Why the Comcast-Time Warner Deal Is Far More Dangerous Than You Think – Comcast deal a blow to Apple TV and Netflix

The Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal is bigger than you think.

In agreeing to pay $45 billion for Time Warner Cable, Comcast hopes to create not only an enormous cable TV provider, but the largest broadband internet provider in the United States and a company that controls about half of all “triple play” services, which bundle cable TV and broadband alongside internet-based telephone connections.

And that only begins to describe the magnitude of the deal.

By Cade Metz

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/business/2014/02/comcasts-45bn-time-warner-buy-change-everything/

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Apple investors and Netflix fans better start writing to their elected officials in Washington to oppose Comcast’s $45 billion acquisition offer for rival Time Warner Cable.

The reason?

John Shinal

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/shinal/2014/02/13/comcast-time-warner-cable-apple-tv-netflix-john-shinal/5454055/

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If a Cable Giant Becomes Bigger

By THE WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD

Regulators might be tempted to agree with Comcast that its proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion in stock poses no threat to competition and would actually benefit consumers by giving the company more resources to invest in new services. But government officials should not accept that argument without conducting a thorough investigation into what effect a merger between the country’s two largest cable companies would have on the media and the Internet.

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Comcast CEO has vision beyond cable and broadband

After working his way up through Comcast, CEO Brian Roberts looks to make the company a multimedia superpower.

Mike Snider, USA TODAY

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/02/13/comcast-ceo-brian-roberts-profile/5452969/