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Comcast and Twitter partnership will let you watch TV through tweets [Comcast Roundup]

"Comcast customers will soon be able to access some television shows from Twitter messages about those shows, the two companies jointly announced on Wednesday."

  • Through Twitter Partnership, Comcast Hopes to Encourage TV Viewing [New York Times] “Comcast customers will soon be able to access some television shows from Twitter messages about those shows, the two companies jointly announced on Wednesday.” All of this is coming ahead of a highly publicized IPO from Twitter.
  • Case on Comcast cable customers won’t go away [Philadelphia Inquirer] “The plaintiffs’ attorneys, led by Barry Barnett of the Susman Godfrey firm in Dallas, say they will attempt for a third time to certify a class of damaged Comcast cable customers – promising, if Judge John R. Padova of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia agrees, more years of litigation in an epic case. It was first filed in December 2003.”
  • Comcast purchases Universal City tower for about $420 million [LA Times] “With an eye toward consolidating its Los Angeles-area operations, Comcast Corp. has purchased 10 Universal City Plaza, the tallest office building in the San Fernando Valley, for its NBCUniversal division.”
  • Telemundo head out at Comcast’s NBCUniversal [Philadelphia Inquirer] “The head of the Comcast Corp.-owned Telemundo network, Emilio Romano, is leaving the company in the latest shuffle of NBCUniversal executives.”
Companies: Comcast / Twitter

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