"Where the [open source] movement is producing interesting things, it is doing so with heavy funding from academia, foundations, or corporations, and it is far from clear why such funding is superior in any way - practically or morally - to funding through market processes," he says.
Branding open source as a "socialization of the creative sector," he also questions its goal "to make content free, tax the hardware industry, and then distribute the revenues to the creative community according to some complicated government-run formula.
p2pnet.net /story/644   (424 words)

  
 Oppositions/Responses EchoStar Communications Corporation, General Motors Corporation, and Hughes Electronics ...
EchoStar Communications Corporation, General Motors Corporation, and Hughes Electronics Corporation
Response/Letter filed by Echostar Communications Corporation, General Motors Corporation, and Hughes Electronics Corporation
Opposition to Petitions to Deny and Reply Comments filed by Echostar Communications Corporation, General Motors Corporation, and Hughes Electronics Corporation [Acrobat
www.fcc.gov /transaction/echostar-directv-reply.html   (328 words)

  
 Panasonic Sponsors Consumer HDTV Upgrades for Cable Viewers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
This is one of the largest campaigns around the Olympic Games, and it gives us the opportunity to communicate our enthusiasm about the future of HD as well.
Representing 85% of cable customers in the U.S., the group is comprised of Adelphia Communications, Bright House Networks, Cable One, Cablevision Systems Corporation, Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications, Insight Communications, Mediacom Communications, and Time Warner Cable.
Based in Secaucus, N.J., Matsushita Electric Corporation of America is the principal North American subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.
www.audioholics.com /news/pressreleases/panasoniccableupgrades.php   (626 words)

  
 Hearing Webpage, EchoStar Communications Corporation, General Motors Corporation, and Hughes Electronics Corporation
Opposition To Request For Emergency Prehearing Conference filed by EchoStar Communications Corporation, et al.
Motion To Delete and Clarify Issues filed by EchoStar Communications Corporation, et al.
Opposition To Petition To Intervene And Seek Continuance Of Hearing filed by EchoStar Communications Corporation et al.
www.fcc.gov /transaction/echostar-directv-hearing.html   (673 words)

  
 General Motors Corporation (GMH) Information: Stock Profile, Address, and Executives
General Motors Corporation (GMH) Information: Stock Profile, Address, and Executives
Competitors: Mediacom Communications, Cox Communication Inc., Cablevision Sys Corp, Comcast, Time Warner
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www.investorwords.com /cgi-bin/stocksymbol.cgi?ticker=GMH   (45 words)

  
 E! Networks - International Sales - Fast Facts
Entertainment Television, Inc. is 79.2% owned by a joint venture between subsidiaries of Comcast Communications Corporation and The Walt Disney Company, with Comcast controlling 50.1% and Disney controlling 49.9% of that joint venture.
The remaining 20.8% of the company is owned 50% by Comcast Communications Corporation and 50% by Liberty Media Corporation.
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www.eentertainment.com /intl/sales/facts.html   (77 words)

  
 The Wilkins Group, Inc. :: Telecommunications & Systems Integration :: Welcome
We welcome you to our web site and invite you to visit other areas of our site to learn more about WGI.
Worldwide and nationwide companies such as Marconi Wireless, the State of Texas, Charter Communications, Comcast Corporation, ATandT Solutions and Nokia Communications have turned to WGI for our sophisticated, unparalleled expertise.
The Wilkins Group, Inc. 2004 All Rights Reserved
www.wilkins.com   (118 words)

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