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Analyze This: And now
Yahoo is a takeover target as the stock jumped on the news the company’s chairman called the CEO to fire her (not online? or was it a VoIP call? will the chairman fire himself - as
Business Insider says he should?). ---
Plum TV is on the ropes. --- Canada’s
Globe & Mail reports
Rogers Communications wants to get into the mobile payment arena applying to incorporate as a small in-house bank.
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Service: A
Bright House "software glitch" caused an outage that left a million or so without cable, broadband or VoIP most of yesterday with some not back on late last evening. The report from
tbo.com is
here. "Bright House engineers ultimately isolated the problem to a line of software within a piece of equipment that cut off service to much of the company's Tampa and Orlando service areas, Bright House spokesman
Joe Durkin said."
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Rules & Regs:
Politico reports
Sinclair is running an ad (
Leave Free TV Alone) charging that
Congress is going to “seize local spectrum and sell it to others who will charge subscribers a monthly fee. This could mean no more local news, sports or weather, or no more emergency warnings when severe weather strikes or a catastrophe occurs or if a child goes missing.” No comment in the ad about retransmission fees.
CTIA says the ad is misleading.
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In the Courts:
AT&T and the
Justice Dept. are scheduled for a court date on Wed. the 21st before
Judge Ellen Huvelle.
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Up, Over & Down There:
Liberty Global’s
Mike Fries will unveil Horizon @
IBC tomorrow ... nice STB (he previewed it at the
Cable Center earlier).
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