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The $85 billion merger between AT&T and Time Warner was approved by U.S District Court Judge Richard Leon on Tuesday, a landmark ruling expected to pave the way for other media… Read More
Oath — the combined Yahoo-Verizon entity — is closing that creaky door for the last time today on AOL Instant Messenger, shutting down a mainstay of millions of millennial childhoods.… Read More
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to prevent AT&T from gobbling up Time Warner for $85.4 billion, claiming the deal would “substantially lessen competition, resulting in higher… Read More
AT&T’s proposed $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner would combine a telecom giant with a media behemoth — giving the wireless company and Internet provider ownership of CNN, HBO, Warner Bros.… Read More
In a massive merger that brings together top telecom and media assets, AT&T today announced its plans to acquire Time Warner Inc. for $107.50 per share, a deal valued at… Read More
Say goodbye to the days of waiting hours around the house for the cable technician to show up at an uncertain moment. Time Warner Cable is rolling out a new… Read More
Charter Communications today confirmed a deal to acquire Time Warner Cable for $55 billion — or nearly $79 billion, including debt — following Comcast’s unsuccessful $45 billion Time Warner acquisition bid. Along… Read More
The monumental merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable may never happen. Bloomberg reports that Comcast plans to drop its $45.2 billion deal to acquire Time Warner Cable after regulators expressed concern… Read More
Holy crap, cable giants! Get a hold of yourselves already. Today in unbelievable of unbelievable, a Time Warner customer got a letter addressed to her replacing her first name with… Read More
Next year will mark the first time you will be able to watch Game of Thrones without a cable subscription. HBO CEO Richard Plepler said during an investor presentation that… Read More
Amazon’s contract battle with Hachette has been getting lots of attention, with the Seattle company delaying book shipments and declining to take pre-orders for popular Hachette titles amid negotiations with the publisher.… Read More
Television is much more than traditional cable or broadcast these days. That is one of Comcast’s biggest challenges, and it’s also one of the company’s primary justifications for the proposed… Read More
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… Read More
Comcast and Time Warner will end their wholesale agreements with Clearwire, part of a deal that the cable companies struck today to sell wireless spectrum to Verizon. Cnet reports that… Read More