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Comcast 2Gbps fiber available to 18M homes; gigabit cable coming soon (Ars Technica)
-But Philly is not on initial list.

Comcast Earnings On Tap, With Stock Buybacks, Auction Spending Eyed (Investor's Business Daily)

Salesforce.com Names President Keith Block as COO (Re/code)

Salesforce unveils Field Service Lightning, a new cloud service launching in Q2 2016 (VentureBeat)


Fanatics acquires UK soccer e-retailer Kitbag for $17 million (Internet Retailer)

Magic Leap Just Landed an Astounding Amount of VC Money (Wired)
$793.5 million, to be exact. This virtual reality stuff is cool.


Takeaways from Yesterday

Key takeaways from yesterday:

Apple spends a billion per year with Amazon Web Serices (analyst)

Join the crowd: IBM buys dgital marketing agency

NBC expands NFL footprint, to Share 'Thursday Night Football' Rights with CBS

Mark Hurd blasts SAP, as usual

Unisys opens it’s doors to hundreds of new jobs for Augusta