This 10-year-old cable company just raised $1B (and no one really knows them)

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I’ll be honest, I’d never heard of WaveDivision Holdings until this week when a longtime Seattle area PR veteran reached out to me about the Kirkland company with this pitch. “I am doing some work with a Seattle-area company that has very quietly grown to 800+ employees, is profitable and has a significant (hundreds of… Read More…

Clearwire shares sink as Time Warner plans to sell stake

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Shares of Clearwire slumped more than eight percent today after Time Warner Cable announced plans to sell its stake in the Bellevue broadband wireless provider. The Associated Press reports that Time Warner Cable plans to sell its 7.8 percent stake, perhaps as early as Monday. The news was first reported in a SEC filing Friday, and shares… Read More…

Comcast unveils $4.99 per month Streampix service, taking aim at Netflix

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Comcast this week is rolling out a new video streaming service called Streampix, an offering that will be available only to subscribers of the giant cable company. The offering, which includes access to past seasons of TV shows such as 30 Rock, Grey’s Anatomy, Lost and The Office as well as movies like Brokeback Mountain,… Read More…

Google’s bigger game: The subplot behind the Motorola acquisition

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“Having at least one area where we can do integrated hardware and software and learn from that probably produces better products.” – Google’s Eric Schmidt, speaking about the company’s Motorola acquisition yesterday. Guest Commentary: Many people in the tech industry would assume that Schmidt was thinking about mobile phones when he said that. But the… Read More…

Comcast rolls out 105 Mbps ‘Extreme’ Internet service

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Do you really need download speeds of more than 100 megabits per second in your house? (Come on, really?) At any rate, if the answer is truly yes, Comcast has a solution for you, if you’re willing to add a sizable premium to your already sizable monthly bill. The company this morning announced the availability… Read More…

Comcast opens up TV Japan to digital cable viewers for earthquake coverage

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You can tune into CNN, MSNBC, Northwest Cable News or any number of cable channels for the latest news on the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan. But if you want to get a Japanese perspective on the tragedy, Comcast early this morning unencrypted the signal for TV Japan. That means digital cable customers can… Read More…