Hulu, which is owned by Disney, News Corporation, and Comcast, has been holding a secret auction to sell itself. Guggenheim Digital, DirecTV, and Time Warner Cable are also in the hunt. Yahoo is reportedly looking to buy video-streaming service Hulu.
DreamWorks Animation joins other media companies like Time Warner, The Chernin Group, Bertelsman, Discovery Communications and Comcast, which have all made significant investments in companies that create, aggregate or service content for YouTube...
Since Hulu features videos from ABC (owned by Disney), FOX (owned by News Corporation), and NBCUniversal (owned by Comcast), maybe the lack of hit shows on TV is to blame for the decline in video ads viewed on the site.
In 2008 Google, Intel, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks invested a combined $3.2 billion. Google will sell its 6.5 percent stake in wireless Internet service provider Clearwire for roughly $47 million (or a discounted stock...
Always worthwhile to watch on Twitter, Comcast cares is the online customer service extension of this large cable, Internet, and phone provider. Comcast's social team is using Google+ to announce corporate activities, show support t there to respond?
Google just released a software update to improve user experience for Google TV users, amid speculation they are planning to take on cable giants such as Comcast by offering paid cable TV services. Comcast and other cable/satellite companies aren’t...
Surely Comcast, recently determined to be the Worst Company in America 2010 by The Consumerist, could be evil enough to do me the favor of looking at keywords in pages and content/context-aware ads I'm already being served (so they don't even have...
Comcast and Black Arrow have combined to start testing dynamic ad insertion into Video on Demand, it was announced today. Comcast has led the industry in creating new opportunities to reach consumers in the on-demand marketplace, and we're excited...
Comcast Playing Hardball with Google? Cable companies accounted for 670,000 of those additional subscriptions. The numbers also seem to support research from the University of Minnesota suggesting that internet traffic growth claims by the cable...
Comcast acquired social networking site Plaxo last month to integrate social network-like features that let viewers share programming in a viral way. A few television and cable companies have taken a page from the online marketing playbook lately.
Plaxo has signed an agreement to be aquired by cable giant Comcast, accoring to a post on the Plaxo blog. The two companies had previously been working together in partnerships, but have now decided that a permanent merger would maximize their...
Intel, Comcast. Bright House Networks and newly spun-off Time Warner Cable. Clearwire isn't the latest Google acquisition. The Internet search giant, though, has joined a group of blue-chip corporate investors in the new Sprint-Nextel bailout of...
They've teamed with Comcast, Intel Capital, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Trilogy Equity Partners to create the new company. Google has been busy on the legal, tech and policy front lately, and there's a primary theme running through...
Comcast in particular has begun to serve coverage of local events on its on-demand programming menu. This is an interesting move for Comcast, in that it brings local video content into more of pull based delivery mechanism, akin to the development...
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSK, CMCSA), the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services, today announced that Comcast Interactive Media and Yahoo! Yahoo and Comcast announced today that they will...
The Wall Street Journal reports (behind pay wall), based on "people familiar with the matter," that cable operator Comcast is talking to Microsoft to replace Google as the search provider on the homepage of its broadband subscribers.
Net (Mayberry USA), American Family Online, AOL, ATT, Authentium, Bell South, Cable Vision, Charter Communications, Comcast Cable Company, Computer Associates, ContentWatch, Cox Communications, EarthLink, Google, Internet4Families, LookSmart...
The way Comcast, my cable company (and Internet provider), has various services priced, I'm very interested in switching. Access to Yahoo's broadband portal and services are now available to customers of Verizon's FiOS (fiber-to-the-premises...
Comcast is forming an Internet division and has named Amy Banse, who had been EVP of content development, to run the show. There's no word yet as to whether the new unit will develop ad-supported content -- Comcast officials I spoke with said it's...
In other talks, Comcast Corp.which sources said was considering a joint deal with Google, is now also seeking a separate arrangement with AOL, regardless of the outcome. The top U.S.cable operator is discussing how it can market its high-speed...
