Comcast Center’s $200M property tax assessment, less than half its 2007 sales price of $500M+ [Comcast Roundup]

‘20%’ tax cut for Center City office towers [Philadelphia Inquirer] “Some of the “market values” look lowball. 1701 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, the Liberty Property Trust-built Comcast Center tower, last changed hands in a 2007 transaction for more than $500 million, or $400+ a square foot, but is listed at around $200 million, or under $180 a square foot, in the new AVI.”

Warning System Launched for Movie, Music Pirates [Wall Street Journal] “AT&T Inc., Cablevision Systems Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc, Verizon Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp. have put into place an alerts system with “six strikes,” with various degrees of penalty for subscribers accused of piracy.” The Wall Street Journal added that Comcast “will ask repeat offenders to watch an educational video.”

Comcast bans gun ads — sort of [MSN Money] “The company’s new policy against firearms advertising applies only to local spots on national cable channels. Ads will linger on cable and newspapers.”

Analysts praise Comcast’s deal to buy up NBCUniversal [Philadelphia Inquirer]

Comcast’s Business Services unit not exactly growing Slowsky [Philadelphia Business Journal] “On my blog on Comcast last week, I said that Business Services had the highest growth rate — 34.2 percent, pushing it to $2.4 billion in revenue — of any of Comcast’s cable businesses last year. So far this year, it doesn’t appear to be slowing down.”

Top 50 biggest employers in Philadelphia and its surrounding counties [Technically Philly] “Comcast is the 17th largest employer in Philadelphia as of the second quarter in 2012, according to data from the state. The communications giant also made lists for Delaware County (#49), Bucks County (#39), Montgomery County (#35) and Chester County (#22).”

Comcast launches app store for biz customers [GigaOM]

Former Obama advisor argues Comcast is a threat to the open Internet [Ars Technica] “Crawford’s skepticism of the Comcast deal is well-founded, but her broader critique of the modern media landscape misses the mark. The sorry state of the residential broadband market is a genuine problem that calls for creative policy solutions, but the wireless, media, and online sectors of the economy are more competitive—and more consumer-friendly—than she admits.”