Comcast Roundup: Al Franken wants money for fighting NBC deal, xfinity ad and More

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DEFINITE READS

• The Atlantic Wire suggests that like Google Buzz is an attack on social media companies like Facebook, the search engine’s announcement that it will offer super fast broadband networks to select municipalities is an attack on telecommunications companies like Comcast.
• The Business Insider reports that Senator Al Franken used his vocal opposition to the Comcast-NBC deal to garner campaign donations.

Below, an anti-Comcast pink dragon, the first xfinity TV ad and more.

MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME

• As shared in our VC roundup, The Philadelphia Business Journal reports that Comcast Interactive Capital led a $16 million investment in a New York-based online video advertising company TidalTV.
• Stop the Cap suggests Comcast is part of a ‘broadband stimulus blockade.’

GIVE A GLANCE

• Philebrity blames anger over Comcast for this fiery dragon snow sculpture spotted on Fourth Street.
• Barrons reports that Comcast shares are trading ‘modestly higher’ after a Citigroup analyst added them to a top pick list.
• The Comcast corporate blog shares its new xfinity (details on product here) ad that debuted during the Olympics — which airs on its likely future subsidiary. See it below.

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