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Netflix looks to hook subscribers with 'Arrested Development'

...With 29.2 million U.S. subscribers ? far more than the 21.9 million TV subscribers that leading cable provider Comcast Corp. has ? Netflix has already reshaped home entertainment.The service is encouraging more people to rely on Netflix...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-05-24/netflix-looks-hook-subscri
Comcast to buy GE's stake in NBCUniversal for $16.7 billion, years early

...advantage of low borrowing costs and what CEO Brian Roberts called a "very attractive price."At the same time, Comcast Corp. raised its annual dividend 20 percent to 78 cents per share and vowed to buy back $2 billion in shares this year...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-02-12/comcast-buy-ges-stake-nbcu
Comcast proposes to buy Walt Disney Co.

...surprise move, cable TV giant Comcast Corp. proposed early Wednesday to buy...recent quarter. Key events in Comcast Corp.'s growth: 1963 - Ralph Roberts...Feb. 11, 2004 - Cable TV giant Comcast Corp. offers to buy The Walt Disney...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/02/12/bus_404285.shtml
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Privacy invaded

Comcast Corp. would still be collecting information about the Internet travels of its customers, if not for an Associated Press report that...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2002/02/16/op_333852.shtml
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Comcast launches scary film network PHILADELPHIA - On Halloween, Comcast Corp., in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Lionsgate, will unveil a horror-movie network called FearNet. Fans...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/10/31/bus_102547.shtml
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Comcast sells AT&T block

PHILADELPHIA - Cable giant Comcast Corp. sold a 42 million-share block of AT&T Corp. - about half its position in the telecommunications company - to Salomon Smith...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2002/05/23/bus_346807.shtml
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Comcast says it will immediately stop recording customer Web browsing

WASHINGTON -- Comcast Corp., the nation's third-largest cable company, pledged Wednesday to immediately stop recording the Web browsing activities...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2002/02/14/tec_333473.shtml
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Comcast loses millions during rebuilding plan PHILADELPHIA -Comcast Corp. reported a $106.8 million loss for the third quarter Wednesday, less than analysts expected, as it spent heavily on a rebuilding...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2001/11/01/bus_322922.shtml
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Cable to head South

Augusta's largest cable TV provider, Comcast Corp., will begin carrying the Turner South channel starting today, a Comcast spokesman announced Thursday. Philadelphia-based...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2000/08/18/bus_295838.shtml
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AT&T sets rival bid for MediaOne

...for MediaOne, the nation's fourth-largest cable-television company, hoping to thwart a merger agreement that Comcast Corp. and MediaOne reached two months ago. AT&T said its rival bid, a combination of cash and stock, exceeded the value...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1999/04/23/tec_259756.shtml
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